My first computer an Atari 800 had a 300 baud acostic modem which was a pain cause you couldn't auto dial or answer, so when I got a 1200 baud that could auto answer I decided to create my own BBS. At first I would set it up using my parents phone number and only have it running on off hours, but that did't work out to well. My parents didn't like getting random modem calls all the time, so with my paper route money I got my own phone number and my BBS was up and running 24x7. I ran the BBS for about 3 years, but when I moved over to an "IBM compatible computer" I shut it down.
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