Date   : Tue, 05 May 1998 10:52:01 +0100
From   : hick@... (gARetH baBB)
Subject: Re: FBBS

In message <03.199804281825.TAA03166@...>,
          marku@... ("Mark Usher") wrote:

> Now someone out there must have had a BBC / Master BBS going at some time.

CCl4 used to run on a beeb.

> Am I right in thinking that on it's own this doesn't do very much, and you

Yes.

> need some disc software to go with it, or am I missing some obvious way to
> start it ?

There were loads of different packages, EBBS, FBBS, HBBS, NBBS, OBBS (I'm
not joking here), ACMB/XFS, CARBBS, JOELBBS (ha) and on and on ...

CCl4 started off back in 1986 on FBBS. EBBS was written by James Eckhardt
with modifications by whoever - as with all these systems they were usually
*highly* customised by the sysops as they dabbled with the code.

There's a fair bit of CCl4 "history" on CCl4 ( http://fish.ccl4.org/java/ )
itself, maybe some of it should be put on http://www.ccl4.org/viewdata/ as
well.

Was that a plug ? Ah well.