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

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Feb 8 06:14:37 2002

And thusly Jeff Hellige spake:
>
> >I ran "abort,retry,ignore" BBS. In San Jose (408 area code)
> >A fido node with 1 2400 baud line! 20mb of HD
> >running on a Televideo color IBMXT clone!
>
> Mine was 'Mount Olympus BBS' out of Laurel, MD though it was
> physically located in a friends house on Bolling Air Force Base and
> running off of a Leading Edge XT clone. I never became a FIDO node
> but was quite active on FIDO up through about '95 or so.
>
> One of my favorite boards was also run just a few houses
> away, called 'TandyDC'. It was run off of a TRS-80 Model 2000 using
> the FOSSIL version of GT-Power and it was a TRS-80/Tandy support BBS
> run by a guy by the name of Bernie Skoch. His house was stacked with
> TRS-80 equipment and this was in the late 80's.
>

Does anyone remember the graphics BBS' that used vector graphics (and maybe
some small bitmaps) for everything? What was the name of this?

Bryan
Received on Fri Feb 08 2002 - 06:14:37 GMT