History of Computers, part 1 — The Bulletin Board System
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hiljusti · 2020-02-07 07:21

Odd place in history to start the history of computers but I'll roll
with it

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wndrbr3d · 2020-02-07 10:25

HISTORY OF THE WORLD - PART 1: THE WAR OF 1812 😜😜

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TheLimpingNinja · 2020-02-07 14:22

A little awkward with the comment:

>"Most BBS-es in existence ran on operating systems such as DOS, CP/M,
Apple ProDOS and other non-multitasking systems. That meant only one
instance of the BBS server could be running on a single computer at a
time.
>
>One user. One computer.
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>Want to have a BBS that ran on, say, MS-DOS that could allow two
people to connect at the same time? You'd need a second computer..."

While relatively true, I think that only really held to the mid-80s;
TBBS, MajorBBS, Oracomm, DLX and a handful of smaller software
packages that handled pre-emptive multi-tasking and multi-line on one
system very well; and beyond those DesqView worked great. I get that
he's trying to drive home a point, but I'd think that what was more
impressive to me was those people setting up massive 32-line bulletin
boards and the hardware (Galactiboards!), phone-lines, and cute tricks
(call forwarding from different geo-locations to minimize cost for
users)...

Still not bad to watch and I like that people are still reporting on
it today ;-)

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mro_1337 · 2020-02-10 17:11

lunduke is pretty ignorant when he talks about bbses.  i dont know why
some bbs people idolize him.   i guess they're looking for another
jason scott

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TheLimpingNinja · 2020-02-10 17:34

I thought it was an odd comment, I was messing around late 80s and 90s
with BBS' quite a bit - and when I finally decided to run one in the
very early 90s the first thing I did was set up DesqView and a multi-
line system with various software to figure out which I liked. I
believe around that time (91/ish) there were a handful of MajorBBS,
TBBS, a PCBoard, and a Maximus/CBCS (with custom coded teleconference)
all > 8 nodes in our area, and two of them was a 32-node.

I never did get a full multi-node system up, I ended up programming
MUDs instead but I think you are right; I'm probably just as culpable
- clinging to the last dredges of reminiscence. I'll stop :D

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mro_1337 · 2020-02-11 06:09

>I thought it was an odd comment, I was messing around late 80s and
90s with BBS' quite a bit - and when I finally decided to run one in
the very early

i loved bbsing too but those days are over. the people are different
and the times are different. we should just enjoy it for what it was
and not expect things to be the same.

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 there's nothing wrong with loving something for what it was and
understanding that it cant truly exist in today's age.