Subj : Where is everybody?
To : 0zZ-U
From : Roon
Date : Sun Jun 25 2023 10:21 pm
Hello 0zZ-U,
25 Jun 23 14:10, you wrote to Alonzo:
Al>>
Al>> We can introduce people to bulletin boards by volunteering to
Al>> give talks at our local libraries or schools. Neighborhood
Al>> community meetings. Everywhere. You say that if I am settting up
Al>> and running a BBS for callers, I am doing it for the wrong
Al>> reason. Well, what IS the reason? Are we just entertaining
Al>> ourselves? Other Sysops? If so, that's pretty sad.
zU> I see this same sentiment in other hobbies like amateur radio. Just
zU> enjoy your hobby without the constant _need_ to introduce other people
zU> to it. Do stamp collectors run around with their collections trying to
zU> get people
zU> to collect stamps? do coin collectors ... well you get the point
zU> Just have fun with, even if it's a niche or dying hobby.
zU> In the end it doesn't matter.
"We...Don't...Give...A...Shit, We are playing this song for us"
- Jaymz Hetfield from a Salt Lake City show just before playing "Ain't My Bitch" Jan. 2, 1997
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my 2 cents:
i like to play with old stuff and what i learn i try to sell in a modern curtain, for example:
in 2021 i bought a linksys pap2t adapter hooked up my old modem, learned to connect it to an asterisk server. i've learned how to set up an asterisk, inbounds-outbounds, etc. just because of the BBS...
6 month later i've made an asterisk server for a hotel with 300 rooms (lines). in the past 2 years i've made 4 other hotels. earned a huge amount of money with it. just because of the BBS...
a couple of years ago i've started to code assembly on my c64 just for fun... since that in my daily job i am coding much better, because i started to optimising my code, learned tricks, changed my thinking. i am
better, i am saving time -> i earn a huge amount of money.
sidenote: in january a company found me through a friend. this company produces industrial rings and it turned out that one of their test bed is a commodore64 running an old basic program. they are using it since 30+ years because it is much better than anything on this (small) market. suddenly the c64 gave up, so i borrowed them one and disassembled the code and rewrote it in python... but they decided to stay with the c64... anyways .. money came.
i bought an atari because i never had it and wanted to try, after a couple of month it ended up being my main computer in our music studio, perfectly syncing with ableton live and controls almost everything w/midi...
retro computers helps me focusing on things. when i use my mac (for coding, music, writing documentation, etc) there is always an "ALT-TAB" to an email or some social media shit. with retro computers this problem is gone..
i think it's up to you what you do with your useless hobby... or is it useless?... :)
