Micro/Access
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"The Micro/Access BBS system grew out of the need to service the
product line of the JLS/Vidtek Big Board project. The JLS Big
Board was a reincarnation with hardware and software enhancements
of the original Ferguson Big Board Z80 single board computer
system sold to hobbyists. Redesigned by Joe L. Sutherland, with
input from Bob Kamins, with later hardware, firmware and software
fixes by Max Southall, it was a solid CP/M-80 based system which
also was the basis for the Xerox 820 series. Customers (or any
others) of the Big Board were charged $50 a year for access, which
eventually included email access to the then research-oriented
internet. There were hundreds of paying customers. The BBS
software based on Bob Kamins' work was written in Microsoft's
BASIC, and compilation was with Microsoft's M80 compiler.
"Eventually Max Southall completely rewrote Stuart Lynne's (yes,
the later ICANN chairman) UUPC program and incorporated an email
program interface, all in assembler, which connected the
Micro/Access BBS users via UUCP to Unix-based internet-based
communications.
"Prior to 1985, the system was known online as the Vidtek system,
which grew out of manufacturing video and CP/M boards for the
Apple ][ clone systems. SCSI hard disk subsystems were
manufactured and sold for the Big Board and sold all over the
world, and the BBS used the same hardware as was sold to
customers." - Max Southall

Phone   : 416-463-9360
Place   : Toronto, Ontario
Years   : 1983 - 1993
Sysop   : Max Southall
Software: Custom by Bob Kamins and Max Southall

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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