BBSes on old hardware and SuperVIC

From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Mon Apr 28 05:05:17 1997

On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, hellige wrote:

> Doug,
>
> There are 4 BBS's locally running on the C-64 using the 'Color-64' BBS
> program. Of course, they're mainly geared towards the Commodore crowd and the
> C-64, but they are quite interesting. One of them is the official board of
> the local Commodore 64/128 user group. It still shows people are still
> running BBS's using the older hardware though!

Yeah, there are still a few C64 BBSes running around here, too, and one on
an Atari 800 as well, last time I checked. But let's just say that I find
that the VIC-20 has a certain mystique about it, and as it is generally
used as an example of "wimpy and laughable" by those people who still
remember what it was (many people don't even know what you're talking
about when you say "VIC-20" to them anymore) I though it would be
extremely cool to run a BBS on one.

Actually, I also want to build a kind of "SuperVIC" machine. I want it to
ba a luggable like my TeleVideo or Kaypro II, only sitting vertically at
all times like a mini tower or something. I'd use the guts of a small
portable TV as the screen, put a standard serial port on it, and have the
keyboard snap onto its face. I'd put at least 32K in it, with a memory
protection toggle on the RAM so that it could run images of cartridges
from disk. I think I'd want two disk drives in it. With everything
running off a single power supply.

Well, *I* think it'd be cool, even if everyone else doesn't. :)


Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
Received on Mon Apr 28 1997 - 05:05:17 BST