I recovered a large collection of my original German BBS archives from 5.25" C64 floppy disks, including posts, messages and discussions - including hilarious sysop beefs and other flamewars - dating back to 1985 and 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPNXpaYHPy0

Also featured articles (boardzine) that reveal how people in the mid-1980s envisioned the future of BBSes and what they thought the perfect bulletin board system would look like.

With the help of Ariel's excellent ATDT software all this historic content has now been imported and integrated into a fully working BBS. Instead of being trapped in old disk images, the posts are now part of a living system again.

https://quipzz.bplaced.net/krs/

For a quick look:

Handle: guest
Password: guestguest

To make the archives accessible to the international BBS community, I transformed the entire system into a bilingual German/English BBS and translated all important content into English. Visitors can easily switch languages and explore 40-year-old messages from the German mailbox scene (that's what BBSes were called over here) without needing to know German.

The archives contain discussions written while people connected for example via 300 baud modems using Commodore 64s, C128s and early PCs, etc. In many ways it feels like a time capsule from the "Internet" before the Internet.

The video also features a small hardware project: I present custom 3D-printed parts for my Dataphon S21-23d acoustic coupler

Many thanks to Ariel for creating ATDT, adding custom import tools for my archive and helping bring this piece of German BBS history back to life.

http://atdtbbs.com/

BTW: If you're impatient, you can boost the default 1200 baud to light speed with a single keystroke (any key *g*) while reading messages.


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Snobsoft.de - Port:6401
The Commodore 64 BBS - since 1985
Tel:011494060943485 - 300 Baud 7N1
facebook.com/groups/3693533577621096/
youtube.com/@The300BaudGuy

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Re: 80s German BBS Archives Revived
By: Snobsoft to All on Wed Oct 07 2026 21:18:59

I recovered a large collection of my original German BBS archives from 5.25" C64 floppy disks, including posts, messages and discussions - including hilarious sysop beefs and other flamewars - dating back to 1985 and 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPNXpaYHPy0

Also featured articles (boardzine) that reveal how people in the mid-1980s envisioned the future of BBSes and what they thought the perfect bulletin board system would look like.

With the help of Ariel's excellent ATDT software all this historic content has now been imported and integrated into a fully working BBS. Instead of being trapped in old disk images, the posts are now part of a living system again.

https://quipzz.bplaced.net/krs/

For a quick look:

Handle: guest
Password: guestguest

OMG that is so cool to have all that info USABLE after all these years.

Will check it out

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Barry Davis Jr
SysOp
KrAABY Gamer BBS
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Re: 80s German BBS Archives Revived
By: KrAAB to Snobsoft on Thu Oct 08 2026 04:29 am

https://quipzz.bplaced.net/krs/

For a quick look:

Handle: guest
Password: guestguest

OMG that is so cool to have all that
info USABLE after all these years.

Glad to hear you like my project.

Have you checked out KRS yet? Feel free to leave a nice comment there - as I mentioned, you can do it as a guest as well. Or you can sign up as a user right away :)


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Snobsoft.de - Port:6401
The Commodore 64 BBS - since 1985
Tel:011494060943485 - 300 Baud 7N1
facebook.com/groups/3693533577621096/
youtube.com/@The300BaudGuy

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