The Penthouse Suite
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"Ran on an Atari 130XE, two disk drives (a modded Atari 1050 drive
[Single Sided/Double Density] 180KB, and a Teac [Single
Sided/Double Density] 360KB), originally an Atari 1030 modem
(110/300 baud) then later to a Supra 110/300/450 baud and then
eventually a Volks 300/1200 baud via an Atari 850 RS232
interface/adapater. The software was written by Total Control
Systems (TCS) which was also in San Diego and not that far from
where I lived at the time so I was able to visit and talk with the
developer. The XE version was a huge upgrade over the previous
versions. If you were lucky enough to have the 130XE you could
take advantage of the additional 64K of RAM by making it a RAM
disk and then loading the menus and other text files. This would
speed up the performance of the site and give you more space for
storage. About a few months of owning the software, I modified the
message base to resemble CNET (another popular C64 BBS software).
I felt their message base/layout/etc was clean. At one point I
hooked up an Atari 800XL, wrote a "connector" and setup a
multi-lined BBS. I remember running into problems with the message
base. Reading messages were fine, it was only if two people were
replying to the same message. In the end I fixed it by using part
of the RAM disk as a cache/buffer but that mean sacrificing
loading menus and other text files up in RAM. Eventually I went
back to a single lined system as the other line was actually our
house line so it was only avaialble at night. I pulled the BBS
offline in '86 when I moved with plans to set it back up again but
never did - just wasn't into BBS' anymore, Those were some fun
times, however." - Robert Kuhn

Phone   : 619-279-2722
Place   : San Diego, CA
Years   : 1985 - 1986
Sysop   : Robert Kuhn
Handles : aka: Rammy
Software: TC-BBSxe (modified)

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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