BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

Quothe Jeff Hellige, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:32:28PM -0500: Neat! Someone else here used QuickBBS as well. :-) Back in the days before I was able to obtain a UNIX box, and was using PC-DOS on my genuine IBM PeeCee-XT (can you say "only $2,895 for 256K of memory, single-process operating system, monochrome graphics, no serial port and a whopping 10MB hard drive... plus a couple of hundred more for an internal 1200 BPS Hayes modem"?), which, at the time, seemed like a step up from a Commodore 64 with a cassette tape drive, I was also using QuickBBS, which seemed to be the most user customizable BBS software available. To anyone whose seen my personal web page, it's origins stem from the text on the opening screens of my BBS in the mid 1980s, which was set up like a large old haunted mansion; each "room" was a different message area - e.g., the basement for electronics and computer hacking, the library for discussing literature, the music room for discussing music, the parlor for general topics of conversation, etc. Wow, you had one of those BBS's with a high-speed modem! :-) Out of curisoty, do you still have any of your message-base files from your QuickBBS BBS? I wanted to write a program, under UNIX, that can read these files and extract the text from the other data contained in these files, but never got around to it; never had any complete info. about the data-file structure. Is anyone here familiar with doing this? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.