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

Quothe chris halarewich, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:16:01AM -0800: Neat! A working example of classic computing. :-) Thanks for the info. Were most others here sysops of BBSs at one time as well? This brings back memories of BBSing back when I was in college. About the most fun I had as a sysop was with with an on-line "door" program, a hacked Eliza program which became the "Sindy Spikes PSYCHOtherapist" program; it was a computer program pretending to be "a, like, totally awesome" psychotic punck-rocker chick psychotherapist. What made this all the more interesting was that I could watch, from my computer, what the users were typing into that program... and I could add to what they were typing from my keyboard. :-) Does anyone have a PDP-11 on-line running a BBS? About 6 years ago, I wrote the GADZOOKS! BBS software in COBOL-Plus under TSX-Plus on my PDP-11/73... never perfected it, but it at least attempted to allow users to log in and exchange messages... it still needs some work though, as I made some more changes which broke something and I never got around to fixing the broken code. The down-side was that, through COBOL-Plus, I couldn't find a way access low-level OS calls. Unlike most BBS's, this BBS used a command-line interpreter instead of menus. -- 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.