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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@bitnova.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: BBS A600?
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:11:01 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- Mark <mark@sliver.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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- >:> I'm thinking of starting a 24hr BBS using an A600 with 2Mb
- >:> RAM, a 120Mb hard drive and a 14K4 SupraFaxModem. I'm new
- >:> to this, so only one dedicated telephone line.
-
- >: Wuff! Rather tight specs, hope you don't intend to have
- >: much in the way of a file area! :-)
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- >You mean to say people no longer use cheap/old gear to setup
- >a BBS - you're upsetting me!!!
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- No, but a 120 MB drive won't give you much freedom to have a lot of files
- online at once. You'll have to be fairly draconian in culling out files,
- and very selective as to what you put in there in the first place. 120MB
- fills up in NO time, and you have to share that with the rest of the BBS
- and OS as well.
-
- >Not everyone is using an expanded A1200 for a BBS surely?
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- Oh, I don't think a low-tech approach to the BBS is a bad idea at all,
- but generally I would suggest an old 2000 for that job, as it gives you
- more freedom to expand in the future with accelerators, memory, hard
- drives, CDRoms, and extra serial ports. The 600 will do the job but you
- just won't be able to go very far beyond your initial setup.
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