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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BBS Info Needed - HELP!!
Keywords: BBS, communication
Message-ID: <2770@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 08:18:14 GMT
References: <1703@dsac.dla.mil>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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In article <1703@dsac.dla.mil>, nff4080@dsac.dla.mil (Sue Frederick) writes:
> 
> 		I need info regarding the HW/SW needed to start and run a
> 	BBS.  It will be small and local, but I do not know the first thing
> 	about how to set up a BBS.  

	Modem, hard disk space, and software, plus a little imagination
and persistence, that's all.
	For software, a good choice is Galacticomm's The Major BBS,
mostly because the 2 phone-line version is only $59.  I had it up and running
for a while, but gave it up because it didn't have hierarchical menus
(that is, SIGs with sub-SIGs) - it all branches from root.  However, if
file uploading and downloading are peripheral (as opposed to the whole
reason for setting the thing up) then it's pretty good.  For the latter,
I kind of decided TBBS was the best way to go, but it's $295. I went
through a couple of the Shareware BBS software, and either I didn't like
the look and feel, or they just plain didn't  work on my machine. 
(Spitfire, I recall, didn't work, TAG worked very well locally, it just
wouldn't answer the phone.  I never was able to figure out why.)


-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                           "Trust me. I'm almost a doctor."