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   Shawn Highfield to Allen Prunty   
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   12 May 16 14:51:08   
   
   Allen Prunty wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:   
      
   AP> TBBS was an amazing system... Every message conference on my system   
   AP> had it's own menu.  It was quite easy to use if the sysop took time   
      
     You could do that with RA and PCB which I'm sure you know. :)   
      
   AP> Unfortunately, I had over 500 360kb floppies they were all low   
   AP> density then the high density ones were not developed yet.  I tried   
   AP> to restore from backup but one critical disk would not load so it   
      
     That's a shame.  That's what happended with my Telegard setup as well.   
   Well... bad backup tape.   
      
   AP> wrote Toped and a lot of RA utilites.  They talked me into changing   
   AP> to RA which I ran for many years before I went to wildcat version 3   
   AP> then to PCBoard... which had issues for me.  I went back to Wildcat   
   AP> 4 to get UUCP back... users were revolting since they lost access to   
      
     I ran RAUUCP at that time.  It worked. ;)   
      
   AP> TBBS was, by far, the best that I ever ran hands down period!  But   
   AP> it was customized to the n'th degree and when it crashed I did not   
   AP> have a means to restore it to it's full glory without months of   
   AP> downtime.   
      
     Still a shame man, I'd have loved to see a configured one. :)   
      
   Shawn   
   ... I knew she was shareware the first time I laid eyes on her.   
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