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[Allan Nelson]

Hey all,

Just thought that i would mention that i have an old BBS set up too. I
set it up a little while back for some testing, i havent got any door
games or ne thing on there yet but you can feel free to have a look
around.

http://watchguard.hurgh.org:61000/ 

(I changed the port so that it is the same as the other bbs here, makes
it easy to remember :)

Allan



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Network Administrator
Oxley College

>>> Craig Sanders <cas at taz.net.au> 18/12/2003 2:05:38 pm >>>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:17:39AM -0500, Giles Pollock wrote:

> This box is still really a work in progress that ill put on wireless
when i
> actually link somewhere... its hosted on dialup on a machine that has
a habit
> of locking up when knocked hard enough so dont be suprised if its
down or
> slow :P... also, the BBS software hasnt been configured in any way,
so if
> anyone has some ansi/ascii art theyd like put up, or wants to help me
make
> some new or better menus, feel free to contact me on IRC (Austnet
chat
> network in #melb-wireless)

if the hardware's flaky, you could probably set this up to run under
dosemu on
linux.   configure inetd or whatever so that telnetting to a certain
port
spawned a new copy the bbs.  even an old pentium (with lots of RAM and
a fast
modern disk) should be able to run several sessions of dosemu + bbs +
door
games.


> Take a look at telnet://NamelessBBS.gotdns.org:61000

err, actually, it looks like you're running some kind of Windows BBS
rather
than an MS-DOS BBS.  wouldn't run under dosemu.  probably not under
wine
either.

i didn't know they made any windows BBS, last time i had anything to do
with
BBS, it was all MS-DOS + Deskview, or OS/2 running DOS-boxes.  

i think at the end, before i switched to a uucp feed from APANA, i was
running
OS/2 & binkleyterm & maximus bbs & other stuff.  i switched to linux in
92 or
93 because uucp worked properly in unix but didn't work properly in
dos,
windows, or os/2 (none of them had any real concept of multiple users,
whether
simultaneous or not)....linux also let me run a long cable off the
serial port
and have a wyse-50 terminal in the lounge room (two computers for the
price of
one!! :)


> (I meant to put in a word that meant looking back happily on past
memories,
> but i forgot what it was)

"nostalgia".

can't say i miss those days at all.  the 'net is what i always wanted
bulletin
boards (& Fidonet etc) to be.  even uucp mail & news was a vast
improvement
over fido-style echoes and local message boards.


craig

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