Large Warez modded Thieve's Den GBBS in 1984, now a n00b!

Hi all,

Sold my dirtbike and cut lawns all summer for my first used Apple ][+.  Ultimately got a 300bps modem and ASCII Express, once "online" my interest grew rapidly.  Upgraded to an Apple //e as I learned more, and met more people online.  Ran my first BBS ("Networks ][" BBS software) on my duo-disk and as things grew purchased a Sider II 20MB hard drive-- was so large at the time, and fast! ha..

We would get all the latest warez, play games, learn... The AppleCat // from Novation was the modem of choice for most warez sites as it would do 1200baud half-duplex when connecting to another AppleCat //.  Catsend, Catfur, all great apps.

I just bought a used //e from eBay and fired it up.  The reliable "beep" is displaying the Apple ][ at the top of screen, and the duo-drive activated-- hungry for some media.  The problem is, I don't have any :)  

This forum looks like home, and people doing a LOT of cool advanced stuff with this older tech!  Any resources of where to get some media like DOS bootable disks, etc.  I would like to build up my collection like back in the day, some fun games and utilities like Beagle Bros, etc.  I found a BBS in Canada that runs GBBS accessible via putty from my laptop, pretty cool.  Some of the best apps back then were written by the people cracking the warez.  I have an old Applecat // modem and wondering where I could get some of the cool apps from back then.  There was an app for the Applecat // that would do text to speech, it was pretty amazing especially for the time.

If anyone has suggestions on other resources in addition to this site to obtain media, download and create media, access to manuals, etc. that would be appreciated.  Also, if anyone has contact info for "Herb" from "The King's Lair BBS" from the 80's, drop a DM!  

L8r