BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Re: Looking for screensho De: Nightfox Data: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:46:00 -0800 ----------------------------------------------------------- hbRenb: hcRe: Looking for screenshots/a bBynb: hcpoindexter FORTRAN bto cNightfox bon cThu Feb 26 2026 07:39 amn PF> Digiboards! They rocked. I had a 16 port digiboard running a dial-up WAN PF> back in those days - I was working for a large retailer with 100 stores. PF> The POS system in the stores was essentially a DOS box, and when they shut PF> down at night, it ran a batch file we wrote to zip up sales, credit card PF> data and inventory data, then send it to the hub. The hub system was an PF> OS/2 box running a package called Excellenet, using a 16 port digiboard. PF> There was a special driver, might have used int14h, a protocol used to PF> share modems over the LAN. The digiboard had 386 processors on it, it did PF> most of the processing on-board. We had 16 modems on it, and when the east PF> coast stores would close, they'd all be busy. It sounds like those Digiboards were pretty serious units. I think it would have been fun to run a multi-line BBS using one of those, but I didn't have the money at the time. Nightfox n --- gSynchronetn Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]