[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

[Ric Moore via TriLUG]

On 08/26/2016 03:09 PM, Gregory Woodbury via TriLUG wrote:

>> The last incarnation of The Wolves Den BBS in Durham was a unixbbs instance
> on a custom tower PC that was a birthday present from my Dad. It had two
> 320MB
> hard drives and was running SCO UNIX.  It nearly got caught up in the
> Operation
> Sundevil E911 computer fraud sweep, and one person reported me to AT&T for
> "selling" UNIX when I floated the idea of allowing paid members of the BBS
> to have
> access to the UNIX command line.
>
> Those were the days.

I ran "The Home for Wayward Computers" BBS in Beckley WV giving command 
line access to an early install of Slackware. I discovered that MaBell 
had "Grandma" lines, which cost about $8 a month with unlimited incoming 
and metered outgoing. I had two 8 serial port Dickens terminal servers 
donated and I had 8 modems squealing at once, plus a 28.8k modem 
dedicated to a wide-area line to Charleston WV to tie into my ISP. Plus 
I had 8 terminals and XT's connected serial to those servers as well. 
So, I could have 16 users on at once, running on a 486DX-2. It was a 
blast and was once of the biggest free BBS's on the east coast. I ran 
NightmareOS MUD and let the users have free rein building their 
imaginary worlds. One of my users is now grown up, married with children 
and working for Ubuntu. We didn't need no stinkin' HTML! :) Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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