A look at my BBS Software from '93

Re:A look at my BBS Software from '93 by X86BSD on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:07AM (#14154117)

Maybe I missed it in the comments but was I the only one to run Wildcat! software for their board? I loved Wildcat!

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Re:A look at my BBS Software from '93 by reiger on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:39PM (#14158942)

I ran it too - could never afford MajorBBS or the successors and it was easy to scale from 1-24 nodes. I even ran the weird BBS/ISP hybrid WINS Server but wasn't good enough to be considered a real ISP.

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Re:A look at my BBS Software from '93 by MR4D on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:14AM (#14154142)

I ran it too! Was so much fun right before the time the internet connectivity expanded past universities.

I ran the BBS because otherwise I had to dial into Chicago (long distance - ha, what a concept!). For me it was much cheaper to just run a multiline BBS, and then read news on my own computer that sat in the basement!

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Re:A look at my BBS Software from '93 by drittich on Thursday April 20, 2017 @07:25AM (#14155713)

I ran it too! A co-worker and I who were sys admins at a Canadian provincial ministry ran it on behalf of the ministry, because no one knew enough to tell us not to :)

Also, what about RoboComm? That thing was incredible to me back then.

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