>I was also using QuickBBS, which seemed to be the most user
>customizable BBS software available.
That's why I used it. I used 'TheDraw' to do up full ANSI
menus and an opening screen for it. A buddy ran a board called
'Terminal Fix BBS' using Searchlight and we did quite an interesting
ANSI animated opening screen for it. I got some complaints that the
ANSI color screens were too slow to load though.
> > 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! :-)
That was at the end, before the hard disk crashed and we
decided not to put it back online. That was in the days of USR's
'sysop specials' of $600 for the HST 9600baud modem. I think my
other system that I actually used for calling other BBS's was still
using an old Racal-Vadic 1200bps modem with GT-Power on a TRS-80
Model 2000.
>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
In one of my disk boxes here I still have the last
incarnation of my board, including the Tandy 1000HX like I used
towards the end for working out the setup before moving it to the
other XT to put online. It happily ran off of the dual floppy drives
and I'm sure the various message and other data files are still on
the disk.
Of course, all of this pales in comparison to some people
like Jim Willing and the Wildcat BBS running off of an Altair.
Myself, I never really cared for Wildcat and tried it along with a
bunch of others (Searchlight, Genesis, FIDO, Magpie, etc.) before
finally settling on QuickBBS. All of these being DOS based.
Jeff
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