BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Looking for screensho
De:       Nightfox
Data:     Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:46:00 -0800
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  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
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