VMS BBS network

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sat Nov 18 11:10:53 2000

On November 18, Billy D'Augustine wrote:
> > Also most importantly is anyone
> > seriously interested in this?
>
> I'd be interested!

  You know, call me crazy, but I think I'm interested as well. Yeah.
I, too, miss the dialup BBS days, and it'd be neat to do something
even remotely like that again.

  I ran the Mercerville RCP/M system for about three years up near
Trenton, NJ, when I was in high school...I shut it down in 1987 in
favor of putting my pdp11/34a (running RSTS/E) on a dialup line for my
friends to hack on.

  My favorite part of the whole old BBS scene were "storyboards".
Anyone remember those? Of course, the concept could be approximated
with netnews, but it's just not the same. Having a specific interface
designed for that sort of writing...chapter navigation, stuff like
that...is really, really nice.

  I tried to bring up another BBS many years ago (1990 or so) on an
AT&T 7300 (UnixPC, 10MHz 68010, 512K, SysVr2). I ran a program called
"unaxcess" which I really liked. Has anyone here ever seen it?


             -Dave McGuire
Received on Sat Nov 18 2000 - 11:10:53 GMT