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Al’s Geek Lab BBS
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on The Vortex’s BBS list
- address
- bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2323
- listed by
- Alistair Ross
- runs
- Mystic · SSH, Telnet
- where
- Wellington, New Zealand
- ssh
- bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2222
- added by
- bbs hq on The Vortex, not yet verified as its sysop
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The author of the popular YouTube documentary “Back to the BBS” now has a complimentary BBS!
Features:
Curated retro-computing content including retro games, music, apps as well as more modern stuff for your retro computing purposes.
MRC Inter-BBS chat
Some great message network groups for all your geeky discussions (fsxNet, tqwNet, RetroNet and ArakNet)
Great extra add-on mods, including:
CoinInfo (a custom mod I wrote to help you trade your cryptocurrencies!),
xqtr’s weather,
Phenom Production’s CoronaTracker and RomHacker,
Wikipedia, Gopher/bbs-www,
RCS’ lastcalls and much more!
File sharing networks including Phat* Anonymous Archivers and ArchaicNet.
Games including Richard Orr’s ]Baud, BBSLink inter-bbs gaming leagues, all the popular games including LORD, Tradewars etc.
Work is being made on it all the time, so come on down and get “Back to the BBS!”
website: www.alsgeeklab.com || youtube: youtube.com/alsgeeklab || telnet: bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2323 || ssh: bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2222
tqwnet: 1337:2/104 || Araknet 10:103/16 || Retronet 80:505/18 || fsxNet: 21:1/126
Al’s Geek Lab Advert
is it answering
answered 38 of 62 checks · reliability 69% · answered in 262ms last time · 1 miss in a row
one mark a dial, oldest first — green answered, red did not. 62 kept, since ; the directory calls every board every night and remembers six months of them.
the score
nobody has scored it yet
six axes, one to ten, rated here or inside the BBS list on The Vortex — one score, either way. a rating fades with age, so come back and rate it again in a season.
sign in to rate it here — with a BBS HQ account, or your Vortex handle.
their screens

every screen this board has drawn for a caller before login — 1 so far, since . a board that changes its welcome art keeps every screen here; one we stop meeting on our regular calls is let go after three visits and six months. the art belongs to its sysop and its artists.