Seriously? Wow, thats amazing... What about, *what-was-it*... Blue Wave?
-- Espi On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Cain, Steven <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > > > > >
