bbs of old days

[John Adams]

Ahh I love the sweet scent of nostalgia.

"The Edge; Secret Society" went online June 1986, on a Commodore 128 (in C64 mode) running C-Net BBS software and 1 floppy drive (still have the hardware). In 1988, I moved to an IBM PC 8088 with a whoppin 640k ram and TWO floppies! I got my first ever hard disk a year or so later which I think was 20mb RLL and WWIV BBS software. Moved to AZ, and put TESS back online under VBBS, where it stayed until late 1996 when I could no longer compete with the growing popularity of the Internet for users.

I still have all my software, "doors", and leet 0-1day wArEz (though they are about 5400 days old now) on my servers here... which, by comparison, are 2 x64 linux boxes, a new PE2900 server with 10 virtual machines and a total of around 5tb of storage space counting all machines.

What a change from 20 years ago, eh?

[rojadruid]

sdabbs65 - i have a question for you? what are you using as a comport redirector for the telnet ability? Or is it a built in feature of PCBoard?

[Knightly]

http://www.synchro.net/

So cool sdabbs. Course...now I have to start my own BBS again. =P

[Angelox]

I have this client I always used since Internet started (and still do) - although its abandon-ware, it still runs fine. I even had it runing perfect with wine under Linux, but now it doesn't work and I can't figure out why.
its's called RIPTEL ver 3.1. It easily ran all the RIP graphics-Doors. You can easily Google-Find it, or I can post a link to mine.

[rojadruid]

Yeah I have riptell for my bbs. But I have been searching for quite awhile now for a comport redirector to be able to use telnet for my BBS. I have been looking for one that is freeware, but have had no luck

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by rojadruid

Yeah I have riptell for my bbs. But I have been searching for quite awhile now for a comport redirector to be able to use telnet for my BBS. I have been looking for one that is freeware, but have had no luck

what brand bbs do you have, and what OS?

[rojadruid]

Originally Posted by Angelox

what brand bbs do you have, and what OS?

I use an old BBS software called PROBOARD. Works great easy to setup and licencing was not that bad back in the day. I currently run it under winxp without any problems.

[Amra]

Originally Posted by Knightly

http://www.synchro.net/

So cool sdabbs. Course...now I have to start my own BBS again. =P

I just downloaded it. Time to play Wow, I feel so nostalgic.

[Amra]

I downloaded an awesome documentary. I didn't buy it :( but it's packed with flashback info. I figured you guys would be intersted. Check your local torrent sites if you don't want to pay the $40-$50.

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/