Subj : TBBS
To : Allen Prunty
From : Shawn Highfield
Date : Thu May 12 2016 02:51 pm
Allen Prunty wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:
AP> TBBS was an amazing system... Every message conference on my system
AP> had it's own menu. It was quite easy to use if the sysop took time
You could do that with RA and PCB which I'm sure you know. :)
AP> Unfortunately, I had over 500 360kb floppies they were all low
AP> density then the high density ones were not developed yet. I tried
AP> to restore from backup but one critical disk would not load so it
That's a shame. That's what happended with my Telegard setup as well.
Well... bad backup tape.
AP> wrote Toped and a lot of RA utilites. They talked me into changing
AP> to RA which I ran for many years before I went to wildcat version 3
AP> then to PCBoard... which had issues for me. I went back to Wildcat
AP> 4 to get UUCP back... users were revolting since they lost access to
I ran RAUUCP at that time. It worked. ;)
AP> TBBS was, by far, the best that I ever ran hands down period! But
AP> it was customized to the n'th degree and when it crashed I did not
AP> have a means to restore it to it's full glory without months of
AP> downtime.
Still a shame man, I'd have loved to see a configured one. :)
Shawn
... I knew she was shareware the first time I laid eyes on her.
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