Speaking about BBS and CIS: At that dark medieval times around 1990, CompuServe was the "Master of all Bulletin Boards". In Germany, you needed to dialup into something called DATEX-P, which had just a handful of access nodes spread over Europe. In Germany we dialed into a node in Bern, Switzerland.It was the time of ISDN with 64 or 128kBit! Even though CompuServe had it's own software (which was targeted into maximizing online time, because access was billed by minutes, around 10$ per hour), a lot of offline tools were available to just go online, access the selected forums, download all new messages, send the offline written answers and disconnect. That way those tools saved a lot of money. Famous tools were NavCis, TapCis and OzCis. For the latter I provided the german translation and distribution.
wOOdy -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: GeeksCave via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Gesendet: Sonntag, 31. Dezember 2023 11:13 An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: GeeksCave <m...@geekscave.com> Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ? Hi, > I don't think any 1980s DOS computing experience is complete without > thinking about Bulletin Board Services and the "big" online services. Yes, I agree with you. I think BBSes were an important aspect of the DOS computing experience in the 1980s and early 1990s. Incidentally, I just found an old article from BYTE's January 1990 which discusses the "State Of The BBS Nation" (Online can it be read at https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199001_Byte_Magazine_Vol_15-01_Byte_Awards.pdf). In the late 1980s I was the "sysop" ("System Operator") of two Swiss BBSes based on DOS software and I really loved managing them. Cleto -- GeeksCave.com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
