On Feburary 16, 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched what is believed to be the very first Bullentin Board System, CBBS/CHICAGO.
TERMINAL NEED NULLS? TYPE CTL-N WHILE THIS TYPES:
*** WELCOME TO CBBS/CHICAGO ***
*** WARD AND RANDY'S COMPUTERIZED BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM ***
-----> CONTROL CHARACTERS ACCEPTED BY THIS SYSTEM:
DEL/RUBOUT ERASES LAST CHAR. TYPE (AND ECHOES IT)
CTL-C CANCEL CURRENT PRINTNG
CTL-K 'KILLS' CURRENT FUNCTION, RETURNS TO MENU
CTL-N SEND 5 NULLS AFTER CR/LF
CTL-R RETYPES CURRENT INPUT LINE (AFTER DEL)
CTL-S STOP/START OUTPUT (FOR VIDEO TERMINAL)
CTL-U ERASE CURRENT INPUT LINE
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PROBLEMS WITH THE SYSTEM??
HARDWARE: RANDY (SUESS), (312) 935-3356
SOFTWARE: WARD (CHRISTENSEN) (312) 849-6279
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---> ALL USERS: BE FAMILIAR WITH MESSAGES 3, 6, AND 60
-----> AS OF 4/8/78, MESSAGES PACKED AND RENUMBERED <-----
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CBBS/TN is here to preserve what Ward and Randy started in the 1978.
Why not? Let's face it. Computers in the 70's and 80's were awesome and I was glad to be part of it.
telnet://cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800
- AltairZ80 running on Linux
- Intel 8080 @ 2MHz
- 56K RAM
- MITS FDC
- MITS 88-2SIO
- PMMI MM-103 Modem
- CompuPro System Support 1
- 8MB Floppy Disk
- CP/M 2.2 for Altair with 8MB BIOS by Mike Douglas
- CBBS BIOS for PMMI by Patrick Linstruth
- CBBS V3.6.2g