OK- As long as we are BBSing, I actually wrote the TIBBSR BBS in the early 1980s and ran the "Flagship TIBBS" from my home near Atlanta.
I believe that in its heyday, there were over 100 systems running around the US. Even though Texas Instruments said that a TI-99/4 could not operate that way, I obtained all the manuals for the communication and video chips they used and wrote routines to do all the serial I/O and storage. The system could remotely identify other TIs and close the door on those "Rataris, Commode-Door Ick 20's and Rotten Apples" if the Sysop chose to. Your terminal also spoke to you and welcomed you to the system if you had the speech synthesizer. All this in 24K of BASIC programming and 8K of 9900 Assembly language. Frank, also of Brightlan, was behind the FJ&J real time clock/calendar card that was marketed for the TI. Some stuff about TIBBS is here: http://ralphfowler.com/ti994a.html Those were good times. Ralph From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Blair Davis Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 2:06 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Handheld GPS recommendations, anyone? I ran my BBS on an Atari 800 Robert West wrote: Sheeeeeesh! I ran Fidonet for a time then moved up to PCBoard with 4 nodes. Man, that was livin'. I think I still have my install disks someplace and my huge box of 200 2.5" floppy backup set. Ran it on an IBM XT 286. Speed, brother! All about the speed! -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Blake Bowers Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:13 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Handheld GPS recommendations, anyone? Funny, I remember running a BBS on a Timex Sinclair computer. And then along came FIDONET. I sure miss that. Don't take your organs to heaven, heaven knows we need them down here! Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Davis" <mailto:the...@wmwisp.net> <the...@wmwisp.net> To: "WISPA General List" <mailto:wireless@wispa.org> <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:34 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Handheld GPS recommendations, anyone? 5Mb, and 5 min to spin up... Remember watching the lights dim when you turned it on? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
