Hello Henri,

On Thursday May 30 2019 16:36, you wrote to me:

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

 HD> I still use it daily, I am writing on it now.
 HD> Only the transfer stopped (temporarely) because of a defective RS232
 HD> card.

The transfer part is an essential part of a Fidonet node. Without the ability
to transfer files to other Fidonet systems it does not qualify as an
operational Fidonet system. The fact that you use it as a terminal to read
mail, does not make it an operational Fido system.

 HD> Now I use the Raspberry Pi 1B2 with RISC OS and !ROSBink for that at
 HD> IP.

So your Pi is the operational Fido system.

 HD> Then I move the received pkt's to it by floppy disk, and the sended
 HD> out ones back to the Pi. The Acorn RiscPC is the central machine in
 HD> the local net to do the transfers.

What you do with the pkt's is not pat of Fidonet strictly speaking.

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

 HD> Yes.

So write an article for the Smooze about it... :)

 MvdV>>>> AFAIK no Fidonet mailer ever ran on an 8 bit system.

 HD>>> That is not completely sure.

 MvdV>> Note the "AFAIK".

 HD> That's why I was explaining it here.

OK...

 HD>>> Some guys of our othernet AcoNet wrote FTN BBCscan software for
 HD>>> the 8 bit Acorn BBC B computers to communicatie with FidoNet
 HD>>> 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
 HD>> on BBS's participating in Fidonet. But it was not a Fidonet
 HD>> mailer. It could not do FTS-1.

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

Still not a Fidonet node...

 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
 MvdV>> its node number and in which period was it in the Fidonet
 MvdV>> nodelist?

 HD> I donot know the Node numbers, but the first one was Evert Snel, he
 HD> later on moved from The Hague to Eindhoven area and transferred his
 HD> body to become a female, they call such people transgenders.

Your point?


Cheers, Michiel

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