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Chatting with BBS Sysop and Software Engineer Ben Kimball
Season 1 · Episode 9

Chatting with BBS Sysop and Software Engineer Ben Kimball

Stray Pointers

October 22, 202330m 19s

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Show Notes

Software engineer Ben Kimball discusses learning BASIC programming at age seven, writing and running his first BBS using Turbo Pascal, telnet BBSing, and the creation of Nebraska's first production wireless Internet services provider.

Ben's web-based telnet client for the ISCA BBS

http://iscaclient.llabmik.net/

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