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- From: Mark <mark@sliver.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: BBS A600?
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 02:38:13 GMT
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- Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@bitnova.com) wrote:
- : Mark <mark@sliver.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- :
- :> 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! :-)
-
- You mean to say people no longer use cheap/old gear to setup
- a BBS - you're upsetting me!!!
-
- And what you mean, "hope you don't intend to have much in the
- way of a file area!" - surely these are held on disk?
-
- My spec may be "tight" but I'm using the same hardware for my
- Internet access (and I'm using AmiTCP AND DiskProtection,
- which knocks memory for six). I also run all the major
- tools; email, gopher, IRC, news, telnet, www etc....and at
- 38K4 baud!
-
- Not everyone is using an expanded A1200 for a BBS surely?
-
-