LesterIt has been a wild ride. I have so many thankful thoughts here about what a week it has been.
https://ravynnscribbles.blogspot.com/2025/08/tower-epilogue.html
Wes AFΓAJHoly time capsules, Batman... Here is the console screen of the last BBS that I operated, restored and working from a July 1996 CD-ROM backup. Logging-in this morning for the first time in nearly 30 years was... surreal.
Tip of the hat to @pheller and his TBBS archival work, and his work on "TBBSBox," a specialized fork of DOSBox tailored to making it possible to run TBBS on modern hardware. Amazing.
Doug Grinbergs@mediaarchaeologylab BTW, important #Denver area connections to #TBBS: Phil Becker, later formed #Broomfield-based #eSoft. Not positive, but pretty sure #TBBS ran on #Apparat's souped-up Newdos/80, rather than Radio Shack's #TRSDOS. #Newdos developers Jim Lauletta and Clifford Ide were based in Denver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bread_Board_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewDos%2F80
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparat%2C_Inc.
PSA: if you've got documented facts to add to Wikipedia articles, please jump in, edit articles
@mediaarchaeologylab Back in the day, I spent a lot of time - way too much π - talking to folks on #TRS80 #TBBS message boards (300 / 1200 / 2400 baud). #BBS community was mostly cool; no toxic anonymous twitter trolls, bots IIRCπ