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From: bill@trotter.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: The future of simple BBS boards...
Message-ID: <1010@trotter.usma.edu>
Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 14:01:17 EST
Article-I.D.: trotter.1010
Posted: Mon Nov 16 14:01:17 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 22:34:59 EST
References: <4942@ncoast.UUCP> <246@usl-pc.UUCP> <558@mcrware.UUCP>
Organization: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
Lines: 38
Keywords: BBS future software complex
Summary: cheaper???

In article <558@mcrware.UUCP>, jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes:
> 
> While the phone line costs are past quibbling, I should point out that there
> are multi-user BBSs that run under OS-9/6809 on Tandy Color Computers, which
> shouldn't run you as much as an AT.
> 

You know I once thought that OS9 was a better bet than MSDOS too, but the CoCo
is not a cheaper way to go for this kind of a project.
Lets see now:
             CoCo 3 with 128k              199.95
             512k memory upgrade           149.95
             Hard disk interface           129.95
             MultiPak interface
               required for Hard Disk Int.  99.95
                                          ________
             Total                         579.95

  And of course this doesn't even include a Monitor or the Hard Drive itself.
Considering that a floppy from Radio Shack costs 179.95 (just the drive) you 
can imagine how much to add for a Hard Drive.  And then of course we need to 
buy the serial port plug in pak.  It was about $75 I don't know what it costs 
now and you can only put on one of them.  At this point you have a very
expensive single port BBS.  
  Personally I don't like PC hardware but I can buy an AT clone from any of a
number of sources for that kind of money.  And I don't need an At to run a BBS.
An XT will work just as well.
  So much for a cheap solution.
(All prices taken from Radio Shack's 1988 Catalog #419)

bill gunshannon


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