[Coco] Coco BBSs

[John Orwen]

I can remember the last time I did.
I ran a multi (4 ) line BBS from 1988 until 1996.
It was run on 3 pc's and used Mustang Software's Wildcat BBS software.
It initially had file sections for Tandy including the Coco, for Apple 
eventually Macintosh, and Amiga computers.
The Coco section was very active from 1988 until 1990 taking calls from 
around the world all hours of the day and then started quickly fading 
out of sight as other computers became more popular.
It was initially called "SWL" for Southwest Lincoln and then as it grew 
was called "Heart of the Country" HOTC.
Toward the end of its life it had 18 SCSI CD-ROMs online for downloading 
from and 3 9Gb SCSI hard drives.
It at the end had Fidonet mail access and downloaded files 24 hours a 
day from Planet Connect.
Some of you may remember having called it sometime before 1992. At that 
time it became a DOS and PC Windows only BBS.

In the spring of 1996 I made my last BBS call with a modem and quit 
receiving modem calls over the telephone line
to a BBS.



On 2/13/2012 2:04 PM, Steve Batson wrote:
> Not to state or ask the obvious, but isn't just about everything being
> supported less and less on BBSs?
> I can't even think of the last time I fired up a modem. And even for the
> CoCo, I think most people are using the web and transferring files to CoCo
> when needed. The web is certainly more user friendly than a BBS.  :)
>
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> From: "Bill"<cwgordon at carolina.rr.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 10:48 AM
> To: "Coco Enthusiasts"<coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: [Coco] Coco BBSs
>
> Are there any actual Coco BBSs running on Cocos out there?
>
> I'm setting back up my Coco section on my BBS (it's a PC based web and
> telnet access BBS) including pdf versions of the various Coco magazines,
> dsk
> images of the software could find, and a RSS feed from Color Computer at
> Yahoo Groups (wish there was an RSS feed from here) and whatever else Coco
> I
> can lay my hands on. Still got a ways to go, but seems Coco is being
> supported less and less on BBSs.
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