18 May
2017
18 May
'17
3:22 p.m.
we ran ours first on a hp-2000 then migrated to a hp-3000
final version had 100 boards on it email , multi user chat, poll and
voting and much more.
yep it kicked ass!
The machines were used also as board test machines etc when needed
and also some were used as sale of computer time to people tthat
had developed an application and did not want to rewrite it for a pc.
... and I found they were better to just run rather than turn on and
off..
but they drew power! and they generated heat.
... nothing like having a 10 platter 500 lb drive as a leg warmer next t
o your desk.
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In a message dated 5/18/2017 1:23:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote:
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.
Here's what amounts to a canonnical(sp?) list of BBS programs for a number
of different platforms:
http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/
g.
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