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The Computerized Hobbyist Bulletin Board System ... was conceived, designed, built, programmed, tested, and installed in a 30 day period (January 16, 1978 to February 16, 1978) by the two of us.Alt URL
Since acquiring the venerable Hermes Macintosh BBS program last Spring, new owner Lloyd Woodall of Computer Classifieds has developed a major upgrade package. Programmer Robert Rebbun has added over 70 new features and enhancements to this widely used program that now supports color ANSI graphic menus in addition to ASCII menus.
Skyline BBS, for the Amiga, was originally marketed under the name 'Atredes BBS'. It was written by someone named Michael Cox who lived in El Paso, TX in the mid/late 80s. ... It was, BTW, cool software which allowed for plain text, ANSI graphics, as well as a proprietary graphical point and click 'SkyPix' UI using special terminal software ('SkyTerm').
Amid a (mostly) text-only, pre-Web world, the 'Instant Graphics!' protocol ... enabled Atari ST bulletin board systems to offer visitors vibrant vector graphics, animations, sound effects, music, and point-and-click mouse interactions.
But the real blow was the arrival of the Remote Imaging Protocol (RIP) in September 1992, which became the dominant graphics format for PC BBSes. ... [IGS and RIP] aimed to make graphical user interfaces possible on BBSes. They had mostly the same capabilities. And they shared the same fate: obsolescence.
[T]he height of the St. Louis BBS scene was from July 1993 until June 1995, the peak month being June 1994. ... But after June 1995, the scene began to collapse.
The BBS system chosen was Hermes (Price F & Yount Ralph, 1991), a character-based popular billboard system running on the Mac, but accessible from any computer system with VT100 terminal emulation.
Skypix is a way of sending graphics, fonts, brushes, and (soon) sound samples over the phone line via modem. It is an extension of ANSI that takes advantage of the Amiga's graphic power. ... At this writing (May 24) most of the systems listed will still be running Atredes 1.0, a much less sophisticated system than 1.1. ... ATREDES, SKYPIX, and SKYPAINT are Copyright © 1988, 1989 Michael Cox. All rights reserved worldwide.
The Computerized Hobbyist Bulletin Board System ... was conceived, designed, built, programmed, tested, and installed in a 30 day period (January 16, 1978 to February 16, 1978) by the two of us.Alt URL
The Computerized Hobbyist Bulletin Board System ... was conceived, designed, built, programmed, tested, and installed in a 30 day period (January 16, 1978 to February 16, 1978) by the two of us.Alt URL
