18 May
2017
18 May
'17
12:27 p.m.
On 5/18/17 3:14 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 05/18/2017 10:44 AM, geneb wrote:
BBSs are really the thing from about 1978 to pre-internet (varied where
you lived).
Examples of the big BBS are Source, Delphi, Well, STD(software tool and
die), and
the big one Compuserve. Small ones like Sage and those mentioned by
inference
on the Walnutcreek CD are the more common small guys.
BBSs sorta were the big deal around 1980 to 19?? and the early ones were
mostly '
Either Z80 or 6502 based with a few others of the era. PCs were later
and kept it
going. They didn't offer speed but they were the platform of the day
and during
the clone wars (Tandy, and others) offered cheaper hardware it moved there.
Never forget, BBS were about storage and cheap which at that time were
mostly
opposed (disks weren't cheap!). The amount of Ram and CPU were less
important
considering what had to be done. Often the modem and hard disk were as
costly
as the basic system and we didn't exceed 2400 baud till '85or later.
Most anything
could keep up with IO at under 4800 baud.
Allison
Because. That's why. :)
Well,
okay--but then let's be period-correct. The PDP-11 dates from
1970, when, AFAIK, BBSes, if they existed, were far from what people
think they were.
I'm thinking of,say, Call Computer in Mountain View, frequented by the
HCC people. 300 baud, usually acoustic coupler-type (in 1970, the
implications of the Carterfone decision had just begun to set in.)
Mostly a real bulletin board in the sense of posting group messages.
That ran on what, an HP 3000? And whatever happened to Alex?
--Chuck