I was never in to all the FIDO stuff, but I used to be a fairly constant presence on an Atari 8-bit BBS in Brum called The ARK (later called The City)

The BBS software was custom written by the sysop, a guy called James Bastable, and when I started typing this reply, a phone number popped into my head... I had to dig out an old BASIC listing of a program I wrote and uploaded to the BBS, and I only had one digit wrong and two others transposed from the actual BBS number. I haven't called that number since about 1990!

The BBS was a lot of fun, but I wouldn't want the phone bills, or the 300 or 1200/75 baud connections again!

I think I'd seen that DVD advertised before, but you've reminded me they were working on one about all the old text adventures. I might just put in a pre-order for that one!
(Which sidetracks me neatly to this)