Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Apr 12 2023 15:39:02

 pF>  pa> I was never a multi-node bbS - well; I did get up to two, but that
 pF>  pa> don't really count...
 pF> 
 pF>  My othernet hub, back in the day, ran 10 DOS nodes running Remote
 pF>  Access. He needed another node for a file server, some DOS-level
 pF>  networking that wasn't LANTastic, and a room full of beige desktops
 pF>  running on baker's racks with cabling everywhere. It was a pretty
 pF>  amazing sight to see back then.
 pF> 
 pF>  The saving grace was that he had these running in his office (he had a
 pF>  full-time consulting business) and power was included in the rent.

Thats rad - Remote Access was one of my fav softwares too... I liked it, Virtual and VBBS; they all felt kinda 'similar' IMO. 

I remember most multi-node boards in my area ran MajorBBS or... what was the one w/ the horse - Mustang.  

In the (419), the best multi-line board was Omni-Link... running Major BBS for its teleconferencing w/ games; its where I met most of my actual friends while in high school... I remember the house parties AT the Omni-Link house, and a few of us were able to get into that room - the one w/ all the beige CPUs and several monitors. :P 

That is one thing that IS gone - the days of a multi-node BBS sysop having an entire bbS room w/ hardware buzzing along. :P



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