CD-BBS ====== Also listed as: Christian Deliverance BBS "809-292-1774 and 809-292-7376: all the same BBS. It had three phone lines at it's peak. Both of those numbers you have listed belonged to the same BBS, just different lines. The full name was Christian Deliverance BBS, and was abbreviated Christian Deliverance or just CD-BBS by our users (we also had up to 8 CD-ROM drives online at one point for downloads). Bermuda Net was the name of our local Fido network, of which CD-BBS was the primary node or gateway for the others. The BBS itself was never called Bermuda Net, but was known as the "home of Bermuda Net". CD-BBS started in 1988 and ran until early 1999, basically killed off by the Internet which became available here in the mid '90s. It's location for most of that time was Devonshire Bermuda, and I was it's main sysop from the beginning to the very end. Two years before an ISP existed here we started to offer internet e-mail to our users. CD-BBS joined FidoNet in 1992 or 1993, but as early as 1989 belonged to the GT Power Network, and offered users international netmail through that BBS network. CD-BBS was also a member of FamilyNet, a Fido-technology network, for most of the time it belonged to FidoNet. Other than for a very short trial period in the beginning (a few months maybe), CD-BBS first ran GT Power, then Maximus (first the DOS version then later the OS/2 version when the extra phone lines were added), and finally for the last year of it's life ran Wildcat! (Windows version). For most of it's life, Maximus/2 was the software behind it, and it was solid - both the operating system (OS/2) and the BBS software. At one point it ran for nine months without a single reboot, all the while hosting users, handling our incoming satellite feed for echoes and file feeds, managing both incoming & outgoing internet connections, running door games, etc. CD-BBS had a number of firsts for a BBS in Bermuda: - first to offer international netmail - first to offer echoes (messages) - first to offer dialup speeds above 9600bps - official McAfee anti-virus update distribution site (before they had a retail version or web site) - first to offer Internet e-mail (ahead of any ISP here) - first & only to ever use a satellite dish to receive files & echoes - first to use the internet to deliver/receive netmail and echomail - first to offer limited internet access to our own users - first to become accessible from the Internet - first to offer the short-lived RIP graphics - first to offer multiplayer door games - first to offer multi-user chat - most phone lines - most message areas - most users - most files online (most storage) At eleven years total running it was not the most long-lived BBS in Bermuda - that honour went to BerMUG. But BerMUG catered only to Apple users and required a special client. CD-BBS was accessible to anyone with a modem and had a wide variety of software available for download." - Craig Clark Phone : 809-292-1774 Years : 1988 - 1999 Sysop : Craig Clark Software: GT Power, Maxiumus, Wildcat! 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ gopher://hp84.com/ | https://ge97.com/ .