Re: Is the Boycot BBS still up?

["brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

find a the software...(prob same..maybe they shared code)....i can prob find
the corvus units.....hehe...lol...

talk about spreading technology in the wrong direction...

(actually using my 700mhz laptop to talk about 1mhz apple //s is somewhat
dense too for that matter)

brad
former sysop lost-gonzo.com

(to those of us promoting technological progress ...in the wrong
direction....i've always been directionally challenged..but hey...the equip
from 1980's is really really cheap...hi...ho....back to the
80's....jeez....i'm a bloody luddinite...time to find my wooden shoes
(sabots) and use them in some machinery...(sabotage)....dang gum new fangled
gizmos anyway...grumble....wanders off mumbling to self...."let me tell you
sonnny it all started when they sabatoged the apple // line to go to
macs...........sound of cat being kicked..and more mumbling ...trails off in
distance)






"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:54:59 -0500, "brad" <mrbrad@ll.net> wrote:
>
> >now if i could just find the 1981 or so safehouse bbs software from
> >minneapolis, mn that used to run on 3 apple //e's with 2 corvus 20mb hd
and
> >networking and 2 phone lines...one //e acted as a control annd the other
2
> >//e's acted to run on each line...there was chat (shout) and he used to
have
> >time/temp and grab stuff off i think it was compuserve in text file form
as
> >articles...
> >
> >now that was the orig multi-line bbs ....alas..gone forever would be a
hoot
> >to get back up...but the author went poof like what...almost 1/4 century
> >ago...jeez i've been doing this too long
>
> The LOGIC users group in Toronto, Ontario used to have their BBS set
> up that way too, although I think it was 3 Apple IIe's with only one
> Corvus hard drive.  Two of the IIe's were connected to their own phone
> line (a member's only line and a public line) and the third IIe acted
> as the server.  They had the chat option too.  It was a pretty cool
> set up but they went and replaced it with a single Mac (and a single
> phone line) running a package I believe was called "Magic" that had a
> GUI front end for the Mac and the text interface really sucked.
>
> -- 
>  Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
>                  Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
>  CUT the obvious from my address if you want to e-mail me