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- From: jerryg@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Gaiser)
- Subject: Re: Starting a BBS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.180205.6807@SSD.intel.com>
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- Organization: Supercomputer Systems Division, Intel Corp.
- References: <1992Aug10.011345.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> <1992Aug10.183005.22522@amgen.com> <1992Aug14.222104.6931@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:02:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.222104.6931@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
- >Myles Wakeham <mylesw@amgen.com> writes:
- >
- >>>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)
- >
- And I'm running a 'starting to get busy' system on a 386 with a 40 meg HD.
- I'm carrying about 25 echoes (though a few are sysop only and tend to
- stay low volume). Things are starting to get a little tight though. I
- only have about 7 meg on one partition and 2.5 meg on the second.
- --
- Jerry Gaiser
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