Subj : Re: Hope all of my Pi sysops are safe! To : Ray Sbaitso From : Blue White Date : Sat Apr 11 2020 10:22 am -=> Ray Sbaitso wrote to Blue White <=- RS> My local PBS station never carried it, but I happened to be close RS> enough to the RS> Canadian border at the time to receive 3 Canadian channels over the RS> air and on RS> cable so I was able to catch them on there. In my mind the episodes RS> were split into two parts, snowy (aka over the air) and clear (aka on RS> cable). It's funny that years later that's still how I remember it. RS> When I got Netflix years ago I got a bunch on DVD to watch and it was RS> really strange to see the snowy episodes clearly! LOL, that is how I feel about some shows I watched when I was younger. I did not have cable until ~ 1994, so rewatching a lot of the shows later on cable (or on DVD) really made a difference. WKRP in Cincinnati and M*A*S*H are two examples I can think of. RS> It's easy to just see all the problems on a lot of the web forums and RS> forget there were (and still are) places that aren't like that. Not to RS> say that all was always good and kind in BBS land of course. ;) True but, overall, I have always enjoyed BBS land more. :) RS> The amount of continuing development is amazing on some of the RS> platforms. I'm on an Amiga BBS package now that I was never on when RS> BBSes were new and it's almost like I was always on this software. I RS> just took to it from the first time I used it. There really is no RS> active development on it, which is a shame, RS> but the base software keeps moving along and doesn't know or care RS> about what it can or can't do compared to other BBSes. I still run a BBS on the original BBS package I started with in 1988, GT Power. The last production version was released in 1994, and that is what I run. I also have this board running MagickaBBS (which is a recent package still in development), and one running Synchronet (still in development). They both can be customized to have the look-and-feel of a "hayday" BBS package, or to look very futuristic... however you want! RS> It sounds interesting and I've always wanted to run my own BBS, but RS> I've been fortunate enough to find a few to frequent that provide RS> everything I need. Some systems have next to no active users beyond the RS> Sysop and I hate to see that. BBSes need users too and I enjoy RS> visiting the different digital neighborhoods. RS> What software do you run? I think I went ahead and answered that above but it is MagickaBBS that runs on the Pi. You have to download the code from github and compile it yourself, but it works great on the Pi. That machine does not have many active users, but the other two do a little better... the oldest one still offers dial-up, which pulls a few users in (at least for a while) who are really looking for the nostalgic BBS experience. :) .... A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.... --- MultiMail * Origin: Possum Lodge South * possumso.fsxnet.nz:7636/SSH:2122 (314:314/25.5) .