-> AP> The best incarnation of my BBS was with TBBS...

->   I always saw TBBS boards as those corporte ones hardware companies ran to
-> update your drivers.  I never saw a TBBS that was configured more then the
-> stock out of the box setup. :(
  
TBBS was an amazing system... Every message conference on my system had
it's own menu.  It was quite easy to use if the sysop took time to
develop their own UI.  The machine it was on got hit by lighting and
back then I did not have a USB drive or carbonite to back it up.  My
setup was very elaborate and everyone said it was the best incarnation
of the livewire ever.

Unfortunately, I had over 500 360kb floppies they were all low density
then the high density ones were not developed yet.  I tried to restore
from backup but one critical disk would not load so it was lost forever.
I went from TBBS to an earlier form of QUICKBBS and I did not stay
there long because I outgrew the Hudson MSG Base.

->   The message areas never seemed easy to use to me either... Too bad there
-> isn't one left running anywhere that had been configured.
                                               
Oh, mine were VERY easy to use... the interface was much like QuickBBS /
RemoteAccess.... even more refined since I fine tuned it.  John and
Steve Richardson was in Louisville at the time and they wrote Toped and
a lot of RA utilites.  They talked me into changing to RA which I ran
for many years before I went to wildcat version 3 then to PCBoard...
which had issues for me.  I went back to Wildcat 4 to get UUCP back...
users were revolting since they lost access to internet e-mail that I
had with TBBS.  It was there in PCB but VERY VERY limited.  I stayed
with Wildcat for many years after that very satisfied.

TBBS was, by far, the best that I ever ran hands down period!  But it
was customized to the n'th degree and when it crashed I did not have a
means to restore it to it's full glory without months of downtime.

Allen
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