we ran ours first on a hp-2000 then migrated to a hp-3000 final version had 100 boards on it email , multi user chat, poll and voting and much more. yep it kicked ass! The machines were used also as board test machines etc when needed and also some were used as sale of computer time to people tthat had developed an application and did not want to rewrite it for a pc. ... and I found they were better to just run rather than turn on and off.. but they drew power! and they generated heat. ... nothing like having a 10 platter 500 lb drive as a leg warmer next t o your desk. Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 5/18/2017 1:23:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote: > Never forget, BBS were about storage and cheap which at that time were mostly > opposed (disks weren't cheap!). The amount of Ram and CPU were less > important > considering what had to be done. Often the modem and hard disk were as > costly > as the basic system and we didn't exceed 2400 baud till '85or later. Most > anything > could keep up with IO at under 4800 baud. > Here's what amounts to a canonnical(sp?) list of BBS programs for a number of different platforms: http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/ g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
