Friar Tuck's BBS
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"When I first donwloaded RBBS-PC from the states, I did it ASCII.
I didn't know what xmodem was. So I took my noise corrupted
download, and began writing code to fill in the bits that were
missing. I ran this version for a few years, and some of my mods
made it back to the core code base. Eventually, we upgraded to the
excellent FidoBBS (and a Hayes modem at 2400 baud). I remember the
modem upgrade was like owning a bicycle and getting a rocket ship
for Christmas."
"It was run on an IBM PC/1 with a hacked motherboard to allow 640K
instead of 512K. I had 2 x 360K drives, 1 for the BBS software,
and one for the Daily Downloads. I communicated through a
pre-Hayes modem; The Cermetek Mutant Modem (as we called it)."
"Later, we recovered a Davong External Hard Drive from the Telus
trash bins, and built a hard drive interface. Then we had 10 Mb of
downloads (wooh). I believe we provided Edmonton's first dial up
access for sending and recieving Internet email. I was using
FidoBBS and Ham radio to move the mail. It was sneakernet everyday
to the guy at the end of the block with the Ham radio antenna. He
"beamed" our mail down to the states for us."
"Those were the days! It was a privilege serving my fellow geeks!"
- Tony Ruffo

Phone   : 780-464-3802
Place   : Edmonton, AB
Years   : 1981 - 1992
Sysop   : Syd and Tony Ruffo
Software: FidoNet, RBBS-PC

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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