JM> It's a Amiga 2000 with a GVP G-Force accelerator with a 40MHz 68030 and   
    JM> a _old_ Quantum SCSI-II drive (120MB), a Golden Gate II-card and a ISA   
    JM> NE-2000 NIC. AmigaOS 3.1 and 12MB RAM.  I run a Swedish BBS system   
    JM> called NiKom (www.nikom.org) which is still in development. It's a   
    JM> command based BBS system (no menus) which makes it really fast to use   
    JM> and IMHO has more focus on discussions rather than ANSI graphics and   
    JM> file leeching.  :)   
      
   Nice... I always thought that the heart and sould of the BBS's are the message   
   areas... nothing else really had the heart and soul.   
      
    JM> It's all connected to the Interwebz via a 600Mbit/s fiber connection in   
    JM> my home with my own IP addresses.   
      
    JM> I also use Amibinkd for transferring the fido messages and that   
    JM> software has caused more headaches than any of my four kids. I've   
    JM> managed to get the last version (9.02 if memory serves) but it still   
    JM> brings down the entire Amiga from time to time and I am yet to find a   
    JM> working replacement for it. There is a "official" Amiga port of Binkd   
    JM> but it lacks some features needed so I can't use it.   
      
   I am impressed... and you have never had any capacitor failures?  My amiga is   
   not used so much for anything other than nostalgic games.  I've not hooked up   
   anything more to it than that.   
      
   I remember calling a few of the Amiga BBS's here in Louisville when they were   
   popular.  We had a computer store that dealt with them a long time ago, it was   
   ran by Scott Horan (he wrote a lot of programs back in the day for   
   communications with the Amiga and was one of my old High school teachers) it   
   was called "Mr. Horan's Computer Lab".   
      
   http://www.floydsfork.org/cr/cr_horan.htm   
      
   The store has long since closed and I know he retired many years ago.  I am   
   shocked that this page is still up as that's how I remembered him in the   
   1980's.  He dealt with the Amiga mostly as it was his favorite computer.   
      
   My first coding was done on a c64 which I quickly sold and upgraded to an   
   Amiga.  I ran my BBS on an old 8-bit atari 800 and would never ever consider   
   putting my precious Amgia up as the BBS machine.  Then as luck would have it, I   
   won a PC... and for it's time it was a NICE machine it was a 286 in a time when   
   the BBS World here was dedicated by the XP machines.  I put it up as my BBS   
   machine and the Livewire operated under it for a while.  Even though it was a   
   PC BBS it had a very active Atari and Amiga community... the PC was the   
   public's ... the Amiga was mine.  As I progressed toward school the poor little   
   amiga was relegated to a table in the Basement of my parents house where it's   
   been kept safely through all these years with a sheet covering it.  I plugged   
   it in and it still boots... speaks volumes for the quality.  I still have the   
   old atari 800... it won't boot any longer :-( It had a 10MB which for a little   
   8 bit system was massive for it's day.   
      
   I had more fun on my AMIGA than any other computer I had... slowly the   
   computers became more and more tools of a career and their fun factor   
   diminished... but then again, that's growing up.   
      
   I wish you the best in developing your nikom.org bbs.  Hope you consider   
   putting an English section to it and sharing it with the world.   
      
   /\llen   
      
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