Date   : Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:03:49 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: OBBS Software

On 21/12/2007, gARetH baBB <hick.bbc@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Jon Welch wrote:
>
> > OBBS was a bulletin board system which ran on a Model B linked to a Pace
> > Nightingale auto answer/auto dial modem.
>
> You do realise that the AA/AD bit of the Nightingale was an internally
> fitted board of the modem which attached to the user port ?
>
> I have the documentation for the AA/AD board if you want it.
>

What is it with OBBS this week?  I just had another guy asking about
it too (forwarded via textfiles.com)

<Steps forward and raises hand..>

It's mine.  I wrote it.  Any questions, point them this way.  But bear
in mind, it was 26 years ago, and I'm not a spotty teenager any
more...

Anyway, yes, the version sold by Pace was customised for the
Nightingale modem, which needed the optional autoanswer/auto-dial
board, which did indeed connect via the user port.  I still have the
prototype somewhere, but no nightingale modem any more.

It was originally writen for any generic modem that answered on it's
own and just raised RTS (or was it CTS?) when there was a carrier
present (and dropped it when the carrier disapeared.)  I still ran
things that way on my own BBS.

I've not got an image made of the Pace discs yet (though I know I have
a set of discs.) but I do have a GoMMC image of the last running set
from my own BBS; obviously a somewhat later version, which uses the
standard modem lines.

I'll see if I can fire it up under BeebEm and isolate the modem
handling routines for you - when I get a chance I'll zap out the
personal data from the last version and post it up somewhere, along
with the Pace version.

Jon - would like to see the telnet enabled BeebEm; is it released now? docs?

Rob