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We publish everything of interest submitted. ! ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ ! ! ! ! For further information on The CENTRAL TEXAS SYSOP ASSOCIATION ! ! or this newsletter: ! ! CALL : WRITE : ! ! CTSA HOME BBS Central Texas Sysop Association ! ! CTSA UNLIMITED P.O. Box 49474 ! ! (512) 339-7199 Austin, Texas 78765 ! ! ! !====================================================================! CTSA ON THE GO Spring cleaning has started at CTSA. We have started cleaning house on CTSA Unlimited and we'll have a second phone line operating shortly. All of the file areas are going to be re-organized and the conferences are going to be re-arranged. If you can contribute some time to working on graphics screens for the file areas and menus please call me at 255-2294. We really want to put together something special and we would appreciate your thoughts and help to make this a SUPER bulletin board system. The Contest Committee will be starting a new contest soon and we need some volunteers to work on publicity and promotion. Call Frank Ramaekers at The Recording Studio BBS if you can help. The next few months are going to see a lot of changes as we get our house in order and our BBS up to speed. We would like to hear from each of you as to what CTSA can do for you and you can do for CTSA. We have been growing in numbers and now it's time for us to grow within. Stay in touch with CTSA Unlimited BBS and let us know what you think. Gene Chesser President - CTSA -=[]=- Though the Editor's Modem My plea has been heeded and fellow SysOp members of the CTSA have pitched in to put a little of themselves into the newsletter. As a result we have what hopefully will be the beginning of a monthly feature - Austin BBS histories. We begin with Tom Scallorn, SysOp of Buy a boaT and Daniel Aiken, SysOp of Dan's Den of Iniquity. I am sure that the rest of you would like to see the "true" story of your BBS included here for all the world to savor. To see your BBS included just upload a file to me at CP/M Lives! (512)258-8468. Let me know if you would like me to edit the file or use it "as is" and you shall see it on display in coming issues. My travels during the past month took me to Abilene, Midland and Odessa. In January I purchased a NEC MultiSpeed laptop and of course that new toy and my modem tagged along to west Texas. The NEC not only made fast work of my work on the road but also provided safe and sane diversions during the evening. I called computer stores in these cities and located numbers of local bulletin boards. Abilene was a success, I found the Vineyard to be a friendly place to visit and had an enjoyable chat with the SysOp. Midland must not be a BBS town. I located several BBS numbers but none answered and several had been disconnected. Perhaps the oil "bust" has run all the bulletin board operators out of town? San Angelo was more active with a few well operated boards - GEE! was the best and most active. If you are out that way or just want to do some modem traveling give some of these boards a try. *** Abilene Bulletin Boards *** @=300 Baud only #=300/1200 Baud %=300/1200/2400 Baud All boards are 24 hours/7 Days unless noted. Key City Msg Sys ....# 695-4057 Info Exchange North .% 673-8603 Apple Orchard:West ..# 692-6195 Info Exchange South .% 698-9630 CJC Nochange ........# 698-2219 (Limited access until verified) (6pm Fri to 8am Mon) M.Y.T.H. Inc. .......@ 692-0806 The Connection ......@ 673-9628 The Rat Maze ........@ 698-3501 The Databank ........# 692-3677 Space-Net ...........@ 692-1052 The Dragon's Lair ...@ 673-7781 The Trojan Horse ....# 676-5303 Dyess Towers ........@ 691-1394 The Vineyard ........# 692-7269 Ham Radio BBS .......# 672-5510 U.S.S. Enterprise ...@ 676-3900 (Hours change - usually after 9:00 pm Mon-Thurs.) San Angelo, Texas BBS list - Area Code 915 Texas Thunder ---------------------- Sysop - Colegate Spinks Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:658-7747 / V:653-2574 Baud - 300/450/1200 Comm - 8 data bits no parity Stat - Currently Operational Rem - Runs on an IBM-PC, using the RBBS system, messages and files are supported on a 10 Meg Harddisk. Board is sponsored in part by Computer Land of San Angelo. ========================== Bitfire ----------------------- Sysop - Steve Jones Phone - D:653-4770 / V:...-.... Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Baud - 300/600/1200/2400 Comm - 8 Bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Bitfire (PC Clone) 20 Meg, with NOCHANGE. Supports messages, bulletins and files section. Online games. For the general user. This board is sponsored in part by Bitfire Computer Company. Two inward lines. ===================== Game Master's Keep --------------------- Sysop - Sandy Larsen Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:658-3453 / V:655-6740 Baud - 300/1200 Comm - 8 Bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Tandy 1000, Nochange, Games and Adventure, using a Medevil Theme. ==================== Channel One -------------------- Sysop - Rick Bock Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:944-4700 / Voice:...-.... Baud - 300 Comm - 8 Bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Commadore 64, Home grown ====================== War Hawks --------------------- Sysop - Bruce Foreman Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:944-3320 / V:949-1616 Baud - 300/1200 Comm - 8 Bit, no Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Runs on an IBM XT using Collie. Military topic oriented, supports bulletins, messages, mail, and file transfer. Is supported by Wallace Studios ====================== The Under World ---------------------- Sysop - James Rizley Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:942-3309 / V:...-.... Baud - 300/1200 Comm - 8 Bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Runs on an Atari 130XE using BBCS 2.0 from Antic under Sparta Dos. Supports Bulletins, Messages, Mail, and File Transfer. Aimed at Atari, Commadore and Apple Users. Looks real good and clean. ==================== Gee! --------------------- Sysop - Dan Wilson Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:942-0514 / V:944-6366 Baud - 300/1200 Comm - 8 Bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Business oriented board, runs on an IBM XT, using Collie. Supports messages and files. Business oriented download library. Supported and operated by the education department within General Telephone. ==================== File Exchange -------------------- Sysop - Bob Thornton Hours - 24 hours, 7 days a week Phone - D:949-2200 / V:...-.... Baud - 300/1200 Comm - 8 Bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Supports messages and files. (more details soon - excellent system!) CENTURY BBS -------------------- Sysop - Uniden Hours - 24 hours daily Phone - 655 7234 / V: ??? Baud - 300/1200 Comm - Rem - Runs on Commodore 64. Message boards, E-mail, and games. ==================== Castle of Lost Hope -------------------- Sysop - Robert Fortin Hours - 24 hour operation Phone - 653 5761 Baud - 300 Comm - 8 bit, No Parity, 1 Stop Rem - Runs on Commodore 64, theme is fantasy role playing We are certainly privileged in Austin to have a large number of SysOps dedicated to operating BBSs on a regular basis. We have been spoiled by the number and variety of boards available to us locally. Regardless of your interests you can probably find a BBS in Austin run by a Sysop with like interests attracting other users with similar interests! My adventures in finding bulletin board numbers in west Texas brings up another item. The CTSA BBS list is a labor of "love" by Mike Stafford. As the BBSs in Austin change Mike miraculously keeps his list current. I have seen many BBS lists around but none to compare with Mike's CTSA BBS list. If you have not thanked him recently then take a few minutes to call Deep Thought and let him know that his efforts are appreciated and let him know of any new boards or changes to exiting boards. Also please help spread the word of the CTSA and our BBS list. Upload it to out of town boards, print a few copies and leave them at your favorite computer or software store. I intend to spread a few copies around so that someone traveling with a computer and modem won't be "lost" as I was in Midland without an active BBS to visit. I know there must be some boards in that town - but just try to find one by checking at computer stores! Everyone in the CTSA is a member of the Publicity Committee and can help spread the word! The following is a message exchange I captured in San Angelo on the GEE! Board. The content is relevant to our boards in Austin - and throughout the country..... From........: Bruce Foreman To..........: All Bbs Users Subject.....: What Gives? OK folks! For lack of "intelligent support" how many boards are !!YOU!! going to watch "go down"? I remember when good boards used to have downloads (like this one)...and uploads (like GEE! again)...AND an active and interesting message section. (Yes I'm on a soapbox again!) I have found so little substantive partication on most of the BBSs (local) over the last couple of months that I "pulled the plug" on mine! I can remember just 2 short years ago when BBSs were a lot of fun (and challenging to look over, too) BEFORE EVERYBODY HAD TO START HIDING BEHIND HANDLES! There was something happening on the boards then, and there was a pride and pioneering spirit for both SysOps and for users too. It's different now! See for yourself...Call all the boards and see either [ clean board...little or no message activity ] or [ "smart-alecky" use handles board...lotsa activity ]. Handles and "nonsense" completely ruined CB and if YOU don't don't start supporting both kinds of boards, handles and nonsense will ruin computer BBSs locally. So here's a challenge. Make this and some of the other "serious-semi serious boards come alive. Use the message bases for SOMETHING! Message 34 on 22 Jan 87 23:34 (RECEIVED) From........: Bruce Foreman To..........: Phil Reynolds Subject.....: Boards Thats about the size of it, Phil. There are a few boards the purpose of which is purely to provide the same kind of "smart-alecky" interchange that CB radio became. They are at times highly entertaining and lots of fun. For some reason that is the only kind of BBS here that sees interested support anymore and I feel that will before too much longer kill the potential the BBS concept has. I make the rounds of the "established" IBM boards at least once a week and see on most of them 1 to 4 new messages. Many of the more serious minded users also see this and participate less and less. The local scene is dying. I sure do hate to see it go this way. Message 40 on 24 Jan 87 01:40 (RECEIVED) From........: Phil Reynolds To..........: Bruce Foreman Subject.....: Boards Bruce, I know what *you* mean. I've asked for information on BBSs that would help me as a freelance writer/photographer and gotten no response. Examples: Is there a BBS in the Del Rio area? (No answer) Is there a BBS in the Lower Valley? (No answer) Does anybody sailboard (for photos for a book on sailboarding in Texas)? (No answer). I don't know if people just log on to read, or to download files, or what. But obviously, there's no sharing of information. I don't know what to say. My own board at 512/852-4354 is somewhat narrow in scope, specializing in marine science, photography and freelancing, but I seem to get lots of people who log on and then log off. ??? Message 41 on 24 Jan 87 10:56 (RECEIVED) From........: Steve Jones To..........: Phil Reynolds Subject.....: Boards Phil, Bruce, I can sympathize with you. However, operating boards which are narrow in scope, you should expect a very small cross section of the modem using populace to find your service interesting. Unfortunately, there seems no end in sight to the silliness that pervades San Angelo. I find this trend toward handles disturbing. How can one carry on an intelligent conversation when one doesn't even know to whom they are speaking? I have in the past, and presently do use a handle on several of the local systems, but make sure all users know who I am, and only use the handle to reference my frame of mind when I'm 'using' this character. I may stop if only to make my point that handles are overall, pointless. If the old diehards leave, what will become of modem telecommunications? I plan to go down kicking and screaming. For the indeterminate future, Bitfire will continue to provide the quality information and entertainment that it has since the beginning. I wish you and Bruce the best of luck, no matter your decisions. Steve Jones Message 44 on 24 Jan 87 22:08 (RECEIVED) From........: Bruce Foreman To..........: Phil Reynolds Subject.....: Boards People logging on, taking one quick glance at the menu and logging off is exactly what made me "pull the plug" this last time! I've watched this kind of thing on various BBSs I've had online for over two years now and even labeled that kind of caller a "menu checker". We will never have any idea of what they are looking for and its a mystery to me why they bought a modem in the first place. Oh well, I am enjoying getting the use of my own computer! Probably the best place to find a list of BBSs nationwide is "The Computer Shopper", a sister publication of "Shutterbug Ads" (and in the same tabloid format too). As a matter of fact they will list your system (and mine too, next time) and you might find yourself getting more calls that way. I'll probably put another one online later with a change of format. But I'm with you, the "menu checkers" drive me nuts! -=[]=- History of Buy a boaT BBS January 1987 Tom Scallorn, SysOP Buy a boaT was established as a business in August 1986. Having had personal experience as a buyer and seller of boats I was frustrated with the alternatives available to consumers. The most common way to sell boats was to list them in "classified" ads in newspapers or other periodicals or to pass this information on by word of mouth. If the listing was in a periodical you were expected to pay up front, whether or not the service produced results. In addition, due to the cost, I had always felt very limited by what I could put into an ad. From the buyers end it was an endless string of phone calls to dealers or ad originators explaining what I was looking for, what I was willing to pay, and asking more questions about what was for sale. A computer database, with records having fields assigned to the most common questions, and a decent sized field for general comments might help in making the decision to buy or sell. This seemed to be another alternative. After all, a similar concept was well established in the realty field, Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and another company in town was operating a similar business concept dealing with used car sales. Initiating a policy of user supported funding came as a result of the addition of the RBBS. I selected a database program to implement my idea,PC-FILE III, by Buttonware. It is simple, capable of handling a fairly large number of records, and does not require extensive setup work. Being user supported software it was reasonable in cost. The computer BBS came in November 1986 as a result of my attempt to help a friend overcome his intimidation of computer BBSs. Thank God there is much less fear in the younger generation than in mine! I remember well the fear and paranoia of my first experiences with computers and BBSing not so long ago! After downloading some BBS software, working with it for a week, and never getting it to work properly with my modem, I eventually got hold of RBBS-PC by Tom Mack with revisions by CTSA. Several more hours of set up and editing of files and I had a BBS running! Sometime during this period the thought occurred that other BBSers might be interested in the service that I had to offer with Buy A boaT. It was also a way that an investment in a computer system might pay its own way. In late November 1986 I felt ready to go "public". Welcome to the joys [?] of SYSOPing and running a business! The experience is often unreal. Bulletin boards seem to take their own personality as a result of input from users and the Sysop! Some boards are totally independent and may be operated at the total discretion of the SYSOP. Others, like mine, have a business "sponsor" and legal/ethical aspects enter into the system operations to a much greater degree. In any case Buy a boaT BBS exists for two prime purposes: 1> To promote my business and make it into a profitable endeavor. 2> To help my users/clients in a manner which is beneficial to all concerned. No story is complete without three essentials: what it was like, what happened, and what it is like now. I believe that the previous paragraphs cover the first two essentials. Now for the third! I started with a PC's Ltd Turbo PC, two floppies, a 20 meg HD, color monitor, 1200 baud modem, Citoh 1550 printer, Brother M1509 printer, one telephone line, and an idea. I have added two phone lines, one for the BBS itself, one for voice communications relating to the BBS and to Buy a boaT affairs. The phone lines are monitored by me, an answering machine, or the computer 24 hours a day. I also have added a 2400 baud modem and an additional 20mb hard drive. As a result instead of working 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week I get to work for 10 to 16 hours a day 7 days a week! Has it been worth it? Well, I've met many people that I believe are becoming close friends. I feel that I am providing a worthwhile, needed service that I enjoy and is enjoyed by users. I really believe that we do only come this way once, so why not enjoy it to the fullest!!! -=[]=- Rags to Riches Rise of Daniel's Den of Iniquity Daniel Aiken, SysOp It all started in the middle of June last year when I bought my first Modem...about a week later I figured out how to make it work! It came bundled with Bitcom. Need I say more...? Despite Bitcom I was finally calling my first BBS's and seeing what they were all about. I was soon infected with the dreaded virus, Modem Addictus, and found myself sitting in front of the tube everyday after work calling BBS's all over Austin...I was hooked. Life went on fairly routinely until one day in early September, Modem Addictus took total control of my will. I began to hear voices! The Modem Addictus virus in my mind spoke, "Gee Dan, running a BBS looks like a real gas, why don't you see if you can set one up? Just for fun Dan, not really go on-line or anything serious, just wanna see what it is all about." The seed was planted and I replied, "Sure, why not! Just some harmless fun! Its not for real, right?" Little did I know what I was getting into! The evil possessor of my will replied, "And besides Dan, a sick mind is a terrible thing to waste!" How could I argue with that? I have been looking for a good use for my mind for years. Approximately two weeks later with bleary eyes, pale skin and less hair, I had RBBS working with my modem. At this point, I made an effort to control the virus, turn it back and take control of my life. But Modem Addictus is an insidious little beast and it refused to leave me alone. My friends and strangers on the street gave me strange looks as I argued out loud with the disease in my brain! Modem Addictus was more powerful than I was! It started reading the computer ads in the newspaper. It found an ad and forced me to read it! "CompuAd has such a deal Dan!" it said I couldn't refuse the desires of the virus and read the ad. Before I could do anything Modem Addictus took off with $1400 of my hard earned savings and bought a second computer for itself! What did it get with my bucks? A Standard Turbo XT with 1 Meg RAM, 20 Meg HD, Printer, Mono monitor, etc...and of course a second modem! Thankfully it chose the same brand of modem I already had, after two weeks to get RBBS to cooperate with my modem I sure as hell didn't want to try a different one!!! The beginning of October saw the Den of Iniquity on-line. Modem Addictus forced me to tell several friends with modems about the "Den" and gave the number out hoping to infect others. As the disease progressed I was forced to have a second phone line installed (a sure sign of terminal Modem Addictus!). After that phone line was installed the virus and I sat and waited for callers to fall into our clever trap! But, no one called! Finally we decided to put the number on Mike Stafford's BBS list, after joining CTSA of course. When the new list came out Dan's Den of Iniquity started getting a few calls. About this same time the Communications SIG of the CTPCUG was getting started. Modem Addictus forced me to attend the first meeting and I was "volunteered" as chairman! Since I was still using Bitcom, it was decided that I would be an ideal person to write a check list for setting up Qmodem! In the process of learning Qmodem, calling other boards to ask questions, leaving messages to call my board, things started picking up in the Den. Then the new CTSA list came out and I started seeing names in the callers log that I didn't recognize. "Eureka", Modem Addictus cried, "It's working!!!" New callers to infect were showing up on the board! By that time there were a few messages in the message base and I had left lots of messages to new users welcoming them to the Den of Iniquity and informing them that they were validated. I think I posted at least half the messages that first month just trying to get the ball rolling and make people feel welcome. I figured if there was mail waiting for everyone then they would all post or feel guilty about not posting!!! And once they had posted a message Modem Addictus had an opportunity to creep into their minds! All in all, it seemed to work. Some of course never called back thus escaping the bug and others became regular callers hopelessly entrapped by the deadly disease! Once the first discussion got started, the message base really took off. I don't remember what that first topic was but who cares, once it started they were trapped! Callers have gone on to discuss airplanes, ultralights, helicopters, flying over the handlebars of bicycles, the merits of refrigerators for storage of odds and ends, whether Michael Masterson really exists or is an hallucination, Duane Campbell's Super Script files, frat rats, beer, new(ab)users, ALL CAPS MESSAGES and more. The level of insanity grows each day. Most of all, the level of humor is high and many messages are tongue in cheek, which makes reading the messages a lot of fun. And through it all Modem Addictus creeps into the minds of unsuspecting callers, infecting them with desires for faster modems, new communications programs, more phone lines, and new computers! That is how the Den of Iniquity has gained its reputation as a collection point for a bunch of crazies who ought to be confined in straight jackets!!! As you all well know, you have to be either crazy or be bitten by Modem Addictus to become a Sysop in the first place! Just before Christmas I reorganized the files system because I had received a lot of good uploads. I had to create four additional directories to handle all the different kinds of files folks had sent me. It is now mid January and I have to do it again! A Sysop's work is never finished once Modem Addictus strikes!!! Recently, my good friend Deborah Campbell designed and produced some fancy new menus and welcome screens for the board. The bug had gotten to her too! Boy, they really spruced the place up a lot! She reorganized the layout of the menus so they made better sense and the most commonly used commands are across the tops of the menus where they are easy to find. I have received many compliments and I pass them along to Deborah. I have placed an acknowledgement at the bottom of the bulletin screen giving her credit for the fine menus and welcome screens. Modem Addictus and I believe in giving public credit where credit is due and I think that makes callers feel welcome to contribute to the board and help make it what it is. Strange though, users' most strident request is that I am not to post any more of my jokes in the message base!!! Ha Ha Ha!!! Little do they know that I am not the writer of those nor do I have any control over them - it is Modem Addictus at work! All in all, the Den of Iniquity has taken off a lot faster than I ever dreamed possible. I have not puzzled out exactly why it has become so popular except that reading the messages provides good entertainment and I listen to my users requests to change this and that. Modem Addictus says it is all his doing, that his magnetic personality has made the difference! Ha! It is a result of my efforts not his! Sure, I help him infect others with the disease, but without me where would he be today? So much for the The Rags to Riches Rise of The Den of Iniquity! If you want to read funny and crazy messages and are willing to risk the infectious virus, Modem Addictus, call Dan's Den and check it out!!! I hope your sides don't hurt too long from laughing! -=[]=- The following was in Byte Magazine, February 1987, Volume 12, Number 2, Letters: "I am a teacher who, over the past two years, has gotten into using computers; not because I wanted to but because I needed computers in order to do my work as an educational program evaluator. In doing this, one of the areas that I have been interested in is communications. Thus, I have spent a lot of time on local and sometimes far-remote bulletin board systems and I have found out that most of these systems carry the same kinds of programs and educational administration and evaluation. Since it is evident that there are no bulletin-board systems for educators to exchange ideas on issues, nor to exchange applications which they have developed for program evaluation and administration, nor to learn about other's "impressions" on instructional software. I am setting one up for this purpose. I would appreciate it if you would inform your readers about his service. I would also appreciate any comments or ideas you or they may have on making this BBS useful to educators. If anyone has any questions or would like to discuss this further, please leave me a message on the BBS at (616)754-3077. Marianne C. McFall Greenville, MI (ed. If you have interests or knowledge in this area give her a call.) -=[]=- Curtosey of Kevin Basey.... The following from INFO-MAT Magazine, Vol 2, No. 5 January 27, 1987 Copyright (C) 1987, by BBS PRESS SERVICE, INC. by Tim Elmer ---------------------- COMPUSERVE REACHES OUT TO EUROPE, FAR EAST ---------------------- (BPS) -- Computer Sciences Corp. and CompuServe Inc. Jan. 15 announced an agreement to offer CompuServe's corporate electronic communications systems and business-related databases to companies in Europe and parts of the Far East. According to C. Randles Lintecum, Infonet vice president of new business development for CSC's Infonet network services, the five-year agreement calls for Infonet to market and support a wide range of CompuServe products, including corporate videotex systems, demographic and financial databases, news services, and travel information. The expanded Infonet service will allow corporations overseas to access the information using personal computers or terminals. "Over the past few years, computer and data communications technologies have accelerated the globalization of business," said Lintecum. "With deregulation in the United States and United Kingdom, financial markets are exploding with ideas and opportunities for investors worldwide. With this timely access to changing financial information, corporations in Europe and Asia will be on a par with those in the U.S. who have easy access to a wealth of investment data, and the means to communicate it effectively." For CompuServe, the partnership with Infonet represents a significant commitment to market its business services overseas. "The result of this agreement is a substantial broadening of the market for our corporate electronic communications and financial database product offerings," said Robert J. Massey, CompuServe vice president of commercial sales. CompuServe currently provides communications, information, and value- added telecommunication network services to 1,200 companies through a field sales and support staff in 31 U.S. cities. In addition to its commercial products, the Columbus, Ohio-based CompuServe provides information services to more than 330,000 individual personal computer owners in the U.S., Canada, and Japan through the CompuServe Information Service. Headquartered in El Segundo, CA, CSC is a major supplier of computer and communications systems and services to government and industry. CSC's Infonet network provides technical and end user support in 27 countries and serves customers in 70 countries. -=[]=- That's all for this month! Remember to contribute to your newsletter! Call CP/M Lives! 512-258-8468 with your articles. You may also upload to CTSA Unlimited at 512-339-7199 or mail them to Central Texas Sysop Association, P.O. Box 49474, Austin, Texas 78765. Any comments, suggestions and yes, even complaints, can be sent in the same way! Ttthhhhats all fffolks!