EXEC-PC BBS?

From: Paul Berger <sanepsycho_at_globaldialog.com>
Date: Mon Jan 12 21:05:28 2004

Looks like the old girl is back up!! :)

:~> telnet bbs.execpc.com
Trying 169.207.51.4...
Connected to bbs.execpc.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
 
Linux 2.0.31 (bbs) (ttyp0)
 
 
Welcome to ExecPC BBS
connected
 
Exec-PC BBS (NODE# 402, CONNECT 57600)
 
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On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 12:28, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Paul Berger wrote:
>
> > He converted it from a system pretty much as you describe at it's peak
> > it consited of 5 novell severs with a total of 40+ hard drives and over
> > 100 PCs (bare motherboards actually) networked together in racks made ot
> > of plywood with slots cut in them to slide the motherboards into. It
> > was an interesting artitechture and the main reason it was as scaleable
> > as it was.
>
> Wow! That's really cool. Did they ever document it, like with pictures
> and stuff? That deserves preservation in some computer history archive.
Received on Mon Jan 12 2004 - 21:05:28 GMT