Putting an old board on line
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2022 7:35 pm
Hi everyone.
TUS, The Unknown Sysop from the Unknown BBS here.
I ran a BBS in Phoenix AZ from the early 1980s until the late 1990s. It started out on an Apple II with BBS software written in Basic. We moved to an x86 computer and ran several different packages including WWIV. But the last and most popular version of the board ran on MajorBBS.
I have all the backup files from the old board and I have gotten it to run on a DOS VM. But I just ran 6 dial-in modems back in the day and never ran a telnet service. So I don't have the add-on package for telnet. I'm fine just running my old 6 user license if I could get it to connect to telnet. But so far I have not worked out how to do that.
I can get the free 6.25 version to run and pick up a telnet connection. So how difficult should it be to transfer over the message boards from the old system to a fresh install of 6.25? A lot of my old users are interested in seeing their old poetry post and reliving all the teenage angst that they had posted. So I would like to bring the board back with the old menus and message boards. But I'm not sure what files to bring across from the old board. Any ace 6.25 sysops out there that can give me some pointers?
Thanks.
TUS, The Unknown Sysop from the Unknown BBS here.
I ran a BBS in Phoenix AZ from the early 1980s until the late 1990s. It started out on an Apple II with BBS software written in Basic. We moved to an x86 computer and ran several different packages including WWIV. But the last and most popular version of the board ran on MajorBBS.
I have all the backup files from the old board and I have gotten it to run on a DOS VM. But I just ran 6 dial-in modems back in the day and never ran a telnet service. So I don't have the add-on package for telnet. I'm fine just running my old 6 user license if I could get it to connect to telnet. But so far I have not worked out how to do that.
I can get the free 6.25 version to run and pick up a telnet connection. So how difficult should it be to transfer over the message boards from the old system to a fresh install of 6.25? A lot of my old users are interested in seeing their old poetry post and reliving all the teenage angst that they had posted. So I would like to bring the board back with the old menus and message boards. But I'm not sure what files to bring across from the old board. Any ace 6.25 sysops out there that can give me some pointers?
Thanks.