Personal

Tracing back to what would be a defining moment in my life is the Atari XM-301 300 baud modem for the old Atari 8-bit systems. Of course I didn't know it at the time, but there was no turning back once I had called my first BBS and chatted with the SysOp. I would eventually run a BBS a few years later off a floppy disk on my Atari 1040ST, once I had my own phone line. I still remember our old main house line number in Rockford and the BBS phone number. I still have the US Robotics modem that ran the last version of my BBS, and it still works, and still has the 'Not for Resale' badge on it due to obtaining it through the BBS SysOp program way back when.