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to: Rob Swindell
from: Dan Clough
date: 2023-04-10 13:55:00
subject: Re: BBS Software Timeout

-=> Rob Swindell wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 RS>   Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values
 RS>   By: Dan Clough to Nick Andre on Mon Apr 10 2023 12:12 pm

 >  NA> Same with TBBS... You bought the license but needed the serial
 >  NA> board for anything beyond 2 nodes. Then Fidonet was an add-on.
 >  NA> Remote access was an add-on... I mean, any BBS that came with a
 >  NA> freaking VHS installation video you just knew was going to be a
 >  NA> bit out of your league.
 >
 >  NA> https://archive.org/details/1993-bbs-tbbstape

 > Wow.  How cool is that.  I watched the whole video...  Hahaha, the
 > professionalism of the presentation is awesome.  What a different time!

 RS> I actually started to create a similar video for Synchronet
 RS> sysops around 1994 (I thought it was an original idea) and had
 RS> the video camera for (screen capture/recording wasn't really a
 RS> thing yet), high-end duplication quality SVHS VCR, script, etc,
 RS> but never really got around to finishing it before the sales
 RS> started to obviously slow down in 1995. Wish I had finished it.
 RS> :-(

Too bad, would have liked to have seen it.  If you have even a start of 
it, maybe convert if possible and upload to the YouTube channel?

Might look good next to the Blimp video.  :-)


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