Atari BBSing with Rob Sherman

Episode 5 of the Stray Pointers podcast, hosted by Jim Lawless, titled "Atari BBSing with Rob Sherman" was published on April 4, 2025 and runs 27 minutes.

April 4, 2025 ·27m · Stray Pointers

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Episode Description

Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear.

Rob's telnet BBS's are as follows:

Southernamis.ddns.net:23
This BBS runs in the AWS cloud 24/7 on Atari 130XE, 850 interfaces at a lightning speed of 9600 baud.

Amis86.ddns.net:9000
This BBS is a complete rebuild of MACE 1986 AMIS BBS. Enhanced and highly modified

Nitelite.ddns.net:9000
This BBS is the restoration of the Atari Corporate 8Bit BBS Nitelite ... an amazing part of Atari History.

Here's the terminal, SyncTerm, used in the show:
https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/