> Bruce Esquibel (Dr. Ripco) Died

https://archive.org/details/bbs-2004012 … Tape+1.avi

VAXXECUTED!!!

Spanky wrote:

If you know about Ripco then you know.

https://restincode.com/memorial.html?name=bruceesquibel

He ran his BBS on an Apple II. I remember buying an Apple IIe in 1994 so I could get on BBSs. I couldn't hardly find any software for it so I played games like Frogger.

In 1995 I bought an IBM PC and everyone I knew gave me free software it was so abundant. It was much easier getting on BBSs with that thing.

wrote:

It said he turned his BBS on full time in December 1983. Damn! That's early. He even started part-time before that. I didn't realize BBSs were on that early. The earliest I ever got on the Internet was 1992 through Compuserve. My roommate and I looked up plane fares which tapped into Sabre's system. That's the same system travel agents used.

I first went to Ripco in 1986. 1200 baud modem.

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Wow! What type of PC did you use back then?

My first modem in 1994 was 2400. I remember it took almost a minute to paint the main BBS page.



I downloaded simple jpg porn files and it took 20 minutes.



Then in 1995 I could afford a 14.4 modem and zoom!, the page took less than 5 seconds to paint.

I had an Atari 1040ST.

Smoker. 

SamplesBoi wrote:

My first modem was 300bps.  You are all posers.

Mine too. Connected to my Vic20.

Sockpuppet wrote:

I find his articulation pretty interesting in contrast to his massive Chicago accent.

I noticed that too. Guy seems pretty relatable to us old computer nerds.

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Thanks for the reply. You must have been a young whippersnapper back then. This guy talks about some BBS SYSOPS were still in junior high when they started their boards.

I first used a computer at age 9 in 1980. I think I got my Vic20 for Christmas in 1983. So I would have been 12.

Stereo?