Tony,

Cool. My first BBS machine was a hand built XT clone with a whopping 10MB HD

My first one was actually on a Radio Shack 32K Model 100 laptop...and
I still have the programs for it in the BBS's file area.

The birthplace of The Thunderbolt BBS was on an 8088 XT with 640K of
RAM, a 20 MB hard drive, a keyboard, mouse, monochrome green monitor, a
3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive, and DOS 3.2 -- how times have changed!!

A friend of my brother was working at Arkansas Children's Hospital at
the time, and they were upgrading all their computers in the spring of
1992. So, I got the computer as a birthday present.

Daryl

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The birthplace of The Thunderbolt BBS was on an 8088 XT with 640K of
RAM, a 20 MB hard drive, a keyboard, mouse, monochrome green monitor, a
3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive, and DOS 3.2 -- how times have changed!!

Tom Currie thought my system was overkill as I started with a 286 and
80mb on the hard drive. I remember it was an extremely high end system
back in the day. I can't remember what company made it but they
allegedly made the computers on the space shuttle. I can remember it
tossed mail a lot faster than other sysops computers could.

Made quite a few enemies back in the day becuase I had ALL of the fido
backbone available.

Allen
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Allen,

Tom Currie thought my system was overkill as I started with a 286 and AP>80mb on the hard drive. I remember it was an extremely high end system AP>back in the day. I can't remember what company made it but they AP>allegedly made the computers on the space shuttle. I can remember it AP>tossed mail a lot faster than other sysops computers could.

Plus, a nice feature of GT Netmail and Echomail was that, unlike
FIDONet and QWK style networks, systems that "sponsored" or "moderated"
an echo, had all new messages come to the HOST (sponsor) system FIRST,
BEFORE they went out to the network.

As an example, if you had a Bible Study area, and some system posted a raunchy joke in there, you could zap the message before it went out to
the rest of the network. Talk about a spam filter!!

I have several of the GT Power utilities and programs online over
here, as well as Virtual Advanced, and Synchronet...but I'm going to
stay with Synchronet from now on. What I'd like to do is get help on
adding things to the website, such as graphics.

However, while I can write a batch file for the BBS, my programming
ENDS at setting the clock on the microwave oven. If I forget how to do
that, I guess I'll starve to death. <G>

Made quite a few enemies back in the day becuase I had ALL of the fido AP>backbone available.

I'll bet. I carry a lot of echoes, because messaging was the original
purpose of BBS's. But, like the large number of doorgames (many which I registered over the years), I don't access all of them...but wish I had
more time to play them.

Daryl
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I'll bet. I carry a lot of echoes, because messaging was the original purpose of BBS's. But, like the large number of doorgames (many which I registered over the years), I don't access all of them...but wish I had
more time to play them.

If you'll remember I ruffled a lot of feathers on the GT+Power network
back in the day by running GT as a door on a wildcat system so that I
could continue to carry the network. Then BGQWK came along and I wrote
a script that converted GTPN echos to a QWK Net and I was directly
importing them into wildcat and then the responses back to GTPN. I
thought the guy who ran the "Dallas ManDate" was going to have a
conniption yet April Strong (can't remember the name of her BBS)
supported me.

Memories... glad I can still remember them. My biggest fear is that the
head injury has put an alzheimers like condition in motion. It's been 2
1/2 years since the injury and I still forget basic things.




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Allen,

If you'll remember I ruffled a lot of feathers on the GT+Power network AP>back in the day by running GT as a door on a wildcat system so that I AP>could continue to carry the network. Then BGQWK came along and I wrote
a script that converted GTPN echos to a QWK Net and I was directly AP>importing them into wildcat and then the responses back to GTPN. I AP>thought the guy who ran the "Dallas ManDate" was going to have a AP>conniption yet April Strong (can't remember the name of her BBS) AP>supported me.

All I remember about April Strong was she had a BBS in Dallas. Several
of the former GT Sysops are in a group on Facebook that Ed Cavendar
moderates. It's at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1657661443630165/

Or search for GT Power BBS -- it's a Closed Group.

Memories... glad I can still remember them. My biggest fear is that

the AP>head injury has put an alzheimers like condition in motion. It's
been 2 AP>1/2 years since the injury and I still forget basic things.

I suffered a severe concussion when I was 13, in falling of an 8 foot
vault in junior high school physical education class. Combine that with
the 2 lightning strikes, I get daily migraines. Plus, my short term
memory is terrible. I can lock a door, and not 3 seconds later, I can't remember if I locked it.

Before my wife died over 9 years ago, I told her that "if I forgot to
clean up after using the toilet, then I was in trouble". :P

No, I'm not there yet...and hope I never get to that point.

Daryl

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Daryl Stout to ALLEN PRUNTY on Wed May 18 2016 02:46 pm

Before my wife died over 9 years ago, I told her that "if I forgot to clean up after using the toilet, then I was in trouble". :P

So you're saying... you're in trouble? :-) J/K, couldn't help myself.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #22:
The third ever Synchronet BBS was The Beast's Domain (sysop: King Drafus). Norco, CA WX: 75.8øF, 55.0% humidity, 16 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-

My first one was actually on a Radio Shack 32K Model 100 laptop...and
I still have the programs for it in the BBS's file area.

Wow, that's going back a bit! :)

The birthplace of The Thunderbolt BBS was on an 8088 XT with 640K of RAM, a 20 MB hard drive, a keyboard, mouse, monochrome green monitor, a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive, and DOS 3.2 -- how times have changed!!

Sounds similar to my initial setup, except for you having a bigger HDD. :)

A friend of my brother was working at Arkansas Children's Hospital at the time, and they were upgrading all their computers in the spring of 1992. So, I got the computer as a birthday present.

Sounds about the same time I got my BBS together! :)


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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Daryl Stout to VK3JED on Tue May 17 2016 12:47 pm

A friend of my brother was working at Arkansas Children's Hospital at
the time, and they were upgrading all their computers in the spring of 1992. So, I got the computer as a birthday present.

I worked at a company in 1991-1992 where they had a closet of old crap that needed clearing out. My boss told me to "toss them in the dumpster".

My 1977 VW Rabbit was hastily christened "The Dumpster", and I ended up with a box of Anchor Signalman 2400 modems which got given out, a cool looking AT&T 6300 which went to a family friend as his first computer, a Compaq Portable II with a hard drive and an IBM AT Store Controller (an AT, but sturdier - made for running point-of-sale systems) which became the BBS system for many years.

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: ALLEN PRUNTY to DARYL STOUT on Tue May 17 2016 07:46 am

Tom Currie thought my system was overkill as I started with a 286 and
80mb on the hard drive. I remember it was an extremely high end system back in the day.

Just Say Yes ran on a 386 with 2 80 meg drives. The system had 2 nodes running on Desqview -- that was envy-producing back in the day.

I remember visiting Dr. Strangelove and seeing him chatting in 2 windows at once -- multitasking before we knew what it was.

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Rob,

Before my wife died over 9 years ago, I told her that "if I forgot to clean up after using the toilet, then I was in trouble". :P

So you're saying... you're in trouble? :-) J/K, couldn't help myself.

When preparing for a colonoscopy, I could very well be. :P

They've found polyps 3 times, but no cancer...and I don't have to go
through that again until 2018. The prep work is literally a PITA.

Daryl
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Tony,

My first one was actually on a Radio Shack 32K Model 100 laptop...and I still have the programs for it in the BBS's file area.

Wow, that's going back a bit! :)

I'm showing my age. <G>

Sounds similar to my initial setup, except for you having a bigger HDD. :)

Size does matter. LOL

Sounds about the same time I got my BBS together! :)

In looking back at the history file, I'm amazed at what all has
changed.

... Always drink upstream from the herd.

Definitely.

Daryl

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Thu May 19 2016 08:58 am

Rob,

Before my wife died over 9 years ago, I told her that "if I forgot to clean up after using the toilet, then I was in trouble". :P

So you're saying... you're in trouble? :-) J/K, couldn't help myself.

When preparing for a colonoscopy, I could very well be. :P

They've found polyps 3 times, but no cancer...and I don't have to go through that again until 2018. The prep work is literally a PITA.

I know what you're talking about all too well.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #28:
MODEM = Modulator/Demodulator
Norco, CA WX: 75.4øF, 57.0% humidity, 7 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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I'll bet. I carry a lot of echoes, because messaging was the original purpose of BBS's. But, like the large number of doorgames (many which I registered over the years), I don't access all of them...but wish I had
more time to play them.

I have been downloading a ton of newsgroups and have been adding more
daily. I'm trying to get the best of the best newsgroups... but
downloading them is very slow... filtering them with my killfile even
slower. I am able to remove 95% of the Spam and Sporge that's posted in
them.

Believe it or not newsgroup posts after 2011 are mostly spam free...
things went nuts in the 200x years and before.

Usenet is very much alive and I'm willing to make ultra filtered
newsgroups available by QWKnet or FidoNet

Allen


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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Daryl Stout to ALLEN PRUNTY on Wed May 18 2016 02:46 pm

Before my wife died over 9 years ago, I told her that "if I forgot to clean up after using the toilet, then I was in trouble". :P

So you're saying... you're in trouble? :-) J/K, couldn't help myself.

Any male who lives with a female has the "toilet" war going on. Seat up
seat down... mess on said seat. TP too thin... TP too rough... it's
best to have two bathrooms a hers and a mine.

Allen

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So you're saying... you're in trouble? :-) J/K, couldn't help myself.

When preparing for a colonoscopy, I could very well be. :P

They've found polyps 3 times, but no cancer...and I don't have to go through that again until 2018. The prep work is literally a PITA.

Whomever named that stuff in the gallong jug "Go Lightly" should be
shot... you go every way but LIGHTLY.

Allen
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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Thu May 19 2016 08:58 am

They've found polyps 3 times, but no cancer...and I don't have to go through that again until 2018. The prep work is literally a PITA.

Beer and Jello for 2 days, then save a good book for the day before prep. :)

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: ALLEN PRUNTY to DARYL STOUT on Thu May 19 2016 10:06 am

I have been downloading a ton of newsgroups and have been adding more daily. I'm trying to get the best of the best newsgroups... but downloading them is very slow... filtering them with my killfile even slower. I am able to remove 95% of the Spam and Sporge that's posted in them.

How are you killfiling them? With Synchronet? I just took off my newsgroups, the noise had gotten too bad and I was trying to isolate a 100% CPU condition on my BBS. Would love to add a handful of groups back with meaningful content.

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: ALLEN PRUNTY to DIGITAL MAN on Fri May 20 2016 10:27 am

Any male who lives with a female has the "toilet" war going on. Seat up seat down...

Close the lid and inconvenience both sexes.

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Poindexter Fortran to ALLEN PRUNTY on Sat May 21 2016 07:36 am

How are you killfiling them? With Synchronet? I just took off my
newsgroups, the noise had gotten too bad and I was trying to isolate a 100% CPU condition on my BBS. Would love to add a handful of groups back with meaningful content.

yeah there is some issue where polling newsgroups drags the whole bbs down.

newsgroups are just for binaries now. there may be a few people chit chatting here and there but there's no reason to use them for anything other than binaries now.

you can use the various can files for newsgroup filtering or you can manually edit the .js file to take out strings. i asked rob about that and he showed me where to throw that in. it might be searchable on vert.
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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Mro to Poindexter Fortran on Sat May 21 2016 12:40:37

newsgroups are just for binaries now. there may be a few people chit chatting here and there but there's no reason to use them for anything other than binaries now.

Lot of newgroups not Binairies are active and are Chit chat ing

you can use the various can files for newsgroup filtering or you can manually edit the .js file to take out strings. i asked rob about that and

Some server support only Text and more are one Filtering ADs/spam/flame
,Keywords

... Organization is the enemy of improvisation.

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Re: Where The BBS Started
By: Spacesst to Mro on Sat May 21 2016 10:42 pm

newsgroups are just for binaries now. there may be a few people chit chatting here and there but there's no reason to use them for anything other than binaries now.

Lot of newgroups not Binairies are active and are Chit chat ing

like 4 of them ?

you can use the various can files for newsgroup filtering or you can manually edit the .js file to take out strings. i asked rob about that and

Some server support only Text and more are one Filtering ADs/spam/flame
,Keywords

i dont know what you are saying but you can filter specific text with method i said.
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VK3JED wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

The birthplace of The Thunderbolt BBS was on an 8088 XT with 640K of RAM, a 20 MB hard drive, a keyboard, mouse, monochrome green monitor, a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive, and DOS 3.2 -- how times have changed!!

Sounds similar to my initial setup, except for you having a bigger HDD.
:)

You both have me beat... Again, not a sysop and never was, but my first
'dial up' machine was an 8088 with amber monochrome and dual 5.25" FDD. I
had DOS 6.22 but ran 3.3 most of the time. No HDD.


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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

Sounds similar to my initial setup, except for you having a bigger HDD.
:)

You both have me beat... Again, not a sysop and never was, but my first 'dial up' machine was an 8088 with amber monochrome and dual 5.25" FDD.
I had DOS 6.22 but ran 3.3 most of the time. No HDD.

Well, the year previously, I had no HDD, and the machine was a packet radio gateway/BBS, with a 5.25" and 3.5" floppy. I had the FTP file archives on the 3.5" (720k) floppy drive. Yep, I ran IP back then, using one of the NOS variants. :)


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