BCSnet Host
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Also listed as: Boston Computer Soc.

"This was a 6-line installation running on an IBM PC XT machine
using an Alloy Computer Products extension system unit that
contained 6 different computers. Each computer was a single board
containing CPU, memory, serial ports, etc. (What were later to be
called "blades".) All the comuters shared the same hard drive and
message base.
"This was one of the earliest multi-line BBS systems in continuous
operation. It supported a community of IBM PC users for the Boston
COmputer Society which had approximately 42,000 members at its
peak.
"Most of the time the system was operational it ran out of a
closet in a dormitory at Wellesley College. This was my residence
at the time.
"It took some convincing to talk the phone company into installing
6 residential phone lines into one location. They thought I was
running a bookie operation. It then took some doing for the
technician to find 6 spare wire pairs running through thr campus
that he could use for these lines. We spent several hours tracing
through the basements of buildings until we found the connections
we used.
"While running the BCSnet Host BBS using the Alloy Computer
Products blades we were using RBBS, not TBBS. We switched to TBBS
when we moved the system to Cambridge, MA into the Boston Computer
Society offices near Davis Square. The system was later moved to
Waltham, MA when the entire BCS offices moved there." - Doug
Chamberlin

Phone   : 617-237-3750
Place   : Wellesley, MA
Years   : 1984 - 1987
Sysop   : Doug Chamberlin, D. Chamberlain
Software: RBBS-PC, TBBS

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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