BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Multiline BBSes
De:       poindexter FORTRAN
Data:     Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:52:00 -0800
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-=> Mortar wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Mo> MagorBBS used special plug-in cards that handled all the back-end
 Mo> stuff.  You'd have a card that plugged into your PC which had a cable
 Mo> coming out the back, which in turn had a number of other connectors
 Mo> that would plug into your modems.  The more expansion slots you had in
 Mo> your PC, the more phone lines you could set up.

&TOTSE, the Temple of the Screaming Electron, took a different approach.
The sysop ran Remote Access software, and kept adding 386SX boxes. He
had a couple of baker's racks with, at one point, 13 nodes running, all
beige desktop boxes, all wired up to old thinnet ethernet.

He rented an office space for his business with utilities included.   :)


 
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