In fact, for all I know, I may possibly be the only Macintosh SysOp left! Let me share some of my personal BBS history with you. My fellow Mac users will understand how I feel. To my amazement, out of a list of about 350 or so telnet-accessible BBSes on the list, not one single one of them was a Macintosh BBS. Just yesterday, I downloaded the March 2015 edition of The BBS Corner's "The Telnet & Dial-Up BBS Guide". That's because I've spent the past few days surfing the web, looking for Macintosh-based and Macintosh-oriented, telnet-accessible BBSes. I was very happy to discover a discussion group called "Macintosh Bulletin Board Systems", because to be honest, I have felt like a fish out of water. I discovered your board yesterday while searching with Google. I wonder what happened to authors of these other systems. The guy who wrote FirstClass continues to develop FirstClass Server to this very day. I also remember Hermes being a great ANSI graphics-driven BBS package, though I could never figure out why anyone bothered to write such a thing for the Mac. Strangely enough, a vendor that RMC mentioned still sells and supports TeleFinder: I'd love to know more about how it worked under the hood. On a 2400bps modem, the experience was almost unbearable. I do remember trying out a few ResNova boards. Nobody can figure out why I'm so nostalgic about such a horrible system.
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(I actually found one of these babies recently along with four hardware-handshaking serial cables, all sealed in their anti-static bags.)įor the past few years, I've found myself administering FirstClass systems at work. About a thousand users and six phone lines, all served up from a IIsi (then a IIfx) with a Hurdler quad serial card.
Yes, I remember! The Revelation BBS was one of the largest FirstClass systems in western Canada at one point.