ISO Synergy Teleconferencing System reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-01 03:15 Hi. Back in the day I had a cracked copy of synergy teleconferencing system - STS, a DOS chat BBS software sorta based on ddial. It was lost years and years ago. Does anyone have a copy? Anyone know where I could look? The “Synergy” BBS software I’ve seen on various bbs software sites is not the same thing. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SqualorTrawler · 2021-06-01 16:39 As of a few years ago there was at least one STS up, accessible via some sort of telnet bridge, but I can't seem to find it now. I might suggest you log into RMAC ddial and ask around there if you haven't already: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/rmac-diversi-dial-station-34/ (Frankly it'd be fun for this subreddit to have some kind of scheduled chat on that system.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- blob537 · 2021-06-01 23:34 Man, I spent all of my teens on STS-13 (And a little on STS-16 -- the 537 in my username is my old user number from those two systems!). Good memories, good times, some of those people are still lifelong friends. I remember their copy protection was basically the serial port hardware they used. They had their own custom board to use for up to 8 lines and if the board wasn't present the software would start run for a few minutes and then reboot. I'd love to get a copy of that if something like it existed for nostalgia's sake. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-02 02:58 It existed. I have to assume some version of STS survives, but have no contact with the old sysops. I remember the cracked version could link. Need to spread the word! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-06-03 12:24 Wild.. I've been collecting BBS software since 1984 or so, never come across this one. Must have been limited to a few area codes? Adding to my "must find" list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-06-03 12:32 here is some good info - i believe the same someone else mentioned... the telnet address leads nowhere: ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy\_Teleconferencing\_System ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-06-03 12:33 here you go buddy - please share when you get a copy - this is a FACEBOOK user.. For whatever reason reddit would not let me paste a link directly. user: Kevin Paramore Text: Former Programmer at Lightspeed Electronics 1986 - 1988·Satellite Beach, Florida Responsible for design & programming of a text-based multi-line (phone line) teleconferencing system in PASCAL known as Synergy Teleconferencing System (STS), loosely-based on the concept of an older Apple-based program known as DiversiDial (or DDial). Featuring electronic mail, messaging, and eventually text- based games, and using custom-built serial cards and external modems, the system eventually supported a theoretical maximum of 34 simultaneous dial-up connections at 19.2 kilobits per second (on a single 286 computer), allowing networking with other STS stations, with the capabilty of giving a theoretically unlimited number of users to communicate in a text-based format nationwide or globally from point-to-point. Running continuously, the software ran from 1988 until the flagship station (Fantasia) was shut down in 1998 without having had a single (software-related) crash. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-18 17:49 Hopped into RMAC, didn't get much info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-18 17:50 I reached out to Kevin on LinkedIn, but I doubt he'll get back to me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SqualorTrawler · 2021-06-18 18:13 Paging: /u/lucidphreak Can you keep this on your radar? When I think of "one guy on the net I know of who is on the lookout for extinct or buried old software," your name comes to mind. (still no Blueboard?) /u/op00to -- I will keep it on mine as well. I am surprised it's gone, as it was up and running a few years back. We should have STS archived somewhere; it feels wrong that it has disappeared. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-18 23:30 I’ve been wracking my brain to find old STS sysops, but then we’d still have to crack it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SqualorTrawler · 2021-06-18 23:37 I found someone. If you look at the STS Wikipedia entry, the reference to that no-longer-running STS, I went into the edit page, and found the guy who put that into the Wikipedia page on Twitter. He responds: > Hey, yeah we ran one years ago, I think my buddy still has a couple, not sure if he would want to part with them.. I'll ask him ---------------------------------------------------------------------- litecoinboy · 2021-06-21 13:00 I miss the summer solstice parties ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-06-21 13:26 why? and yes, its now on my "looking everywhere for" radar... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-06-21 15:14 I'm seriously thinking about putting up a site dedicated to finding long lost bbs programs (for various platforms) and source code.. Sort of an extension of the bbsdocumentary archive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2021-06-21 15:15 I will also reach out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- blob537 · 2021-06-21 18:12 I think I miss the fireworks meets and the after parties the most lol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-21 19:06 He didn't seem to have a very active profile. Hopefully he sees it and decides it's worth digging out the old disks or whatever. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- op00to · 2021-06-21 19:09 It might be useful to link up with people who do software preservation. Rather than reinvent the wheel, you could possibly just start instantly contributing, just in your area of interest. Just an idea. I wish I had that kind of free time! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- litecoinboy · 2021-06-21 21:37 Ahh, yeah fireworks were pretty good, though the crowds were a little much. I kinda just miss the redicioulously broad spectrum of people who were mostly very accepting of everyone else.