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

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Fri Feb 8 09:26:49 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige_at_earthlink.net]

> 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.

I'll bet I have one of those Leading Edge XT clones. :)

On a slightly different topic, has anyone thought about doing
something similar to a BBS, but on a larger scale? A UUCP network,
for instance? Not as large or full of garbage as the internet these
days, but not as local as a BBS...

Chris


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