[Coco] RIBBS/OCN/BBS'

[John Donaldson]

Dean,
    I sold my MM/1 to Dave Kelly back in 1999. He still has it and all 
the sources for both KRIBBS and KTERM.

John Donaldson


Dean Leiber wrote:


>

> On Jun 16, 2007, at 1:07 PM, John Donaldson wrote:

>

>> Dean,

>>  Yep sure was a RIBBS for OSK. It was called KRRIBS, since I did  the 

>> port of it to from the orginal RIBBS on a MM/1.

>>

>> John Donaldson

>>

>

>

> I haven't played with RIBBS(or KRIBBS) or my MM/1 in a while now. It  

> seems like the CoCo/OS-9 community on FIDO never existed because  

> there is almost no information left, but they were a very active  

> community. Anybody even remember the OCN? (OS-9 Community Network).   

> People seem to remember a lot of the other BBS's (like StG, which I  

> ran) but I haven't really heard anything about RIBBS and FIDO in  

> quite a while. I've been trying to find FIDO OS-9/CoCo message bases  

> to save for the CoCo/OS-9 archive, but all that seems to remain are  

> the little pieces left on tetxfile.com (the Alan Weston stuff.)

> Heck, I don't believe that there are ANY StG or AcBBS message bases  

> left! Almost the entire CoCo/OS-9 BBS scene is lost to history. if  

> I'm not mistaken, RIBBS was probably the most widely used BBS  

> software under OS-9, and after that probably StG and then AcBBS.

>

> As far as the OSK community goes, I believe that John's port of RIBBS  

> was the only BBS package that was completed for OSK. (Kudos to  

> John!.) StG had some beta software for OSK, but I don't believe that  

> it was ever completed. I do remember running it for a while on my MM/ 

> 1, but the networking part was broken in that you couldn't transfer  

> with the 6809 OS-9 StG network.  Without the networking, the whole  

> point was moot. That was about the time the whole OS-9 BBS scene died  

> a slow death as the internet took off. The StG nodes dropped off, and  

> the last main 'node' was in florida before the network completely  

> ceased to exist. I used to call in to warren's Oceanside BBS for a  

> while to read the FIDO Message bases, but then the CoCoList  

> eventually became the main source of contact for CoCo/OS-9 people.  

> Ok, now I'm  beginning to feel too nostalgic and melancholy.

>

> John, I hope you have that source code and binary safely archived  

> somewhere!

>

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