Ten Year Rule

Well here's something that the last time it was made was around 1993. It's about as classic as you can get. I had an idea to get my old Rainbow based FidoBBs (circa 1986) running again by hooking it up to the net via DECServer200/MC and reverse Telneting into it. I looked round for a copy of FIDO_DEC, found one but NUSQ would not unsqeeze it. Finally I found my way to Tom Jennings (The guy who wrote Fido) website. Total shock and horror!! All of the sources and backups had been trashed in a computer crash around 1993. So most of what he had done from 1983 to 1993 was a heap of smoldering ruins. The sources (or what's left of them) are freely available on his web site. Rebuilding hardware is one thing but software, well that's another!