I googled “silverstone bbs” today, keywords from my past, to see if I could find some new information about my old Atari powered BBS and some of the guys who I had contact with back in those days, around 1991-1995.

I know there are alot of sites out there who still have lists, broken links and contact information about my old BBS and its contents, but this time I also found our old BBS intro (demo), recently uploaded and commented on, pretty fun :). As a matter of fact the phonenumber I used for the BBS is still active, but not used since many years, and I think there are still some incoming modem calls every now and then, hehe.

Silverstone BBS intro (Atari), released in March 1994: silverst.zip

I wonder what the old crew and the other SysOps of old Atari BBS’s are doing nowadays…

In the early 1990s, Silverstone first started out as my name for a popular bulletin board system (BBS) for the Atari ST computers. The name does not come from the racetrack with the same name, but from a TV infomercial on non-stick cookware which had silverstone coating, said to be better than teflon, fancy huh?

A few years later, when Internet came along strong, I experimented with some websites, for example my Casio FX programmable calculator support (from which you might still find files out there). In 1993 I started to use PCs instead of Atari and used Linux to power my BBS, however the Internet was the new thing and soon the BBS was closed down.

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