RE: bbs or crude facsimile of such

2017-05-19 Thread Ali via cctalk
> At some point a version of BYE was created for the IBM PC, but as far > as I know, there was only a single release of it. > Any idea if the IBM version is available in an archive somewhere online? -Ali

Re: bbs or crude facsimile of such

2017-05-19 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, John Labovitz via cctalk wrote: Another BBS obscurity — I ran a BBS in the early 80s called The Bethesda RCP/M. Those of us who couldn’t afford dedicated lines often used a method called ‘ringback.’ This was a clever way to share a regular home phone with a modem. The i

Re: bbs or crude facsimile of such

2017-05-19 Thread John Labovitz via cctalk
Another BBS obscurity — I ran a BBS in the early 80s called The Bethesda RCP/M. Those of us who couldn’t afford dedicated lines often used a method called ‘ringback.’ This was a clever way to share a regular home phone with a modem. The idea was that if you wanted to dial up to the BBS, you’d c