Fido is far from dead! - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 1997

Thanks, I'll take it.  (photze(a)batelco.com.bh), and I have one more thing:
I need to know about server-type software, as well as client.  (I live in
Bahrain, where there are only 6 digit numbers, and I don't know of any
BBSs.  That's why I want to start one.)
	Since writing, I've found a company called Mustang withe some good windows
software, 32 bit OS, etc., but I want DOS.  (Whoever said DOS is dead is
probably dead themselves.)
	Thanks again,

	Tim D. Hotze
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From: Bruce Lane &lt;kyrrin2(a)wizards.net&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Subject: Fido is far from dead!
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 6:38 PM

Uncle Roger put forth with this bit of shtuff...

...
 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 22:01:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Uncle Roger &lt;sinasohn(a)crl.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Friday and Saturday Finds
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At 06:01 PM 10/27/97 +0300, you wrote:
...
 PS- Info on Bulliten Board Services (BBS).  Remember,
before the WWW caught
...
 on, that's what we'd log onto and post
messages, etc.  I want to know about
...
 some old BBS software for DOS and earlier versions of
Windows, and server
software.  (Get what I'm trying to say here?)  
...
 Check around on the web for Fido software.  Back in the
days before the
Internet, FidoNet was a world-wide network of independant BBS's.   
	Fido is far from dead. In fact, some sysops have claimed an increase in
their user base since the Internet got rolling. I've been running a Fido
BBS since 1989, and I've got no intention of stopping anytime soon.

	I have a wide assortment of BBS software oriented towards DOS-based
systems. My pacakge of choice is RemoteAccess 2.01. If there's someone on
the list who needs the software, just say so and I can file-attach the
pieces to them in an E-mail message.

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Bruce Lane, Sysop,  The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net)
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
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