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

That's why I used it. I used 'TheDraw' to do up full ANSI menus and an opening screen for it. A buddy ran a board called 'Terminal Fix BBS' using Searchlight and we did quite an interesting ANSI animated opening screen for it. I got some complaints that the ANSI color screens were too slow to load though. That was at the end, before the hard disk crashed and we decided not to put it back online. That was in the days of USR's 'sysop specials' of $600 for the HST 9600baud modem. I think my other system that I actually used for calling other BBS's was still using an old Racal-Vadic 1200bps modem with GT-Power on a TRS-80 Model 2000. In one of my disk boxes here I still have the last incarnation of my board, including the Tandy 1000HX like I used towards the end for working out the setup before moving it to the other XT to put online. It happily ran off of the dual floppy drives and I'm sure the various message and other data files are still on the disk. Of course, all of this pales in comparison to some people like Jim Willing and the Wildcat BBS running off of an Altair. Myself, I never really cared for Wildcat and tried it along with a bunch of others (Searchlight, Genesis, FIDO, Magpie, etc.) before finally settling on QuickBBS. All of these being DOS based. Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757