Roel Bruggink wrote in a message to Gerry Danen:
 RB> English:
 RB> I've stopped with my BBS.
 RB> It was far te much work to set it up and I've got a to little
 RB> HardDisk. About 220 Meg.
I started my BBS on a 25 Mb HDD. It was part time at that stage although it 
had a dedicated line, reason being it was to noisey and in my room (couldn't 
move it elsewhere). I also had a machine with a 40Mb HDD that was linked to 
the BBS machine via a parallel cable and FastLynx server/client s/ware.
Both of these machines were 286 10Mhz machines, only one had an EGA monitor. 
The BBS took off well.
Later I got a 386sx20 with a 120Mb HDD, and with that *INCREDIBLE* amount of 
space I was able to expand my BBS more than my wildest dreams. Then came the 
200Mb HDD, and the BBS sat with that for almost a year, still a very popular 
system. 
It now sits in a 486dx2-50 with 3Gig HDD space. 2G of that came from a 
donation of a drive from a user, and replaced the 200Mb mentioned above 
(whihc was $60NZ second-hand). The 486 came from a donation of a tape-drive 
from another user, which I swapped for the motherboard+CPU.
My system has been runnin straight for almost 3 years now. I've had a lot of 
users, and a few decent donations which have really helped.
It's a struggle, but hang in there. You have a better start with 220Mb of HD 
space than any other SysOp I personally know, or most cases I've heard of 
(including some who used dual 360Kb floppies).
Keep going. It's a struggle at times, but it's *always* worth it.
Cya..
Dave 
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