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- From: bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott)
- Subject: Re: Starting a BBS
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- Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug10.183005.22522@amgen.com> <1992Aug14.222104.6931@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Aug18.180205.6807@SSD.intel.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:12:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.180205.6807@SSD.intel.com> jerryg@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Gaiser) writes:
- >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
- > Usenet: jerryg@ssd.intel.com
- > Fidonet: 1:105/380
- > PBBS: n7pwf@n7pwf.or.usa.na
-
- How about a Mac BBS WITH Downloads that has only 46 megs allocated!
- (I have the other 140 megs allocated to development and Apps)
-
- Scott R. Bell
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