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  • Re: the Night Owl BBS

    From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Brian Martin on Thursday, January 02, 2025 08:10:33
    Brian Martin wrote to MRO <=-

    so what do you call evenings?
    it's 6pm my time and no connect

    I bring up the Host around 7pm GMT
    usually and it runs till the early
    hours, usally around 6am. With North
    America east coast being 5 hours behindthat'd be from about 2pm-1am so stil counts as evening for those in the
    East. Westerly places I suppose
    couldn't describe it as an evenings
    only BBS, more of late morning-
    afternoon, sorta thing. Would welcome avisit from you , sincerely Brian

    Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age?
    That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
    don't have internet access 24 hours a day?

    = Synchronet = My Brand-New BBS

    You should fix this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



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  • From codefenix@VERT/DCHAOTIC to Gamgee on Friday, January 03, 2025 13:12:00
    Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age? That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you don't have internet access 24 hours a day?

    He said in his ad it's a Videotex system, which is vintage. If it's the same kind of Videotex I know, then it's basically the same thing as a Tandy/RadioShack Color Computer, but without the cartridge port on the side.

    I could definitely understand not wanting to run something that old 24/7.

    ... When all else fails, read the instructions

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to codefenix on Friday, January 03, 2025 21:21:55
    codefenix wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age? That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
    don't have internet access 24 hours a day?

    He said in his ad it's a Videotex system, which is vintage. If it's the same kind of Videotex I know, then it's basically the same thing as a Tandy/RadioShack Color Computer, but without the cartridge port on the side.

    Ahhh, I must have missed that part.

    I could definitely understand not wanting to run something that old
    24/7.

    I suppose so, but sometimes a cycling on/off, with associated
    temperature changes, is worse for electronics than being in a steady ON
    state, where temperatures are stable.



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  • From Brianm@VERT/MAGNUMUK to Gamgee on Sunday, January 12, 2025 00:32:22
    Re: Re: the Night Owl BBS
    By: Gamgee to Brian Martin on Thu Jan 02 2025 08:10:33

    Brian Martin wrote to MRO <=-

    so what do you call evenings?
    it's 6pm my time and no connect

    I bring up the Host around 7pm GMT
    usually and it runs till the early
    hours, usally around 6am. With North
    America east coast being 5 hours behindthat'd be from about 2pm-1am so stil counts as evening for those in the
    East. Westerly places I suppose
    couldn't describe it as an evenings
    only BBS, more of late morning-
    afternoon, sorta thing. Would welcome avisit from you , sincerely Brian >
    Curious, what would make you do such a schedule, in this internet-age?
    That used to be done so as to not tie up the phone lines, but... you
    don't have internet access 24 hours a day?

    = Synchronet = My Brand-New BBS

    You should fix this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



    ... Press any key to continue or any other key to quit
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
    An Acorm Master 128 is an 8bit machine, which has one serial input, therefore only one caller at a time. My machine is now 40 years old so a 24/7 operation is not a good idea for a machine thats so old. The board is very,very retro

    and a reflection of what Viewdta boards were like in the 1980's UK. So a limited schedule is appropriate and consistemt with how things were back then. Viewdata is now available with SyncTerm. You can access a new versio here https://sourceforge.net/projects/syncterm/


    Thanks Brian ..

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