A POINTLESS CONNECTION


    After running a BBS for the last 8 years, we just "ran out of steam".

    Kid's wanting more games, older folks wanting more Message areas and
    Files, all user's wanting more & more services but, nobody willing to
    help pay for it.

    That, along with increased demands on my time at work, additional
    travel, etc., I just didn't have the time to properly maintain the
    BBS the way "I" wanted it so, effective October 21, 1995, our BBS,
    THE DARKROOM BBS, went offline for the last time.

    Since I have been a TERMINAT beta tester for some time, it was only
    natural that I continue to maintain a presence in the networks I have
    enjoyed for so many years, enter TERMINAT POINT SYSTEM and HOST!

    Until such time as Terminate has it's own 2-way mailer, I use my
    Intermail Mailer to poll for my various mail packets and Interecho
    to toss them into the JAM message base, so the Points and Downlinks
    can still receive theri mail and files. To them, there is NO
    DIFFERENCE in the way the system operates.

    Altho the HOST is not as flexible or powerful as a "full blown BBS",
    it is still, the most feature packed HOST system currently available.

    TERMINAT provides me, as well as all other user's, with the most
    powerful, feature packed communications applications available today.

    Our TerHOST System consists of....

    HARDWARE:

    486DLC40 (a hopped up 386DX40 with the Cyrix upgrade chip)
    8 MB 60ns RAM (soon to be upgraded to 16 MB)
    Custom Built Multi I/O card w/4 16550Afn Serial Ports, 1 Parallel Port.
    and supports 4 Hard Drives and 2 Floppy Drives to 2.8 MB.
    (2) Western Digital 850MB IDE Hard Drives
    (2) US Robotics 33.6 Sportster Data/Fax Modems
    MediaVision Sound Card with SCSI CDROM Interface
    (2) NEC SCSI CD-Roms
    Colorado 350 MB Tape Backup Unit
    Iomega Zip Drive (Parallel Port Model)
    Quantum 240MB Hard Card

    SOFTWARE:

    DOS 6.22
    QEMM v7.04
    DESQView v2.63
    TERMINATE v4.10a09, HOST v4.10a10, TERMAIL v4.10a11
    INTERMAIL v2.29k MultiLine
    INTERECHO v1.19
    GOLDED v3.0a04 (Firebird)
    ALLFIX v4.41 Build 4
    The READER v4.00
    GEDIT v2.10
    Multi-MENU v1.10a
    BBSLIST v3.02a


    CONFIG.SYS:

   DEVICE=C:\DOS\ATDOSHC.SYS
   DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOSDATA.SYS
   DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ST:M DMA=64 R:1 I=A000-B7FF
   DEVICE=C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.SYS @C:\QEMM\DOS-UP.DAT
   BUFFERS=10
   FILES=40
   LASTDRIVE=L
   FCBS=16,0
   DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:3 /SIZE=6176 C:\DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 2560 /E
   INSTALL=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.COM /R:1 C:\DOS\DGANSI.COM  P- K- /B0
   STACKS=0,0
   SHELL=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.COM /R:2 C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /p /E:512
   DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 /SIZE=35504 C:\MEDVSN\TSLCDR.SYS /D:MVCD001 /R


    AUTOEXEC.BAT:

   @ECHO OFF
   C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:1 C:\MEDVSN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MVCD001 /M:10 /V
   C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:1 C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE
   C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X
   PROMPT $p$g
   PATH C:\DOS;C:\EP;C:\QEMM;C:\UTILS;C:\;C:\ZIP;C:\TAPE;
   SET TEMP=E:\TEMP
   C:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:3 C:\NOCRASH 90
   DV


   MEMORY STATUS:  (From DESQView Window)

                         Total     Total       Largest
                         Memory    Available   Available

   Common Memory         30720      24140       24012

   Conventional Memory    664K       655K        655K

   Expanded Memory       6688K      1824K        656K

-EOF- 01/10/96