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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Subject: Re: Starting a BBS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.222104.6931@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 22:21:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug14.222104.6931
- References: <1992Aug10.011345.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> <1992Aug10.183005.22522@amgen.com>
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- Myles Wakeham <mylesw@amgen.com> writes:
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- >>I wonder how much hard disk space do you need to start a BBS with? I
- >>plan in the future to join the fray of proud SysOps running a BBS.
-
- >I would budget a minimum of 100mb to handle messaging, utility programs,
- >doors, etc. Then there's your file system. If you intend to have a lot
- >of files, then up the size accordingly.
-
- 100 meg? The only BBSes I know of that have HDs that big either have
- *large* file areas, or are Fido hubs.
-
- We run a busy system on a 286 with an 80 meg HD (donated) that is less
- than 1/2 full. And includes a lot of non-BBS stuff (like the TP 5.5
- compiler/debugge and assembler so I can work on utilities on the
- same system)
-
- The BBS probably uses around 20 megs. This is QuickBBS 2.76 gamma-2
- and D'Bridge 1.30 as a mailer.
-
- The QuickBBS style message base saves a *lot* of room.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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