dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk.UUCP (01/15/88)
Hello everyone, I have a little request to make: I hope these newsgroups are reasonably appropriate [if they are not, my humblest apologies]. A friend of mine is about to become responsible for running a bulletin board for IBM PC users. He already runs a simple one-simultaneous-user FIDO system, but feels that he needs a more powerful system. He is keen on going all the way over to a computer conferencing system, and wonders what pre-written software [public domain, shareware, or commercial] is on offer. He intends to run such a beast on a single PC-AT, or possibly 386 machine. He can get 8 or 16 modems, and is confident that he can set them up as a single phone-line which selects the first unused modem. If necessary, he will write [or commission] such a system, but obviously he would prefer not to. He has heard of a system called Chairman. I have heard of CoSy [the BIX system??]. Can anyone give us more information on these or other systems? What O/S do they run on [do they run on PC's at all?] Please reply by mail, and if there's much interest I'll summarise any info I get.... [if you can't mail to me, for any reason, then post an article] Thanks in advance for any information, Duncan White. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dept. Of Computing, | Flying is the art of aiming oneself Imperial College, | at the ground and missing. London, SW7. | -- Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks England. | for all the fish.
Brice_Fleckenstein@milehi.UUCP (Brice Fleckenstein) (01/26/88)
It sounds like your friend is describing TBBS v2.0m rather precisely.
Have him contact eSoft at (303)-699-6565 for more information, or he
could look around his area for BBS's that happen to be running TBBS.
TBBS also talks to the international FidoNet, which has at least one
gateway to UseNet - I'm writing this on a FidoNet BBS.
OR, he could talk to bblue@crash.CTS.COM about obtaining a copy of Pnet
to run under UNIX - that package talks DIRECTLY to Usenet, if that's
important to him.
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