Quothe Jeff Hellige, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:32:28PM -0500:
> 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
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.
> 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.
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?
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