Subj : Re: I need help from BBS experts! To : alt.bbs.ads From : "Tom Miller" Date : Sat Dec 13 2003 10:19 am Wow, I see where your coming from, but I would find it very hard to believe someone would have that old a system still intact. A lot of bbs sysops upgrade incrementally (which is 1 way to "buy it on time"). So even if I had that system at 1 time, the motherboard, hard disk, modem, monitor etc will all been moved on/off to the trash.... Tom "Marc Abrahams" wrote in message news:da91d15b.0310300835.37cc9d6d@posting.google.com... > Hi all, > > I'm working on a patent-related project on my new job that has me > searching for hardware from ancient BBS systems. Does anyone still > have an ORIGINAL BBS server from 1989 or earlier? I mean the very > same computer that ran the BBS, with the same hard disk, with the same > BBS software and file archives. The more complete the system, the > better. For example, it would also be desirable to have the same > modem (or modem pool) and monitor. Better still to have logs of files > downloaded by users. > > If you still have this old hardware, software and other stuff, please > drop me an e-mail. I'd like to ask you some questions about your > system. > > Thanks! > > Marc > > oldbbsstuff@yahoo.com > oldbbsstuff@hotmail.com .