Quothe chris halarewich, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at
12:16:01AM -0800:
> if your interested telnet over to telnet://franklarosa.com
> to to a great retro bbs
Neat! A working example of classic computing. :-) Thanks for the info.
Were most others here sysops of BBSs at one time as well? This brings
back memories of BBSing back when I was in college. About the most
fun I had as a sysop was with with an on-line "door" program, a hacked
Eliza program which became the "Sindy Spikes PSYCHOtherapist" program;
it was a computer program pretending to be "a, like, totally awesome"
psychotic punck-rocker chick psychotherapist. What made this all the
more interesting was that I could watch, from my computer, what the
users were typing into that program... and I could add to what they
were typing from my keyboard. :-)
Does anyone have a PDP-11 on-line running a BBS? About 6 years ago, I
wrote the GADZOOKS! BBS software in COBOL-Plus under TSX-Plus on my
PDP-11/73... never perfected it, but it at least attempted to allow
users to log in and exchange messages... it still needs some work
though, as I made some more changes which broke something and I never
got around to fixing the broken code. The down-side was that, through
COBOL-Plus, I couldn't find a way access low-level OS calls. Unlike
most BBS's, this BBS used a command-line interpreter instead of menus.
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Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 13:41:04 GMT