BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Feb 2002

On February 8, Kris Kirby wrote:
...
   If
anyone's intersted in putting classic systems on-line as BBS
 systems, I'll gladly maintain a list of systems, telephone numbers,
 hours of operation, etc. and make it available on my web site.  
 I've a few questions. I missed the BBS era by just a few years; a friend
 of mine used to run one but shut it down eventually. How were nodes linked
 together? If every COM port is used for a modem, you're out of COM ports. 
  Depends on the software...early FidoNet nodes, for example,
exchanged messages across FidoNet via part-time dialup connections,
usually using the same modem that users dialed into...

...
  Were they independent BBSs that checked in with each
other, or were they
 networked together over ethernet or (...) ? 
  Yup, generally the former.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf