I bought an 8088 from a friend of mine in late '92 with a 1200 baud modem on it. All it was good for was calling boards, since it only had a 200M hard drive. This was the first computer I had besides my old Apple ][+ that was pretty useless. After becomming obsessed with the boards for abour 3 weeks, I talked my mom into getting me my own phone line for my birthday and I put up my own board, The TARDIS. I went by the Doctor. Once I realised I wasn't as big of a Dr. Who fan as I thought I was, I changed the BBS name to Peaceful Death (named after a Dead Horse song) and I later started using the alias DeadAir. The BBS was hacked a while later during a BBS hacker war and I put it back up under the name Fear and Loathing.
Loved it. The board was very popular until late '97 when the internet started pulling people away from the scene. I pulled the plug January 1 2000 after going almost 6 months with no calls except for network updates. I really miss it sometimes.
Vincent