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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
Adding A BBS Section...
There have been discussions in the forums, in the past, about adding a BBS section to the CSDb. Perff told me that he would consider adding a BBS section when he finds the time. He does not know much about the great boards that supported the 64. For
such a section to be added, we all must describe more about it.
Detailed information is needed about BBSs, for this to happen. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
the most important point would be to define *precisely* what kind of data should be kept in such an entry... |
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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
A good start is...
BBS name
Group BBS was Headquarter or Tailquarter for
Sysop name
Telephone number
....Much more can be added too. Ideas please...
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
and more precisely please. keep in mind how the info should be presented in the database... for example
sysop: one or more links to scener entries
phone#: one or more text fields
etc |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1098 |
Quote: the most important point would be to define *precisely* what kind of data should be kept in such an entry...
dude, that information is already in one of the other threads from one or two years ago. I remember writing pretty complete specs. |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1932 |
Oh my, guess it would be a nice subject to have on the db, but wonder what really matters regardings boards.
Apart from the usual name, sysop, etc, one could come up with:
- Special sections/specialisations
- system (C-Base or other and mod version) and hardware (it WAS somewhat important back then)
- the number could be linked or in plaintext added have the "area" with it - somehow americans were picky from north to south about their location, so ""NYC", "Houston,TX" or "L.A." might be of interest - also and especially on european boards one would pass the country along
- Amount of 1-800 and 0130- numbers people illegally assigned to the BBS line
- Line quality when using AT&T, MCI or Sprint :)
- Probability of calling card death on calling the bbs :)
One always has to remember that it'll be hard to get the full board history, since boards sometimes/often changed groups and the most interesting part would of course be to have these times and groups properly listed - nobody remembers that exactly though I fear.
So, it would be great to have, but I see very few callers from back then around - so might be hard to get more than a dozen or so proper entries (with a little more complete data rather than just name and number :) ).
CALL NOW: Forplay RSI WHQ - 1-314-481-4821 - Sysop: Nightwriter
- much former ATC
- then someday Hysteric before it became RSI -no idea about the rest
- running color64 in the early days - then ucbbs for quite some time - finally ended up with villain modded c-base
- hardware: cmd ramlink, cmd 40GB HDD, us robotix modem (14.4k in the end)
- a commonly used 4mhz turbo card (forgot exact name) was avail as well, but often removed due to unstableness :)))
l8r
Count Zero/CyberpunX/SCS*TRC |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
Quote:
dude, that information is already in one of the other threads from one or two years ago. I remember writing pretty complete specs.
then point us to it :) |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1098 |
Quote: Quote:
dude, that information is already in one of the other threads from one or two years ago. I remember writing pretty complete specs.
then point us to it :)
doh, lazy bastard
How about having a bbs section here
and
BBS entries
its not like it never came up before ;) would be great if it was finally added. |
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SECRET MAN
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 336 |
Quote: Oh my, guess it would be a nice subject to have on the db, but wonder what really matters regardings boards.
Apart from the usual name, sysop, etc, one could come up with:
- Special sections/specialisations
- system (C-Base or other and mod version) and hardware (it WAS somewhat important back then)
- the number could be linked or in plaintext added have the "area" with it - somehow americans were picky from north to south about their location, so ""NYC", "Houston,TX" or "L.A." might be of interest - also and especially on european boards one would pass the country along
- Amount of 1-800 and 0130- numbers people illegally assigned to the BBS line
- Line quality when using AT&T, MCI or Sprint :)
- Probability of calling card death on calling the bbs :)
One always has to remember that it'll be hard to get the full board history, since boards sometimes/often changed groups and the most interesting part would of course be to have these times and groups properly listed - nobody remembers that exactly though I fear.
So, it would be great to have, but I see very few callers from back then around - so might be hard to get more than a dozen or so proper entries (with a little more complete data rather than just name and number :) ).
CALL NOW: Forplay RSI WHQ - 1-314-481-4821 - Sysop: Nightwriter
- much former ATC
- then someday Hysteric before it became RSI -no idea about the rest
- running color64 in the early days - then ucbbs for quite some time - finally ended up with villain modded c-base
- hardware: cmd ramlink, cmd 40GB HDD, us robotix modem (14.4k in the end)
- a commonly used 4mhz turbo card (forgot exact name) was avail as well, but often removed due to unstableness :)))
l8r
Count Zero/CyberpunX/SCS*TRC
Yep,that were the real old times.I connected with 14.400 bauds.That was really fast.Too fast for the c-base graphics.
George was cool
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Conjuror
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 168 |
How about it as a front end to the content on this site?
Or (this is a lot of work), recreate famous bbs's. The content could still be CSDB or not.
Allow users to recreate their old bbs. (hmm more work)
Steve
Conjuror/TF |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Yeh I've got loads of old buffers I can add to certain BBS profiles.
Hurry up and add a BBS section.
Can't believe it's _still_ not included here.
Same also for ******FIRST RELEASE****** labels. WTF is up with that? Has admins just got demos in their &&@*? ;)
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