a new BBS...

It's called sarcasm.... Maybe because I don't have a modern PC.... Or maybe because I do prefer using PDP8s, PDP11s, PERQs, HP9000/200s, HP9830s, and so on... My point is that you might want to use the older equipment/methods even if the more modern units are technically superio. A modern PC will execute instructions faster than a PDP11, for any reasonable definitio of 'instruction' -- in fact a modern PC running a PDP11 emulator is faster than a real PDP11. None-the-less I'll stick to my 11/45, 11/44, etc And by exactly the same argument you might want to use a modem rather than whatever that broadband system was. Sure I'd not want to download a multi-megabyte file using a Modem 2B (300 baud, all discrete transistors, LC filters, etc). But such units are (at least to me) pleasant to restore and keep working. -tony