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From: mct@ihlpe.ATT.COM (452is-Thompson)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Starting and running a BBS
Message-ID: <4773@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 May 89 11:50:23 GMT
References: <565@cbnewsl.ATT.COM+
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <565@cbnewsl.ATT.COM+, by jmbj@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (james.m.bittman):
+ I'm interested in setting up a "product user" bbs.  I would like
+ perspective buyers to be able to download information and an
+ executable demo.  I would like purchasers to be able to download
+ certain files, upload problems or questions, post and read messages.
+ 
+ I am planning on dedicating an 8-mhz AT, running dos, for this purpose.  
+ My hard disk is dying, so I need to get a new one.  I will start off
+ with one-person support, but I would like to be able to grow.
+ 
+ 	1)  What hard disk size do I need?
+ 	2)  What hard disk speed is necessary?
+ 	3)  What types of modems will be required?
+ 	4)  What software will serve my immediate and
+ 		future needs?
+ 	5)  Is there any other hardware that I will need?
+ 
+ In other words, I know nothing!  ANY and ALL help will be greatly
+ appreciated.  Information, pointers to information, applicable books
+ and magazines would be wonderful.  I will, of course, 
+ post a summary or respond to mail requests for the information 
+ I receive.  I'm sorry if this has been gone over before, but I 
+ NEVER thought I would be a "sysop."
+ 
+ Thanks!
+ Jim Bittman, att!whuts!jmbj

If you call the Aquilla BBS at 312-898-5806 and enter an "O"
at the menu or leave your phone number in a message to the 
sysops we will be glad to give you a private sysop number 
or our voice lines and we will gladly help you.

		Craig Thompson