Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! Message-ID: <8806300043.aa16266@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 30 Jun 88 04:34:26 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 80 >I would also like to thank the folks that call the system, for making us >the oldest, most often called system in the entire southeastern United >States, and perhaps the oldest in the country. > >HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MIAMI'S BIG APPLE - 305-948-8000 > >UUCP: crash!pro-exchange!bsherman >ARPA: crash!pro-exchange!bsherman@nosc.mil >INET: bsherman@pro-exchange.cts.com Happy Birthday! You may indeed be the oldest BBS in the Southeast, but the OLDEST BBS is almost certainly CBBS in Chicago. The following is about 18 months old, but I'd risk a small wager that the number remains active... -------------------------Forwarded Message-------------------------------- If your modem calls (Chicago) (312)-545-8086 You get the World's oldest BBS. Here's an edited version of what I got - ** WELCOME TO WARD AND RANDY'S CBBS(R) ** (COMPUTERIZED BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM (R)) ** (In operation since 2/16/78) You are caller 162361; next msg =34285; 462 active msgs. 6/9: New Chi. BBS list msgs 16-19 Prev. call 06/04/86 @ 07:11, next msg was 33612 The system has only three major functions: --> Entering messages --> Retrieving message summaries --> Retrieving messages It was conceived, financed, and is run by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess for message communication between computer hobbyists. Typical message subjects include: 'something for sale', 'need help with something', 'club meeting notice', etc. Feel free to leave a message on any hobbyist computer related subject. Commercial 'ads' ARE permitted, providing they are hobbyist related. The hardware consists of: North Star Horizon S-100 mainframe w/4MHz Z-80, 64K RAM, 5M hard disk, HS4IO serial board 2400 baud modem (rotating ARK (Paradyne) and Courier (USRobotics)) Scitronics clock board - Appropriate CBBS SUBJECTS: C, assembler, AI, programming techniques, communications, etc. No non-computer related topics, please. - Specifically the CP/M, MS-DOS/PC-DOS, and UNIX operating systems. Computer interfaceable music synthesizer msgs welcome. - Commercial msgs in above areas welcome - Pers. msgs between hobbyists/hams OK - PLEASE avoid frivolous msgs - Messages using fictitious names, ****'s, ----'s, centering, or other space/time wasters, or inappropriate subjects ARE DELETED. - Use lower case if you have it, PLEASE. (Caps for EMPHASIS). - Please don't leave #'s/passwords for NON-PUBLIC systems, or offer to trade such passwords. - Please don't offer to buy/sell/trade COPIES of licensed software you have purchased for a single user. --------------------- Disclaimer: --- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} Univ. of Connecticut !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL "It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." - Adm Grace Hopper