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Al’s Geek Lab BBS

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address
bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2323
listed by
Alistair Ross
runs
Mystic · SSH, Telnet
where
Wellington, New Zealand
ssh
bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2222
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Al’s Geek Lab BBS: its own screen, 23 rows

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

·········· unrated 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.

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their screens

Al’s Geek Lab BBS: screen 1, 23 rows
screen 1 · 80x23 · seen

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.