It was a good system. Charter m ember BBS Direct provides local access 's for easy access. Best quality latest files games info gold mine. Many mail networks including Internet. Trial access provided. Major credit cards. Sysop: Mark Rapp. Using PCBoard Hayes at bps. No fee. PCBoard NJ's preferred BBS for the professional 11 yrs running. HiSpeed lines for easy access. Gold mine of the best-quality, latest files, games, info. Also covered computer hardware and software and adult discussions more toward politics and religion than sex.
I eventually shut down the BBS when it started to take too much time to run it according to my own standards. I insisted on checking each uploaded file and message. The main reason for running the BBS was to meet people, make friends and learn. I did all of those.
Auntie was unique in offering excellent Sysop control and logging, the best fully-threaded message base around, and doorway access. System upgrades over time: Quadram quadboard, Hercules graphics card, Peachtree 10MB hard disk, baud hayes smartmodem. The BBS ran only at night yes, I used the computer during the day for users of the Epson QX computer and also supported the Epson series of printers. The main problem I had with the RCPM software was the fact that people had direct access to your computer and its drives and user areas.
When I decided to install a hard disk, I switched to the brand new ROS BBS software, since it handled the bulletin board operations without allowing users direct access to your hard drive areas. ROS soon was able to handle two nodes running under a multitasking software DoubleDOS, Desqview so I installed another phone line, bought a newer computer and another modem and let the BBS to run 24 hours a day.
I Switched to MBBS around February , mainly because of the ability to run multi-node operation on a single computer. I had 10 nodes up and running when I finally shut the system down on April I saw the writing on the wall; there was really no need for local BBS systems when you have the World Wide Web available. XD Good times. Run out of Springfield, NJ, it was never an extremely popular system.
