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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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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 |
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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 |
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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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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
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doh, lazy bastard
you knew me, no? =D
hehe well anyway... since most important database related things have been solved by now, i'll take care of it. (so dont bother perff with it, but me =P) however dont forget, perff knows virtually nothing about the whole bbs thing, and i only bordered it when bbs's were already kindof dead - so we need your input. i will check the info from those older threads in the next week or so, please everyone else who feels like it do the same, and post whatever you think is missing. i'll try to come up with a useful proposal for a database entry then, which is hopefully detailed enough so perff can just implement it without further thinking about it =)
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Conjuror
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 168 |
Was wondering, what is the tech behind this site. Java, Php, Asp? Database?
Steve
Conjuror/TF |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
postgresql and php, afaik. |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
I'm keen to help for such a section and am in contact with dudes from the very early boards (mid-80s) (Mitch, JJ, By-Tor, Player=1= etc). So we can get some nice info.
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