Subj : Re: the Night Owl BBS
To   : Gamgee
From : Brianm
Date : Sun Jan 12 2025 00:32:22

  Re: Re: the Night Owl BBS
  By: Gamgee to Brian Martin on Thu Jan 02 2025 08:10:33

 > -=> Brian Martin wrote to MRO <=-
 > 
 >  > so what do you call evenings?
 >  > it's 6pm my time and no connect
 > 
 >  BM>   I bring up the Host around 7pm GMT
 >  BM> usually and it runs till the early
 >  BM> hours, usally around 6am. With North
 >  BM> America east coast being 5 hours behindthat'd be from about 2pm-1am so
 >  BM> stil counts as evening for those in the
 >  BM> East. Westerly places I suppose
 >  BM> couldn't describe it as an evenings
 >  BM> only BBS, more of late morning-
 >  BM> afternoon, sorta thing. Would welcome avisit from you , sincerely Brian > 
 > Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age?
 > That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
 > don't have internet access 24 hours a day?
 > 
 >  BM>  = Synchronet = My Brand-New BBS
 > 
 > You should fix this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit
 > --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
 >  þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
An Acorm Master 128 is an 8bit machine, which has one serial input, therefore
only one caller at a time. My machine is now 40 years old so a 24/7 operation
is not a good idea for a machine thats so old. The board is very,very retro

and a reflection of what Viewdta boards were like in the 1980's UK. So a
limited schedule is appropriate and consistemt with how things were back then.
Viewdata is now available with SyncTerm. You can access a new versio here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/


Thanks Brian ..

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