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     Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout Values   
     By: Dan Clough to Nick Andre on Mon Apr 10 2023 12:12 pm   
      
    > -=> Nick Andre wrote to Dan Clough <=-   
    >   
    >  NA> On 10 Apr 23  07:31:00, Dan Clough said the following to Nick   
    >  NA> Andre:   
    >   
    >  DC>  NA> This is true.. If you bought either MBBS or TBBS it was an   
    >  DC>  NA> investment that you wanted recouped. I never once saw a totally   
    >  DC>  NA> "free" one of those systems until much later, when the novelty   
    >  DC>  NA> wore off.   
    >   
    >  DC> Do you recall how much it was back then?  I ran a purchased/registered   
    >  DC> copy of PCBoard back in the 90's, and I think it was either $125 or   
    >  DC> $150, which was a significant cost for me back then.  Also registered   
    >   
    >  NA> I can't remember exactly. I keep thinking MajorBBS was at least a   
    >  NA> few hundred and they upsold you on the "Galaticboard" serial card   
    >  NA> which was another couple hundred bucks.   
    >   
    >  NA> Same with TBBS... You bought the license but needed the serial   
    >  NA> board for anything beyond 2 nodes. Then Fidonet was an add-on.   
    >  NA> Remote access was an add-on... I mean, any BBS that came with a   
    >  NA> freaking VHS installation video you just knew was going to be a   
    >  NA> bit out of your league.   
    >   
    >  NA> https://archive.org/details/1993-bbs-tbbstape   
    >   
    > Wow.  How cool is that.  I watched the whole video...  Hahaha, the   
    > professionalism of the presentation is awesome.  What a different time!   
      
   I actually started to create a similar video for Synchronet sysops around 1994   
   (I thought it was an original idea) and had the video camera for (screen   
   capture/recording wasn't really a thing yet), high-end duplication quality   
   SVHS VCR, script, etc, but never really got around to finishing it before the   
   sales started to obviously slow down in 1995. Wish I had finished it. :-(   
   --    
                                               digital man (rob)   
      
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