17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
7:16 a.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, JP Hindin wrote:
Citadel, FTW. :)
I miss Micro Magic. *sigh*
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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.