Apple II BBS's (was: IIgs and Xebec scsi card)

[Bryan Villados <news001@nospam_macgeek.org>]

In article <8k8iq8$1ju$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, <bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote:

> In article <sme1afq6nu97@corp.supernews.com>,
>   "mrbrad" <mrbrad@ll.net> wrote:
> > if you don't want that xebec card i'll take it off your hands...you
> can
> > check with people on the net too verify this..but it is worth prob
> $5..i'll
> > give you that plus shipping in that i have around 2 or 3 of them i
> plan on
> > putting up my original 1983 apple net dos 3.3 bbs software and it
> allows
> > apple // dos 3.3 on a hd (sider's)
> 
> 
> That sounds like a reasonable price to me.  It is to a good cause too!
> Apple II BBS's rule!

I grew up on Apple II BBS's... I ran one of the earlier Networks II
software based BBS's (Pearl City Networks) from 1982 through 1985. In
the later part of its history, I interfaced ASCII Express Pro to
Networks II to perform binary file transfers (remember those
Integer/Applesoft ASCII downloads via your Micromodem II???).

] IN#2
] CTRL-A CTRL-F CTRL-A CTRL-D

One of my friends ran a multi-line chat system starting in the mid-80's
and ran until about three years ago. He ran it off of two Apple
II+'s... One Apple II+ was a modem pool, containing five Micromodem IIe
cards, and the other had the floppy drives. And he interfaced the two
via the game I/O port. Even today I'm amazed at that!

I miss the BBS days!

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Bryan Villados
Curator, Apple Museum-for-a-Day