Hello Michiel,

MvdV> So there was a sysop listed by the name of Evert Snel. That does not
MvdV> prove he ran an operational Fidonet system on an 8 bit machine does it.

Look here:

you unbelievable Thomas.
And also here:


His own written mailer was BBSCan with FTS001, and his Nodenumber was:
2:512/100.

The other 8 bit Acorn guys with an AcoNet and FidoNet Nodenumber were:
Richard Splinter from The Cage BBS, with CBBS at an Acorn Electron,
Jan Jaap van der Geer from Brother John BBS,
Peet Scholte from HUCO BBS at an Acorn Archimedes,
Simon Voortman from The Coast BBS at an Acorn BBC B,
BBS De Ranstad at an Acorn A3000,
And there were sure some more, even one in Danmark QuercusBBS!
also some Acorn systems in Germany;
Yeti Flensburg Birger Harzenetter,
ArcPool Wolfsburg Stefan Brueck,
ArcWay Berlin Andreas Itzigehl.
And the World of Cryton BBS at 2:201/226 in England.
Is this enough proof?

MvdV> And if he did, it does not negate that AFAIK no Fidonet node ever ran on
MvdV> an 8 bit system.

No, but you just gave the suggestion there were none.
That AFAIK is only a sort of security in case you missed something.

MvdV> It just shows that I do not know everything.

Of course not, No one knows everything, nothing to shame for.

MvdV> Regarding proving your point...

I told you many years before we had more systems running BBSes and exchanging
mail in both AcoNet and FidoNet on both 8 bit and 26 bit Acorn computers.
Also Jan Vermeulen was member of AcoNet and had Acorn computers,
but his BBS and mailer ran on dos PC's, so was mine.

MvdV> You have thrown up so many smoke screens by now

That's your coloured view.
I did not have the intention to hide something.
(S)he (Evelien) is still alive and kicking as you can see at her website.
You also know Simon Voortman.
He can stand that he ran his BBS at an Acorn BBC, including AcoNet, but
I am unsure when he started being a member of FidoNet,
or if he already changed his BBS to a 26 bit Acorn A5000 or Acorn RiscPC.
He also used his R7500 for that task some time.
Now he uses a Linux system with Husky.

MvdV> that I have lost track of whatever your point was. Congratulations.

I'll send you some Dutch files to prove more.

Henri.

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