R: JLS Vidtek Big Board Xerox 820

Wow... finally .... Do you have something to add looking back into your memories? Old Pictures? It would be so great! Enrico -----Messaggio originale----- Da: M South [mailto:mso at exoss.net] Inviato: luned? 3 settembre 2018 01:08 A: cctech at classiccmp.org; enrico.lazzerini at email.it Oggetto: JLS Vidtek Big Board Xerox 820 Hi, It was my company that produced that and I was one of the designers... JLS Computers (aka Vidtek). produced in Toronto similar to SBC BB1 Enrico Lazzerini enrico.lazzerini at email.it Mon Feb 9 16:30:06 CST 2015 Previous message: Memorex MRX IV 6250 BPI SuperReel Tape on sale - 4 reels maybe new Next message: begging drivers/docs for obscure old PC/Mac hardware Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Hi, I'm a bit curious on this old historical motherboard derived from original Ferguson Bigboard 1. Is there anybody who have it and he can send a pic of it? Or Is there anybody who can describe it? I not found anything on internet, just all I report below: Micro/Access ????????????? | Toronto, Ontario????? (1983-1993) ??????? SYSOP | Max Southall ???? SOFTWARE | Custom by Bob Kamins and Max Southall ???? COMMENTS | "The Micro/Access BBS system grew out of the need to ????????????? | service the product line of the JLS/Vidtek Big Board ????????????? | project. The JLS Big Board was a reincarnation with ????????????? | hardware and software enhancements of the original ????????????? | Ferguson Big Board Z80 single board computer system sold ????????????? | to hobbyists. Redesigned by Joe L. Sutherland, with input ????????????? | from Bob Kamins, with later hardware, firmware and ????????????? | software fixes by Max Southall, it was a solid CP/M-80 ????????????? | based system which also was the basis for the Xerox 820 ????????????? | series. Customers (or any others) of the Big Board were ????????????? | charged $50 a year for access, which eventually included ????????????? | email access to the then research-oriented internet. ????????????? | There were hundreds of paying customers.? The BBS ????????????? | software based on Bob Kamins' work was written in ????????????? | Microsoft's BASIC, and compilation was with Microsoft's ????????????? | M80 compiler. <p> "Eventually Max Southall completely ????????????? | rewrote Stuart Lynne's (yes, the later ICANN chairman) ????????????? | UUPC program and incorporated an email program interface, ????????????? | all in assembler, which connected the Micro/Access BBS ????????????? | users via UUCP to Unix-based internet-based ????????????? | communications. <p> "Prior to 1985, the system was known ????????????? | online as the Vidtek system, which grew out of ????????????? | manufacturing video and CP/M boards for the Apple ][ ????????????? | clone systems. SCSI hard disk subsystems were ????????????? | manufactured and sold for the Big Board and sold all over ????????????? | the world, and the BBS used the same hardware as was sold ????????????? | to customers." - Max Southall Regards Enrico