BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Looking for screenshots/a
De:       poindexter FORTRAN
Data:     Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:39:00 -0800
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-=> Nightfox wrote to DaiTengu <=-

 Ni> From what I remember, MajorBBS had some products & software features to
 Ni> enable easily having a bunch of phone lines for a dialup BBS.  I had
 Ni> used some MajorBBS boards in my area in the early 90s that had a bunch
 Ni> of phone lines, with active multi-node chat rooms.  I remember seeing
 Ni> some hardware they offered that allowed a lot more serial ports than
 Ni> were usually offered on a PC..  From what I remember, a typical
 Ni> IBM-compatible PC had bulit-in support for up to 4 serial ports (and a
 Ni> couple of them shared IRQs, from what I remember, so if you wanted to
 Ni> use all 4 simulteneously, you had to re-configure their IRQs).  But I
 Ni> recall seeing that the company that made MajorBBS offered some hardware
 Ni> that allowed a lot more serial ports, and their MajorBBS software
 Ni> naturally supported that.  I'm not sure how the hardware accomplished
 Ni> that, since typically there were limited IRQs available.

 Digiboards! They rocked. I had a 16 port digiboard running a dial-up
 WAN back in those days - I was working for a large retailer with 100
 stores. The POS system in the stores was essentially a DOS box, and
 when they shut down at night, it ran a batch file we wrote to zip up
 sales, credit card data and inventory data, then send it to the hub.
 The hub system was an OS/2 box running a package called Excellenet,
 using a 16 port digiboard.

 There was a special driver, might have used int14h, a protocol used to
 share modems over the LAN. The digiboard had 386 processors on it,
 it did most of the processing on-board. We had 16 modems on it, and
 when the east coast stores would close, they'd all be busy.

 The whole system reminded me of FTN, I thought you could reproduce most
 of it with FrontDoor and some batch files.


 
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