Demand for a BBS?

[Rabbi]

James wrote:
I was wondering...as I am presently setting up a little BBS.

Is there any demand for an oldschool BBS at all? I know we've moved forward to this internet thing here...but still. Personally I never quite got the feeling of community I had back in the days of the BBS.

In any case.. here are my questions:
1- Would you use a telnet BBS?
2- What would make you use such a system?
3- Would you contribute to keep the site up?
4- What do you expect in terms of file transfers?
5- Doors?

1- Yes
2- an Amiga Telnet client that supports RIP graphics & the use of RIP graphics on the BBS.
3- Depends what's offered
4- Certainly no pirated or cracked s/w, as I'm a programmer myself, albeit a mainframe programmer.
5- interactive games, like chess, etc.

Is there an Amiga telnet client that supports RIP graphics?  I know that my dial-up bbs client s/w, Termite, supports it.  I like it & point & click is faster than reading, especially for those of us, like me, who can't read a lick. :lol:

[Rabbi]

odin wrote:
Ah, the magical days of 14k4 long distance calling and huge phonebills.

Heck, I started out dialing at 300 bps on a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (U.S. equivalent of the Sinclair ZX81) & saving on cassette tapes.  I progressed to the Timex/Sinclair 2068 (U.S. equivalent of the Sinclair Spectrum) with the 3" CF2 Portuguese disk system (FDD3000) which I used more often than not in the CP/M 2.2 mode.  It had a 3rd mode with a cartridge that would emulate the Spectrum almost perfectly to run Spectrum games & programs.  With the 2 serial ports on back of the FDD3000 disk system, I was running it at 19.2k first into a 1200 baud modem, then into a 2400 baud modem, then onto a 14.4k baud modem using the late Irv Hoff's IMP (Improved Modem Program) with the Zebra h/w overlay (Irv misspelled it Zerbra).  Zebra marketed the Portuguese disk system here in the states.  I had also attached an Amdek Amdisk III to the FDD3000 to get 4 disk drives online at once.  

I even ran a piece of software called "CasBoard" that was a bbs server for it using the T/S 2050 modem @ 300 baud!  What a hoot!  It was the first Jewish-oriented BBS in NYC at the time.