BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

From: Dan Veeneman <dan_at_ekoan.com>
Date: Thu Feb 7 15:36:57 2002

> Were most others here sysops of BBSs at one time as well?

For many years I ran a cryptography-related BBS using a program called "Waffle"
on Intel hardware under MS-DOS.

Long before that I ran a "message center" on an HP-2000 under Timeshared BASIC
that allowed real-time messaging, very much like AOL Instant Messenger. It
was all done
via a single data file using HP BASIC's record locking features. Users
would call into
the system, log in and then run the program, allowing them to chat with
others on the
system running the same program.


Cheers,

Dan
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 15:36:57 GMT