9 Feb
2002
9 Feb
'02
9:47 a.m.
There's a fellow named Jason Scott who is doing a documentary on BBS
history. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
He is/was looking for people who ran BBS' or were well known in the BBS
circles (I used to run ABBS #X in Atlanta, many many many years ago. Single
140K Apple ][, Hayes Micromicromodem. It was the first BBS in the southeast
to use circular message files, so none of that garbage of periodically
packing the disk, and reordering the messages, which always confused
people).
-- John
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Hellige
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 10:20 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: More BBS stuff...
The discussion lately on BBS sysops and software got me
thinking about that topic and looking at stuff I hadn't thought about
in years. In my own archvies I found old versions of Searchlight,
QuickBBS and the non-FOSSIL version of GT Power. Thankfully, my
archive of QuickBBS included my old setup and Ray Gwinn's X00 FOSSIL
driver and I was able to get it running under VPC enough to play
around with it. Last night, a guy in Texas sent me the FOSSIL
version of GT Power, which is what I used for my Model 2000. He told
me of his experience running a Model 2000 under OPUS and then GT
Power. Now I had never tried running OPUS on that machine but had
played with it on standard XT clones. This caused me to go out and
do a little search for some information on what happened to OPUS.
For those of you interested in a fairly full-featured BBS program
capable of running on machines such as the DEC Rainbow, Zenith Z-100,
TRS-80 Model 2000, and Sanyo 550, check out the following URL, 'The
Worldwide OPUS consortium':
http://www.sentry.org/~trev/opus/
Jeff
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