■······························· · ] (c) Brom^E!E brom@tut.by (e)dited by wrecker.smokers Brief history of Minsk ZXNet Well, let's briefly go through the history. After the appearance of the scheme modem in Minsk, the first to try to assemble it were two little-known people calling themselves NickSoft and Stinger. According to them plans needed to recruit N number of people dreaming of seeing (and indeed hear) a mysterious device near your beloved Speccy, and then, in a creative atmosphere, their dream turn into reality. But, strange as it may seem, there are no applications There were even ten (and this was the starting number). Then came the second period for Nick and Stinger. After the failure of the prepayment idea, an attempt was made to produce modems to order. To do this, you just need to sit for a while hours unwinding the board, and after another two hours winding transformer You can guess that this idea is also brilliant failed. The reasons were already different: if in the previous case a dozen applications were required and that was where the problems ended, then now,although the number of applications did not matter, but the amount of time spent on assembling ONE modem is clearly not cost 20$ U.S.D. Of course, taking into account that orders for There were a lot of modems. Sanalex stands somewhat apart: they tried modems collect (namely collect, not sell) in two versions. Moreover, the first of them appeared before the NickSoft&Stinger modem. Then a diagram came from Vilnius. She was more perfect and generated a more perfect signal. But practical It didn’t even wait to be used, although its diagram is still in the possession of Sanalex's. The third who nevertheless made the dream of many spektrumists come true years old, was the well-known Ars^Ftl, placing an advertisement for the sale modems in printed advertising publications in the city of Minsk, he began slowly sell people what they wanted, and the price one modem was only $15. There were also modems from Dien, which were better in their own ways. characteristics, but in Minsk there are only a few of them, and at the moment hardly anyone remembers them. And with the advent of the first modems, the 8-bit modem boom began cars For fans of the good old Spectrum there is an incentive to creativity. The waning interest in the platform began to flare up with new strength. With the advent of the network, bbs began to appear. Activity users were forced to appear more and morenew bbs. On at the initial stage there were about 12 stations in Minsk, this such as: Black Night BBS, Fasa BBS, Fatality BBS, Hamer BBS, No_name (aka Aquamarine) BBS, Brom (aka Chemical) BBS, Dead BBS, Arny BBS, Stinger BBS, Abigor BBS, Delerium (aka Energy) BBS, Ability BBS, S.Sturm (aka Legion) BBS. Running in I will say ahead that by 1998 almost all of them, one by one, "left" this mortal world. For those who purchased the modem, a new life began. In the evening the happy owners of this miracle of communication sat down at their monitors and began frantically downloading and uploading files. In those times the traffic was so high that in one 'shift' they could fill up to 2000 sectors, but the number of calls was calculated in dozens. It is with the arrival of modem communications in Minsk that the emergence of a huge number of electronic publications. I would like to note that at that time Minsk ranked first in the number of electronic newspapers per capita zx-population of the city. Unfortunately, it didn’t last long, the surge passed and a sharp and crushing decline began. 1998 comes, PC prices begin to fall and people slowly starts to go away. In the period from August 1998 to August 1999 there was not a single one in Minsk permanent bbs, the only sysop at that time daily biba Misha Brom, entered the flight school and spent a whole yearlived in the barracks. I would also like to remember the Hamer BBS, which turned on occasionally comrade Hamer, but due to low activity the sysop did not have incentive to work, although attempts have been made to provide access to networks such as FidoNet, Internet, HomeNet and SkyNet After a year and upon Misha Brom's return home, the network began its second revival, those who still have modems and the desire to communicate with platform comrades began to increase network, new people have been added. We can say that autumn 1999 was truly the second birth of MinskZXNet. After a sharp There was a surge in activity, people were full and thirsty for something new. And at the beginning of 2000, just after the New Year holidays, maybe from a big hangover or maybe there was some kind of sign, but on One of the points at the headquarters of comrade Blaster was decided finally forget about ZXWord and go to communicate with centralized standards of ftn technologies, or to put it simply - Lara Croft Mail Editor was issued to everyone. At first People didn’t like this idea, but after live examples ( colleagues from Grodno), who by that time were already driving with all their might Like normal people, the people seemed to agree. Well, it seems like there are no problems, and then Blaster opened daily bib, now in Minsk there are already 2 bib, it seemed drive for yourself and don’t know the problems, butno. When quantity There are about 15 points in the network, it was difficult to get someone to leave on the 3rd node to Blaster, people are already accustomed to Chemical BBS, but only Communication problems for some points forced them to somehow “go away” from Chemical BBS. Thanks to Equator, Minsk spektrumists now have access to global ZXNet (such attempts to bring Minsk “to the light” have already were undertaken by Ars and Hamer, but due to the little interest of the people, they efforts were in vain). Biba Blaster existed for no more than six months and for the reason clogged sysop was closed (official reason for closure banal and simple - no time, computer is glitchy, etc., etc.) Well here again only Chemical BBS remained in Minsk, besides time on the network there were about 8 people who returned to second node. I would also like to remember that timid attempts to discover one’s bbs'ok served Chainick and One Man, but the public has them stations were not successful, for this reason they ceased to exist. Since then, in the life of Minsk spektrumists, there has been almost nothing new which didn't happen. And so we still exist. At the moment, the most persistent ones remain online: Misha Brom^E!E, Wrecker^Smokers, Equator, Seth^E!E, Rex, Midnight^E!E, Black Angerl. When writing the article, we used previously published newspaper 'Energy' materials from comrades DjPsych^PsychoTeam и Spectre^O.B.
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