Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : paulie420
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Sep 14 2022 08:56 am

  Re: Re: BBS platforms
  By: paulie420 to Nightfox on Tue Sep 13 2022 04:56 pm

 pa> Back in the 90s, I ran my first bbS on a 286 machine w/ DOS - my parents
 pa> were upset that since I had a new hobby, I needed both a phone line AND
 pa> the full use of my computer to do so. After that machine, I ended up
 pa> getting a 386 & 486 - and settled on using the 386 as my daily driver and
 pa> the 486 w/ Desqview to run the bbS. :P They could never understand why I
 pa> wanted to do so. :P 

:)  If it was your computer, why were they upset you needed full use of your computer?
A couple years after I got my first PC (with a modem), my parents decided to get a 2nd phone line for my computer so I could use my modem any time and not tie up the phone line (and also because they said a couple times the modem was answering our phone :P).  I'm grateful they were willing to get a 2nd phone line for me..  I started setting up a BBS pretty much right a way (that was 1994).  At the time, I had a 386SX-16.

 pa> When I came back to bbSing, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 - and then a 4 - to
 pa> run 2o for a couple years. It worked well, but I had some issues w/ local
 pa> door games running Linux on the ARM hardware. Both ran Raspberry Pi OS,
 pa> which is a Linux Debian flavor. 

That's cool.  For my current BBS, I was running it on a PC with Windows, and I moved it to Linux about 5 months ago.

Nightfox
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