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|  Message 5058  |
|  Ryan Fantus to Nick Andre  |
|  Re: BBS Software Timeout Values  |
|  10 Apr 23 19:35:45  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49 MSGID: 1:218/820 62165381 REPLY: 1:229/426 C7EA1456 TZUTC: -0700 NA> I can't remember exactly. I keep thinking MajorBBS was at least a few NA> hundred and they upsold you on the "Galaticboard" serial card which was NA> another couple hundred bucks. MajorBBS was pretty fascinating, though. A single DOS program handling that scale of simultaneous users...super cool. NA> To be fair TBBS was absolutely fascinating. You could get your hands on NA> a pirate copy but it was absolutely useless without the printed manual. NA> It was "the mother" of all Rube Goldberg NA> lets-make-it-freaking-complicated contraptions. But when you really NA> began to understand why it did things the way it did... it actually NA> made sense. The manuals were very professional. I have a TBBS instance set up myself that you can select from my "main" BBS, which I use to really just expose people to its original games. They are so unique...moreso than MajorBBS, whereby all their unique doors kind of feel the same (which is not a bad thing, mind you). There's currently a TBBS effort underway by some folks to reinvigorate interest in the platform. NA> I was a huge fan and wrote some crude textfile-utils for John Souvestre's NA> hub system in the 90's. It seemed like him and many TBBS Sysops jumped NA> ship and started their own ISP businesses when the author invented a NA> router appliance and began pitching the Internet as the future. I'd love to see these utils you wrote if you still have them, or if you have anything TBBS related for that matter! --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64) * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (1:218/820) SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 18/200 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 153/7715 214/22 218/0 1 215 501 700 720 810 SEEN-BY: 218/820 840 850 860 880 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 113 SEEN-BY: 229/206 275 307 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512 SEEN-BY: 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 PATH: 218/820 700 229/426 |
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