Hi, Dave,
I just checked the most recent Atlanta BBS list compiled near the end of
1998, and it still listed Cam's Wildcat BBS with a main dial-up phone number
of:
1-770-461-5947. There were only 85 boards listed, of which 55 had been
verified by the Online Atlanta Society, the group which maintains the list.
Many of them are being run on old 80386 and 80286 systems, using old
versions of PCBoard or WildCat, or some other BBS software, with rather
smallish hard disks, 500MB being common, and they seem to concentrate more
on message areas, conference nets and small and specialized file bases. The
BBS sceene in one of the most BBS-active areas in the word is much sunk from
what it was about four or five years ago, and probably continuing to slip.
I was actually surprised to find the list showing as many as 85 boards, but
I was also surprised to find out the state of the equipment on which most
are running. You'd think some of them would be running on old, throw-out
surplus Pentium machines like 120's or 133's with some of the now cheap used
1- and 2GB hard disks. I guess the BBS is like DOS, still limping along,
not yet dead, but not threatening to stage any kind of a comeback any time
soon.
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