I ran a BBS using QuickBBS in the mid to late 80's, right at the tail end of support for the non-80 column displays for the various Atari and Commodore machines (at least in BBS programs not running on them). We never became a FIDOnet node but used the same software frontend and such to create a small network of local boards. My board never went above single line on an XT-clone with a 40MB drive and a 2400bps modem. Certainly a number of others on this list started well before then. Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757

Quothe Jeff Hellige, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:32:28PM -0500: Neat! Someone else here used QuickBBS as well. :-) Back in the days before I was able to obtain a UNIX box, and was using PC-DOS on my genuine IBM PeeCee-XT (can you say "only $2,895 for 256K of memory, single-process operating system, monochrome graphics, no serial port and a whopping 10MB hard drive... plus a couple of hundred more for an internal 1200 BPS Hayes modem"?), which, at the time, seemed like a step up from a Commodore 64 with a cassette tape drive, I was also using QuickBBS, which seemed to be the most user customizable BBS software available. To anyone whose seen my personal web page, it's origins stem from the text on the opening screens of my BBS in the mid 1980s, which was set up like a large old haunted mansion; each "room" was a different message area - e.g., the basement for electronics and computer hacking, the library for discussing literature, the music room for discussing music, the parlor for general topics of conversation, etc. Wow, you had one of those BBS's with a high-speed modem! :-) Out of curisoty, do you still have any of your message-base files from your QuickBBS BBS? I wanted to write a program, under UNIX, that can read these files and extract the text from the other data contained in these files, but never got around to it; never had any complete info. about the data-file structure. Is anyone here familiar with doing this? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

<snip> R.D. Amazingly, I just located what appears to be one of my ZIP'd backups for my board, as well as two disks containing the original archives for QuickBBS 2.64 as well as various doors and utilities, such as Prodoor and the CBS verification door. Most of this stuff dates from about 1989 or 90, which is the last time I really toyed with the idea of continuing to run the board. I didn't notice if the fossil was there or not, but then again I didn't unzip any of it. Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757

Mine was 'Mount Olympus BBS' out of Laurel, MD though it was physically located in a friends house on Bolling Air Force Base and running off of a Leading Edge XT clone. I never became a FIDO node but was quite active on FIDO up through about '95 or so. One of my favorite boards was also run just a few houses away, called 'TandyDC'. It was run off of a TRS-80 Model 2000 using the FOSSIL version of GT-Power and it was a TRS-80/Tandy support BBS run by a guy by the name of Bernie Skoch. His house was stacked with TRS-80 equipment and this was in the late 80's. Jeff -- Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.cchaven.com http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757

Does that mean you could set up a vector terminal like a Tektronix 4013 and and draw all kinds of stuff on the screen? Sounds kinda neat. On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:14:37AM -0500, Bryan Pope wrote: -- Bill Amsterdam, NL