Subj : Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
To   : Dan Clough
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Apr 10 2023 10:43 am

  Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
  By: Dan Clough to Nick Andre on Mon Apr 10 2023 12:12 pm

 > -=> Nick Andre wrote to Dan Clough <=-
 >
 >  NA> On 10 Apr 23  07:31:00, Dan Clough said the following to Nick
 >  NA> Andre:
 >
 >  DC>  NA> This is true.. If you bought either MBBS or TBBS it was an
 >  DC>  NA> investment that you wanted recouped. I never once saw a totally
 >  DC>  NA> "free" one of those systems until much later, when the novelty
 >  DC>  NA> wore off.
 >
 >  DC> Do you recall how much it was back then?  I ran a purchased/registered
 >  DC> copy of PCBoard back in the 90's, and I think it was either $125 or
 >  DC> $150, which was a significant cost for me back then.  Also registered
 >
 >  NA> I can't remember exactly. I keep thinking MajorBBS was at least a
 >  NA> few hundred and they upsold you on the "Galaticboard" serial card
 >  NA> which was another couple hundred bucks.
 >
 >  NA> Same with TBBS... You bought the license but needed the serial
 >  NA> board for anything beyond 2 nodes. Then Fidonet was an add-on.
 >  NA> Remote access was an add-on... I mean, any BBS that came with a
 >  NA> freaking VHS installation video you just knew was going to be a
 >  NA> bit out of your league.
 >
 >  NA> https://archive.org/details/1993-bbs-tbbstape
 >
 > Wow.  How cool is that.  I watched the whole video...  Hahaha, the
 > professionalism of the presentation is awesome.  What a different time!

I actually started to create a similar video for Synchronet sysops around 1994 (I thought it was an original idea) and had the video camera for (screen capture/recording wasn't really a thing yet), high-end duplication quality SVHS VCR, script, etc, but never really got around to finishing it before the sales started to obviously slow down in 1995. Wish I had finished it. :-(
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