And amazingly FidoNet still operates today, although on a much smaller scale than in its heyday with almost 40,000 BBSes in the mid-90s.
Steve Cain Sr. System Administrator -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? I ran a BBS on my single phone line running to my Amiga 1000 for several years. Bought a used external 30mb SCSI hard drive for $300 from the local dealer. It was just a chat board - no files, so didn't worry about xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, etc. I had folks dialing in from all over, including Australia, Finland and South Africa. Was very cool. After the hd died, I went to a 286 machine running something that did fidonet, but that never took off. Wasn't as much fun, so I let it go after a year or so. Kurt On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > UUCP on Amiga. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Klaus Hartnegg > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list? > > Am 29.07.2014 20:09, schrieb Ben Scott: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:51 PM, William Robbins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> ZModem was one of my faves. >> >> YModem-G. Faster downloads on modems with hardware error correction. > > BIMODEM with concurrent up- and download and life chat with the Sysop (and > the possibility to download the BBS password file, in a commom > misconfiguration). Before that Kermit (slooooooow). Or uucp in a magic > parallel-world on that brand new but terribly complicated OS named Linux or > so (with slight limitations, such as the second floppy needed to be used as > swap, otherwise only one xterm window would open). > > Hmm. What was the original question? > > >
