As you well know, BBSing is a part of our computer history. Of course, that is NOT the only reason why I have resurrected my Hermes II BBS once again. This has nothing to do with whether or not it makes sense.
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While you may hold to the view that running a text- and PC-ANSI-based BBS on a Classic Mac makes no sense, there are in fact those few of us who still find it charming and quaint, because it takes us back to our roots when we were new computer users.
Surprisingly, my Hermes II BBS is getting considerably more traffic, so that seems to indicate where the interest lies.Īt any rate, I think you are totally missing the point of my comments. I don't have bots or fake users logged on to it like some of the others do. After all, as I have already said, I was - and still am - a Hotline admin, even if my resurrected Hotline server is totally dead in the water. I think "True BBS" is valuable, but I'm personally not interested, nor do I really think it's very Mac-like.Ĭory5412, I am not dissing Hotline or any of the other client/server suites which were popular at that time.
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Hotline et al are pretty representative of the 1990s, but if you're really into the idea of something the owner of a Mac Plus might have been doing, then accessing direct-dial systems like SDF or using a text BBS may be your best choice, although the other thing is the early days of Mac, you probably weren't online as often as you might have been as the 1990s wore on and line rates went down and second lines became more common. I guess it depends on what you're trying to simulate. I'd say today if you wanted to run a "BBS" on a Mac with Mac-like functionality, hotline/kdx/carracho or FirstClass (which was the aforementioned commercial solution whose name I couldn't remember.)
Text BBSs are neat and all, but hotline made the functionality accessible to Mac users, not all of whom (it's worth noting) had ever been Apple II/III/IIgs users, or even users of other 8-bit systems, or PCs.
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I was frequently both transferring files and chatting with people on some of the 68kMLA-Adjacent hotline servers back in like 2000-2001/2002 and using local software for other tasks, checking my real e-mail, etc. It makes almost no sense at all to run an exclusively text-based BBS on a Classic Macintosh, because that's not how anything else on the platform (except, of course, remote access to other systems) worked.īy the time of the 1990s, it made sense to make use of the fact that with a Mac's graphical user interface and system software you could do more than one thing at a time, both on the server side and on the client side. You can likewise telnet there using telnet or telnet 202.128.4.177Įnjoy a blast into the past and become a regular!Īlthough not identical to a direct-dial BBS, I'd say that Hotline/KDX/Carracho et al (there were a few commercial offerings focused more on being commercial groupware as well) are interesting specifically because they weren't text. Check out its official home page at the URL in my signature. In contrast, anyone with a telnet client/terminal app installed on their system can access any BBS around the world.īTW, I have been running my Macintosh-based BBS on and off since early 1994. It uses its own proprietary protocol, which is why you need a Hotline client of some type to connect to it. In our modern day, BBSes also now have the ability to be accessed via the telnet protocol. Furthermore, you cannot connect to a Hotline server using a typical dial-up modem connection, which sets true BBSes apart. Yes, Hotline has similar functionality as a BBS, but it is not a true PC-ANSI graphics based system. Click to expand.As a former - eight consecutive years running my Hotline server - and current - back up and running again - Hotline admin, I can tell you first hand that the Hotline server/client software suite is not a BBS in the truest sense of the word.
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