Re: Re: Multiline BBSes
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Fri Feb 27 2026 07:52 am

Mortar wrote to Nightfox <=-

MagorBBS used special plug-in cards that handled all the back-end stuff. You'd have a card that plugged into your PC which had a cable

&TOTSE, the Temple of the Screaming Electron, took a different approach.
The sysop ran Remote Access software, and kept adding 386SX boxes. He

I ran a CNET amiga BBS and ended up using a PME30 30 serial port ras. I had 30 supra modems zip tied to chicken wire suspended in a 2x4 frame allowing air flow all around each modem. Then coax ethernet linked it to the BBS and a T1. Added a slackware box to feed ppp/slp accounts. The amiga was easy to set to this configuration, just change the port from serial.device to telnet.device and later telser.device.

This was later replaced with multiple Bay Network 5000 chasis boxes stuffed with 48 port cards that were fed via the fiber cabinets that had dial toned backhauled from 36 dialing areas throught northern california. The BBS became forgotten mostly at that point.

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