"Timothy Cornett"  wrote in message
news:41970647.252.bbs_door{at}baddog.no-ip.com...
>  > No doubt, keeping our options open is half the battle :=) Al
>
> Well just remember the more options you offer the more bbses you'll get
and
> the happier that they will be. Of course the reverse is also true, the
more
> options you offer, the more complicated it'll be to coordinate. :)
>
> - Timothy Cornett

True, some of us actually did some of the first ALL FTP BRE transfer league
using just FTP transfers well before the use of Transx and IREX.
KA9Q and a few early modified versions of it were powered in just DOS. I
remember having Front Door shelling out just to have KA9Q with
it's built-in packet driver. Dial-up my provider. Run a large FTP script and
shell back to Front door just to wait for dial in users.

Front Door's event manager could even be programmed to run a soft event and
dial-out using KA9Q every hour on the hour. Of course at the time
Internet access and bandwidth was very limited compared to today's options.
There again you could run a BBS on a 386 machine.

It was amazing to have BRE turn-around times in hours instead of days. There
again we also had players that were addicted to the game. Version 953
had all that money rolling in.

Thank goodness Dennis's games we are just trading scores and bragging rights
:=)

Al
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