Comments on: The Age of Reason: An Apple II BBS

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:55:18 +0000

Greg is the person to the right, wearing glasses.

He also sold the rights to GBBS away quite some time ago, so it is entirely possible that Kevin owns the rights now. Greg got out of the business of BBS writing and moved onto various other projects, back in the middle of the 1980s.

By: Ben Frazier

Ben Frazier — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:40:28 +0000

FYI… Kevin Smallwood (kevin.smallwood@gmail.com) made a post on the 80sBBS mailing list stating that he is the owner of GBBS, GBBS Pro and LLUCE.

By: Ben Frazier

Ben Frazier — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:24:16 +0000

In the pics linked above, which one is Greg S?

By: Ray Slakinski

Ray Slakinski — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:22:41 +0000

I love that I get a busy signal from telnet when the bbs is busy

Trying 199.254.199.64…
Connected to aor.retroarchive.org.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
BUSY
Connection closed by foreign host.

By: Ray Slakinski

Ray Slakinski — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:21:52 +0000

I love that I get a busy signal from telnet when the bbs is busy

Trying 199.254.199.64…
Connected to aor.retroarchive.org.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
BUSY
Connection closed by foreign host.

By: geneb

geneb — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:57:20 +0000

Thanks nimbus.

Up until a few weeks ago, I had the oldest micro running a BBS. I was running Citadel v2.10 on a Heathkit H-89 that was built in December of 1982. I took it down because the lack of traffic wasn’t worth the wear & tear on the hardware. I had it connected to a POTS line with a Hayes 300 baud modem. I may put it back online using tcpser like I’m doing for the Apple IIe, but I haven’t decided yet.

.gene.

By: nimbus

nimbus — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:10:43 +0000

Neat. What’s the oldest home computer currently running a BBS?