Subj : Re: Ancient BBS Programs
To   : paulie420
From : tenser
Date : Mon Jun 12 2023 11:03 pm

On 11 Jun 2023 at 06:19p, paulie420 pondered and said...
 
 pa>  te> It's been fun to play with truly ancient "BBS" programs
 pa>  te> on retro systems.  Things like `BBOARD` on TOPS-20 or
 pa>  te> `forum` or `xforum` on Multics are both very usable, and
 pa>  te> also quite interesting in their own right.
 pa> 
 pa> Where have you been playing with these softwares?
 pa> 
 pa> I just hunted for the 'PDP-10 SAIL Goodbye Message' and came up deuces.

I have.  I run both TOPS-20 on an emulated PDP-10 and
Multics on an emulated DPS-8/M on my ham radio network;
both are connected to AX.25 and IP networks.

A copy of the SAIL farewell message is at:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/AIlab/SailFarewell.html

If one installs, say, the Panda distribution of TOPS-20
on a KLH-10 and runs `bboard` it'll pop up.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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