Hello Michiel,

BF>>>> In case you didn't know it, Fidonet is and has always been a DOS
BF>>>> based network.
MvdV>>> Not any more.
MvdV>>> Systen running on pure DOS are the rare exceptions these days.

HD>> Mine for instance ;-).

MvdV> Wrong tense. Your DOS FrontDoor system /was/ one of the rare exceptions.
MvdV> It is no longer operational.

I still use it daily, I am writing on it now.
Only the transfer stopped (temporarely) because of a defective RS232 card.
Now I use the Raspberry Pi 1B2 with RISC OS and !ROSBink for that at IP.
Then I move the received pkt's to it by floppy disk, and the sended out ones
back to the Pi. The Acorn RiscPC is the central machine in the local net to
do the transfers. Part of it is automated.
When I am ready with the Husky system at Raspbian Stretch, than that will
become the UniCorn BBS machine, may be even with POTS again too.
I have an USB2A from/to RS232c cable wich works great for my AIS receiver at
the Pi 3B with OpenCPN 4.99.0 on Raspbian Stretch Linux 2018.

MvdV> It may have been the last of the Mohikans. ;-)

Yes.

MvdV>>> AFAIK no Fidonet mailer ever ran on an 8 bit system.
HD>> That is not completely sure.
MvdV> Note the "AFAIK".

That's why I was explaining it here.

HD>> Some guys of our othernet AcoNet wrote FTN BBCscan software for the 8
HD>> bit Acorn BBC B computers to communicatie with FidoNet systems.

HD> I too wrote software for my 8 bit Flex system to "communicate with
HD> Fidonet systems". I could use it to read and write messages posted on
HD> BBS's participating in Fidonet. But it was not a Fidonet mailer. It
HD> could not do FTS-1.

Our Acorn BBC B's could do later on with BBCscan.

HD>> That was at the end of the 80's start of the 90's.

MvdV> If that Acorn BBS system was really a Fidonet system, what was its node
MvdV> number and in which period was it in the Fidonet nodelist?

I donot know the Node numbers, but the first one was Evert Snel, he later on
moved from The Hague to Eindhoven area and transferred his body to become a
female, they call such people transgenders.
The other one was Simon Voortman in Ouddorp who still is a FidoNet node.
Later he changed his 8 bit machines for the 26 and 32 bit RISC OS machines.
There were two other 8 bit Acorn sysop's in AcoNet in the area of Alpen aan de
Rijn, but I do not know if they were FidoNetters too?

Henri.

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