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official tour t shirt i think motel west was one of the few if not only bbs in the nation to go this far with its true fandom the link to the t shirt back side with complete as in completely bogus concert dates is in the comments to this post btw the numbers in the parenthesis is the population of the city at that time posted by tm cavalier at 8 10 pm 6 comments labels callout t shirt tiger virtual band wold devastation the perpetual story an interesting phenomena on a few bbs systems was called a perpetual or never ending story so how does this work picture a bbs message system similar to a blog or threaded discussion board today the only real difference is that only one person can be on and read at a time the person who is online reads the story and chooses to whether or not to add to the story the rules changed based on what bbs you were on typically most bbs s had the unwritten rule that you don t kill off any of the characters thankfully the motel west didn t have that rule what is the benefit of a perpetual story well if you have a lot of quality contributors it becomes a funny mish mash of how do i get the character out of this one you are basically put in a position where you write the next chapter of the story for good or for evil every once in a while you would get a person who didn t care much about the story and would undoubtedly end it someting like this and then winefred pulled out a shotgun and killed everyone the end or another way some people tried to kill the story was mr coffee pulled out a nucluear device and pushed the button boom the end and the classic way to end a storyline in the 1980 s was of course the dallas method and then frank zelba rolled over and woke up looking around the room he in amazement he announces it was all a dream it was a great way many of us armchair authors could chime in using our mad writing skilz and show the world that we are the next heinlein herbert or adams in that 20 or so minutes we controlled the world and the crazy antics of our friends as we all ended up in the story in one part or another as mentioned in earlier posts our real life exploits frequently became subject fodder for our story board the real time multi user aspect of the internet makes this type of perpetual story more difficult to execute today plus there would be many more literary assassins who would try to sabotage the story than in years past back then we didn t need to worry about spambots posting about little blue pills the next hot stock tip or the latest weight loss craze anyways heres to those made up gems of old were you could steal your friends girlfriend his brothers cherry red convertible and save the story all in the same post isn t that right frank s car lioness anybody posted by tm cavalier at 7 42 pm 4 comments labels bbs message perpetual story tuesday july 21 2009 just slow not abandoned i was reading an article the other day about how most of the blogosphere was abandoned how could you tell if your blog was abandoned well the blog didn t have a post in the last 6 months its most likely a goner i have a few more stories up my sleeve isp conspiracy and hardware data compression modem initialization strings why amd chips are now worse than intel chips ok just kidding actually there is the story of the origins of sanctuary as a name and my forays into d d the tale of the boy who asked 13 girls on a date in 1 week the adventures of working as a door greeter at the motel west and finally there is the parable of the 7 11 ice machine and who knows maybe if we really get bored we can discuss the merits of the hayes at command set and how your dial up isp could have given you 4x the dial up speed with very minimal effort and not much real cost to themselves so when i finished unpacking boxes i ll sit back down and continue this slow process through the 1980 s and other fun oh and if your interested in the story of the house in the picture just click here i m sure they own the legal copyright to the picture posted by tm cavalier at 9 39 pm 4 comments labels abandoned not dead monday february 9 2009 it s 2am do you know where your restraunt is something everyone needs is a place to hang out with the crew of the motel west it was either denny s or hq evidently there was a strong pizza making theme with the crew of the motel and many of them worked late at their job making delivering pizzas well where do you hang out after work when after work means after midnight usually the answer denny s no id s no 2 drink minimum and almost no drunks hitting on you and what made denny s better was that we had a custom waiter that was always there mikey he was a great waiter he took care of us even if all we did was come in and order 5 coffee s and a coke the occasional sugar packet fight didn t seem to bother him at all probably because he new we would clean up the mess we met many members of the motel west at denny s that was the neutral location that we always chose to have people meet us f2f face to face some people jumped in and said hello and i m sure some people walked in saw us and ordered a coffee to go oh well their loss denny s became the virtual extension of the bbs or i guess it would be better to say that the motel west became the virtual extension of the nights of coffee at denny s what happened at denny s usually appeared on the bbs later and things that happened on the bbs were usually argued in detail at denny s could it have been village inn or someplace else possibly but village inn didn t have mikey and visits to denny s when mikey wasn t there were not always the best some waitresses did not quite understand our group and were a little hesitant but hey who wouldn t be with our group so here s to denny s the virtual next door neighboor to the motel west posted by tm cavalier at 6 15 pm 10 comments labels denny s mikey motel west friday february 6 2009 as the bbs software churns the nice thing about the colossus bbs software was that it was very configurable but there were some things about it i didn t like namely you had to pay for it eventually and i didn t write it now being a teenager the not wanting to pay for it is something that nearly everyone can understand one of the killer aspects of the on line world was that there were a lot of free software that you could download most of the free software was legitimate but there were sites out there that allowed you to download commercial software the biggest problem with downloading software was the speed as we ve commented before we were cruising around at 300 baud remember that s only 30 characters per second i significant piece of commercial software could have been 180kb which would only take you 6 000 seconds to download that s 1 hour 40 minutes of download time with other overhead this was easily going to be 2 hours now why was i concerned about not writing the program well i was an aspiring programmer myself when i learned that colossus was written in pascal i figured that i was a pretty good pascal programmer and i could do better than that i think i started writing my bbs software several times some time afterwords the upgrade to colossus came out and it was called of all things collie it was a bit better than colossus but more a rename than anything else i m not sure if i migrated sanctuary over to collie or not not to long after that the people who wrote colossus collie converted their project to wildcat i never really liked that software it was just a bit to weird for me speaking of weird software the bbs software that always had caught my eye was wwiv i m not sure what wwiv stood for i always assumed it was for world war 4 but who knows i really enjoyed the format for that software but every time i downloaded it it was not very friendly and or nice for me at the sysop level what i wanted was configurable version of wwiv with a colossus sysop interface in hindsight what i always wanted was the custom software that ran on the motel west unfortunately the motel ran on an apple yes it was spelled that way and even if i had the gumption to finish my custom bbs re write i probably wouldn t have been happy with it the thing that made the motel west one of the best bbs software out there was the content or better said the contributing users the best part of the bbs was the community many years later i ended up buying a bbs software package it was written by a guy named mike woltz the software was called spitfire it too was written in pascal i never did finish my custom bbs software but i was able to use what i learned to make add on modules for my spitfire bbs software it was with that software that sanctuary became a 24 hour a day 7 day a week full time bbs it ran for quite a few years we had users come and go we ended up running games on the bbs which drove much of the traffic but we never did really have the community that we did on the motel west many people look back to their high school years and see the time they spent playing sports or being with their school friends when i look back to my high school years i remember many a night pecking a way at a keyboard composing the next chapter of the on line story and hanging out at denny s at insane times of night when i went to my high school senior prom i didn t ask a girl at school but rather asked a girl from the bbs we had a blast afterwords we went to denny s for ice cream and the other members of the bbs had dressed up for prom as well wow that reminds me of the story when the members of the motel west offered to buy tm cavalier a date but that is a story for another time posted by tm cavalier at 5 52 pm 7 comments labels bbs colossus denny s motel west sanctuary sysop users saturday august 2 2008 and now a message from our sponser ok so there is actually no message from a sponsor i just felt that two consecutive blog postings from me would be just plain unnatural so what does liquid paper a k a white out have to do with my bbs life evidently quite a lot it seems after just one night of boredom waiting for everyone else to get done so we can go to our favorite restaurant i grabbed a bottle of white out off a neighboring desk and start to color things with it the liquid paper bottle someone s shoe other objects i mean it s perfectly normal right low blood sugar lack of sleep lack of something relevant to do i mean the brush mounted in the cap is just waiting to be used well after that one night tm cavalier and liquid paper became one of the running jokes of the motel west there were a few i recall when you get a large group of friends together typing out their life and adventures on a green and black screen each day little one liner zings quickly become part of every post a little jab here and a little jab there to generate some friendly banter the bbs scene was very much like radio it is the theater of the mind what someone says on the bbs becomes a kind of reality a virtual reality you may say every alias developed a persona that had elements of the person behind it but at the same time was quite a different person frequently people who hit it off well with the group on line didn t mesh well with the group in a real life situation why the person was friendly and outgoing only in the virtual world in the real world they were a petty self centered jerk almost nobody that i met on line ever turned out to be how i expected them when i finally saw them in person now this is not necessarily a bad thing i remember user with the alias your conscience who was very obnoxious and quite brutal on line in real life this guy was hilarious to be around once you realized who he really was the on line persona morphed into a person hitting you with abstract random information just to throw you off kilter so back to white out in the on line persona of tmc liquid paper became the drug of choice or more correctly a battle axe in the hands of someone recently returned from the hospital who is anxious to tell you that they are all better now posted by tm cavalier at 9 28 pm 4 comments labels motel west radio of the mind white out your conscience friday august 1 2008 deity complex colossus and what the parrot saw well after a few months of the bbs scene it became clearly obvious that the most important popular and powerful person on any bbs was the sysop the bbs sysop with the touch of a key could give you 5 minutes or take away 5 minutes since the bbs was a single phone line affair you had to have time limits put on the callers so that they didn t sit online all day and hog the whole bbs the sysop could force you into chat mode the im of the day or ignore your chat requests also in the early days every one used an alias online and only the sysop knew the real names behind the pseudonyms aliases that i have used in the bbs world are merlin very original eh lord corwin i liked roger zelazny s amber series my real name hey no one was using real names right my real name backwards yes it s pronounceable and does sound strangely slavic gheti bait pronounced fish bait isn t english fun minor deity rather short lived the midnight cavalier abbreviated to tmc tm cavalier origin of this name to be future blog fodder anyways back to the deity complex so like all idealistic teenagers i decided that my computer hobby would soon grow to that of bbs operator in order to do this i had to overcome some obstacles my own computer mom dad wouldn t let me take over the family computer for this my own phone line easily achieved after my dad spent 2 hours trying to call the house only to get a busy signal courtesy of interplay bbs software cheap configurable well like any good 16 year old i went to work and saved up some money and when i finally got a 1 000 saved up i purchased a car well no a computer and not any computer but the fully loaded awesome pcjr yes there were now 2 pcjr computers in the same house scary isn t it next bbs computer software my problem my computer had 1 floppy drive i had to find software that would fit on to 1 floppy disk with the operating system and any other support programs i need remember this was before the advent of the hard drive in a personal computer so for a floppy disk to be bootable it had to have an operating system on it so i searched and finally downloaded the bbs software colossus it was relatively easily to set up colossus was a shareware program if i recall correctly what that meant was the program was fully functional but you were encouraged to pay for it if you really liked it the registration for colossus was about 50 so i decided to hold off hey i just dropped a grand for the computer i was broke and continued to use the program for free i already had the name picked out sanctuary bbs from the book series thieves world by robert asprin i was now ready to start my own bbs now all i needed was callers full disclosure there is actually no parrot content in this post posted by tm cavalier at 8 43 pm 5 comments labels alias bbs colossus 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