JM> It's a Amiga 2000 with a GVP G-Force accelerator with a 40MHz 68030 and
 JM> a _old_ Quantum SCSI-II drive (120MB), a Golden Gate II-card and a ISA
 JM> NE-2000 NIC. AmigaOS 3.1 and 12MB RAM.  I run a Swedish BBS system
 JM> called NiKom (www.nikom.org) which is still in development. It's a
 JM> command based BBS system (no menus) which makes it really fast to use
 JM> and IMHO has more focus on discussions rather than ANSI graphics and
 JM> file leeching.  :)

Nice... I always thought that the heart and sould of the BBS's are the message
areas... nothing else really had the heart and soul.

 JM> It's all connected to the Interwebz via a 600Mbit/s fiber connection in
 JM> my home with my own IP addresses.

 JM> I also use Amibinkd for transferring the fido messages and that
 JM> software has caused more headaches than any of my four kids. I've
 JM> managed to get the last version (9.02 if memory serves) but it still
 JM> brings down the entire Amiga from time to time and I am yet to find a
 JM> working replacement for it. There is a "official" Amiga port of Binkd
 JM> but it lacks some features needed so I can't use it.

I am impressed... and you have never had any capacitor failures?  My amiga is
not used so much for anything other than nostalgic games.  I've not hooked up
anything more to it than that.

I remember calling a few of the Amiga BBS's here in Louisville when they were
popular.  We had a computer store that dealt with them a long time ago, it was
ran by Scott Horan (he wrote a lot of programs back in the day for
communications with the Amiga and was one of my old High school teachers) it
was called "Mr. Horan's Computer Lab".

http://www.floydsfork.org/cr/cr_horan.htm

The store has long since closed and I know he retired many years ago.  I am
shocked that this page is still up as that's how I remembered him in the
1980's.  He dealt with the Amiga mostly as it was his favorite computer.

My first coding was done on a c64 which I quickly sold and upgraded to an
Amiga.  I ran my BBS on an old 8-bit atari 800 and would never ever consider
putting my precious Amgia up as the BBS machine.  Then as luck would have it, I
won a PC... and for it's time it was a NICE machine it was a 286 in a time when
the BBS World here was dedicated by the XP machines.  I put it up as my BBS
machine and the Livewire operated under it for a while.  Even though it was a
PC BBS it had a very active Atari and Amiga community... the PC was the
public's ... the Amiga was mine.  As I progressed toward school the poor little
amiga was relegated to a table in the Basement of my parents house where it's
been kept safely through all these years with a sheet covering it.  I plugged
it in and it still boots... speaks volumes for the quality.  I still have the
old atari 800... it won't boot any longer :-( It had a 10MB which for a little
8 bit system was massive for it's day.

I had more fun on my AMIGA than any other computer I had... slowly the
computers became more and more tools of a career and their fun factor
diminished... but then again, that's growing up.

I wish you the best in developing your nikom.org bbs.  Hope you consider
putting an English section to it and sharing it with the world.

/\llen

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