The other day, my wife walked into the room and gently brushed my shoulder—that was enough of a distraction to mess things up royally during a chat with a C64 Snobsoft user.
I managed to screw things up so badly the BBS nearly froze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YSXtCVBpd0
By the time I got everything back on track, the user had already vanished. Luckily, we’d exchanged contact info beforehand, so I was able to reach him via email—through that modern internet everyone’s always talking about—since he wasn’t yet a registered user on the 40-year-old C64 BBS. I hadn’t made space for him yet in the bursting-at-the-seams user list.
So what kind of distractions did you have during your BBS sessions? Or while gaming on the C64 (or similar computers)? Did the dog show up? Unexpected visits from aliens? Spill the beans—I want to hear it all.
I also talk about the hardware dying off in the video—something I’ve experienced firsthand over the past few months. After 40 years, are our beloved vintage computers and peripherals reaching the end of their lives?
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