17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
7:48 a.m.
I was a Remote Access sysop. That was a fantastic BBS system. Only ever ran it single
line, but I did run it off of a windows 95 box that doubled as my personal computer and
that worked quite well before the internet finally did in the BBS. I'm sure a
multi-node system would have been fine
I'd been toying with the idea of setting up RA again. Just need a fossil-socket
driver...
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On Feb 17, 2015, at 9:16 AM, geneb <geneb at
deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Mike Loewen wrote:
Citadel, FTW. :)
I miss Micro Magic. *sigh*
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http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_! On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, JP Hindin wrote:
How did people set up multi-node BBS' back in the day?
I know you could run something like Desqview and run multiple copies on a
single system, and some BBS' (like TBBS) had built-in multitasking so it
handled multiple modems. And, of course, you could get fancy and run a
Novell network. Were there other ways of doing this?
Yes, on a real multi-tasking OS. A friend of mine and I ran a home-grown BBS on a Tandy
6000HD running Xenix for a couple of years starting in 1986 in Sumner, WA. Four 1200bps
modems plus the console allowed 5 of us to be on at the same time. It was primarily a
message system (room-based), with a real-time chat facility.