Any BBS's out there with lots of MS-DOS utilities and so forth? Sometimes it's easier to download things to this 486 of mine using my wifimodem than running compactflash cards all over the house.

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Any BBS's out there with lots of MS-DOS utilities and so forth? Sometimes

I raided Tiny's and... something else... I forget who now, and also looked
over some SIMTEL images that are out there. I found the easiest option was file sharing, you might be able to manage SMB1 but I never got that to work
at any stage with DOS. There are NFS clients out there though that'll work with a minimum of fuss, and you can still get NFS servers for linux variants.

Spec


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Any BBS's out there with lots of MS-DOS utilities and so forth?
Sometimes it's easier to download things to this 486 of mine using my wifimodem than running compactflash cards all over the house.

Try 20-4-BEERS, lots of ancient MS-DOS stuff I frequently evaluate, also directly from DOS via MTCP's supported telnet terminals.

-h1

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deepthaw wrote to All <=-

Any BBS's out there with lots of MS-DOS utilities and so forth?
Sometimes it's easier to download things to this 486 of mine using my wifimodem than running compactflash cards all over the house.

Most of the files on these two boards are MS-DOS programs.

capitolcityonline.net
moetiki.ddns.net:27



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I had a zillion in my Spitfire days.
Been pulling what I can from my old 3.5" floppies, but I know the biggest was on my old DC2120 Tape Drive.

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biggest was on my old DC2120 Tape Drive.

What tape version is that? I have a Travan 3 drive with intact rollers somwhere, if it helps.

ST

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Look for QuickBBS (QBBS). I used to run it back in the day and between it and FrontDoor as the frontend, it was a great setup.

Beery

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Any BBS's out there with lots of MS-DOS utilities and so forth?
Sometimes it's easier to download things to this 486 of mine using my wifimodem than running compactflash cards all over the house.

2oFB has a huge archive of everything retro software. The localZzZ File Conference has all the basic MS-DOS tools and utils, plus a bit m0re... and theres tons of other conferences for other retro platforms.

It's not a DOS BBS, but I also work on MS-DOS machines so I bet I have lots of what you might be hunting... :P



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What tape version is that? I have a Travan 3 drive with intact rollers somwhere, if it helps.

QIC-80

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What tape version is that? I have a Travan 3 drive with intact rollers somwhere, if it helps.

QIC-80

(sry for some reason I hit ENTER and it sent the message)

I ran that on an old 386SX-20, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and SPITFIRE BBS for MSDOS.

MAN those were the BBS days!!! I can still hear the modem talking away .. LOL

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Re: BBS's with MS-DOS software?
By: deepthaw to All on Tue Oct 17 2023 05:44 pm

Any BBS's out there with lots of MS-DOS utilities and so forth? Sometimes it's easier to download things to this 486 of mine using my wifimodem than running compactflash cards all over the house.

Not a lot of stuff, but I have some. I kept all my downloadable files from when I ran my BBS in the 90s.

digitaldistortionbbs.com (or digdist.synchro.net)

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SirRonmit wrote to StormTrooper <=-

What tape version is that? I have a Travan 3 drive with intact rollers somwhere, if it helps.

QIC-80

MAN those were the BBS days!!! I can still hear the modem talking away
.. LOL

This thread is bring back sounds of my weekly tape backup --
Fwooooot........FWEEEEEEEEEEEET..... FWEEEEEEEEEET....fwooooot...

Those QIC drives that ran over a floppy interface were slooooow. I
ended up scavenging an Adaptec SCSI card and DDS-1 drive from work that
was getting tossed out.

I'm constantly amazed, thinking back to those days and how much we were
able to do with such little storage, memory, and computing power.



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What tape version is that? I have a Travan 3 drive with intact rolle somwhere, if it helps.

QIC-80

The models T(Travan)1 2 and 3 specify what the software encoding on the tape is. They have varying compression and method. Off hand I can't remember what brand this drive I have is, only she's a T3.

ST

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This thread is bring back sounds of my weekly tape backup --
Fwooooot........FWEEEEEEEEEEEET..... FWEEEEEEEEEET....fwooooot...

Indeed!

Those QIC drives that ran over a floppy interface were slooooow. I
ended up scavenging an Adaptec SCSI card and DDS-1 drive from work that was getting tossed out.

I have one of each (floppy that fit inside a drive bay) and a SCSI that I never used, but should hook it up to a linux server and see if I can get it going to retrieve my old files. I also have an 8 bay CDx1 Speed drive rack mount as well ..

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Re: Re: BBS's with MS-DOS software?
By: SirRonmit to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Oct 18 2023 15:20:59

This thread is bring back sounds of my weekly tape backup --
Fwooooot........FWEEEEEEEEEEEET..... FWEEEEEEEEEET....fwooooot...

Ah, yes. Visceral memories of that sound. The incessant fidget before the big long FWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... where the data goes on.

I have one of each (floppy that fit inside a drive bay) and a SCSI that I never used, but should hook it up to a linux server and see if I can get it going to retrieve my old files. I also have an 8 bay CDx1 Speed drive rack mount as well ..

I dug out my tape drive the other day, which was originally intercepted from being thrown away from a school in the early 2000s. Linux still, of course, was happy to work with it but after pulling the first few filenames out of the tape it went back into fweet fwoot fweet mode and could do no more. Then it wouldn't read the next tape, or the next one. They were all stored together so I put it down to bit rot... until I went to pack the drive away and found its belt lying on the bench underneath. It's never what you think will get you that gets you :(

BobW

The models T(Travan)1 2 and 3 specify what the software encoding on the tape is. They have varying compression and method. Off hand I can't remember what brand this drive I have is, only she's a T3.

I don't have any labels other than the outer, so I'm not sure but T3 rings a bell for some reason. I need to dig out the drive and hook it up to my linux machine and see if I can even read the tape; it is that old.

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underneath. It's never what you think will get you that gets you :(

LOL! ALWAYS!!

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They were all stored together so I put it down to bit rot... until I went to pack the drive away and found its belt lying on the bench underneath. It's never what you think will get you that gets you :(

My drive didn't last that long. It lost the end of tape sensor... being an optical sensor and a small hole in the tape. I cleaned it up a couple of times, and rewound a few tapes, but in the end it just became unviable. No idea what I did with the tapes themselves now.

At different times, my tapes did different duties. Backups of course, and
after some time I found a door that would let you use a tape as a file area.. of course it had latency in retrieving the file for download, but being able
to have a slab of monolithic data was handy, and could free up drive space.

I only ever had SCSI in the Apple II world, and there were plenty of cheapish drives kicking around, like the ol' Archive Viper but I could never get them
to talk to any of the available software.

Spec


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Re: Re: BBS's with MS-DOS software?
By: Spectre to Bob Worm on Fri Oct 20 2023 06:49:00

Hi, Spec.

My drive didn't last that long. It lost the end of tape sensor... being an optical sensor and a small hole in the tape. I cleaned it up a couple of times, and rewound a few tapes, but in the end it just became unviable. No idea what I did with the tapes themselves now.

I imagine it must make a hell of a bang when it hits the end of a tape :\

At different times, my tapes did different duties. Backups of course, and after some time I found a door that would let you use a tape as a file area.. of course it had latency in retrieving the file for download, but being able to have a slab of monolithic data was handy, and could free up drive space.

That sounds useful but I have so many questions... Did it tell the user their download would start in X minutes? How many times did some random guy downloading "Roger's disk utility" wake you up in the middle of the night? Does that amount of tape reuse throw muck all over the end of tape sensor? ;)

I only ever had SCSI in the Apple II world, and there were plenty of cheapish drives kicking around, like the ol' Archive Viper but I could never get them to talk to any of the available software.

Ah, yes. This is one of the things I'd forgotten about retro computing until I returned to it. That and the complete lack of "common" connectors across systems. Or they have common connectors like a serial port but they want 7e2 and expect you to do something jazzy like trigger the ring indicator pin before they will talk to you... I hated the idea of USB when it came along but we really are spoiled these days!

BobW

I also ran QBBS and FrontDoor for a while in FidoNet. Also Binkleyterm,
Seadog and Intermail front ends along with Opus and RemoteAccess BBSes.

Fun stuff...

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I also ran QBBS and FrontDoor for a while in FidoNet. Also Binkleyterm, Seadog and Intermail front ends along with Opus and RemoteAccess BBSes.

Nearly mirrors mine, I didn't have 3 different mailers, just FrontDoor. But locally by the time I started seriously putting a bbs together, it was pretty much all RemoteAccess and SuperBBS here.

Over a period of time, I tried, Quick BBS, RA, Super, Celerity a few other weirdos like searchlight... in the end I didn't find any real advantages and just stuck with Super.

Spec


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I imagine it must make a hell of a bang when it hits the end of a tape :\

Ahh no actually. Unlike a compact cassette the tapes are only held on by friction so they just unspooled and wrapped around the drive spool.

That sounds useful but I have so many questions... Did it tell the user their download would start in X minutes? How many times did some random guy downloading "Roger's disk utility" wake you up in the middle of the night? Does that amount of tape reuse throw muck all over the end of tape sensor? ;)

It threw out a message saying it was recovering the file from the tape sans
any kind of time. For what it was it was reasonably quick, a bit slow
getting itself lined up for random access but the transfer was quick enough
to not be a big issue. And no, it didn't seem to worry the drive at all. Did
it add to the drives early exit for the pearly gates one backup cycle... maybe.. but not noticably.

I was only ever woken up by the BBS for about the first 3 days. I left the monitor on, ATM1 all the bells and whistles. After three days, being an apprentice that needed to get to work for 7am I turned it all off and got
some more sleep. :)

Spec


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Re: Re: BBS's with MS-DOS software?
By: Spectre to Bob Worm on Fri Oct 20 2023 18:24:00

I imagine it must make a hell of a bang when it hits the end of a tape :\

Ahh no actually. Unlike a compact cassette the tapes are only held on by friction so they just unspooled and wrapped around the drive spool.

I feel sad for the tapes :( Can they be re-spooled after that or are they "non user-serviceable"?

BobW

I feel sad for the tapes :( Can they be re-spooled after that or are they "non user-serviceable"?

The ones I had, you could unscrew the metal base plate, respool the tape getting a bit of tension on it and then reassemble. It was a little time consuming though, and after it transition from the odd occurence to semi-regular I retired the drive.

Spec


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|11S|09> |10weirdos like searchlight... in the end I didn't find any real advantages|07
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Those were fun times when each of the TBBS clones were putting out new versions with features and it was easy enough to convert between them to give them a shot.

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On 20 Oct 23 18:13:00 Spectre wrote...

I also ran QBBS and FrontDoor for a while in FidoNet. Also Binkleyterm, Seadog and Intermail front ends along with Opus and RemoteAccess BBSes.

Nearly mirrors mine, I didn't have 3 different mailers, just
FrontDoor. But locally by the time I started seriously putting a bbs together, it was pretty much all RemoteAccess and SuperBBS here.

Over a period of time, I tried, Quick BBS, RA, Super, Celerity a few
other weirdos like searchlight... in the end I didn't find any real advantages and just stuck with Super.

Spec

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To which Bf2K+ replies...

That was a 10 year period for me but it seems like every time a new toy
came out, I ahd to change what I was doing to the new thing. And it was
fun stuff!

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Spectre wrote to Bf2K+ <=-

Nearly mirrors mine, I didn't have 3 different mailers, just FrontDoor.
But locally by the time I started seriously putting a bbs together, it was pretty much all RemoteAccess and SuperBBS here.

I started with FrontDoor and ended up moving to BinkleyTerm. I think it
was the hassle of having to compile a BT-compatible binary nodelist for
Maximus, my BBS software, and a FD nodelist -- the things we did for a
couple of dozen KB back then!

I also had plans on moving the BBS to OS/2, and there were BinkleyTerm,
Maximus and Squish packages native to OS/2, which made the switch easy.

I started with Telegard, moved to Maximus, then went private for a time,
and re-emerged on Synchronet 3.x.



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Quoting Deepthaw to All <=-

Sometimes it's easier to download things to this 486 of mine using my wifimodem than running compactflash cards all over the house.

I like Titanic BBS for files. They have a bunch of CDROMS online. Maybe
you can find what you're looking for there.

Address: ttb.rgbbs.info
Telnet port: 23

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Quoting Hollowone to Elf <=-

Subject: Re: BBS's with MS-DOS softwar

Visit our 1990's Web Site:
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I love the website!

Thanks! It was fun to make. Reminded me of the good old days when the
Internet was just getting going and was exciting. Unfortunately, I find
the Internet of today kind of boring. Maybe because it feels kind of
mature and settled in. Back then things were just getting started.

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Thanks! It was fun to make. Reminded me of the good old days when the Internet was just getting going and was exciting. Unfortunately, I find the Internet of today kind of boring. Maybe because it feels kind of mature and settled in. Back then things were just getting started.

I'm not sure if I can call today's Internet mature. Technologies and capabilities are for sure mind blowing comparint to what we had in the 90s.

But content wise? Back then it was all about content to be distributed as it is. before Google it was a bit of a challenge to find everything but still diversity of content was exceptional beyond measure.

Now it's all about milking on your attention while there is actually little valuable content in most popular web traffic jams you can encounter.

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