From: TURTLE              
To: HACMAN              
Subject: hi             
Date & Time: 03/25/91 23:10:20
Message Number 14201

>...if I want my own board...then its just the software to buy.
 
You're running an IBM clone, right? I'd suggest checking out TP-Board
or RemoteAccess, both of which are Shareware and will only put you out
about twenty or thirty bucks to register. The more expensive BBS
packages (like Wildcat, which is a couple hundred bucks, I think)
are howling dogs that you don't want to come near (if someone offers
you Wildcat, run, don't walk, in the other direction). The only
commercial BBS package I've seen for the IBM that's any good is
TBBS, and it costs about $900 to set up...and you've got to be a pretty
good programmer, too, since it's actually a /language/ for writing
BBS systems.