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Comment by John on March 14, 2010 at 12:13am

Ok. I'll just name 2 in the sacramento area where I am. Omnisystems which was I think 36 node + 4 fiber
and powersystems which was 44 nodes plus 2 t1 lines. Both running worldgroups bbs. That is just 2 from my area off top of head bigger than that one. Aus was always behind the times. And this wasn't 1984 this was bout 1990

Comment by DAve Simpson on March 13, 2010 at 7:27pm

G'day John. Well did I put my foot in it? I always recall reading this line on one of Melbpc's main pages: "Melbourne PC User Group (Melb PC) started in 1984 and today is the world's largest PC user group with just under 8000 members." It was so long ago I thought to ask a friendly acquaintance from those days. He pretty much agreed with you and added: I think we could claim that we had the largest BBS in Australia with 24 - 28.8K modems, although some of the companies such as Hewlett Packard ran a BBS service for their customers where drivers and some software could be downloaded. We just used to claim that "we had the best". So fair enough John :) www.dsimp.com

Comment by John on March 12, 2010 at 9:26pm

Dave Simpson, Let me start by saying melbourne aus did NOT have anywhere even close to the biggest bbs. For two, what rules and taxes are you speaking of? there is no BBS tax. The only cost was a phone line and a computer than could run bbs software. And rules? BBS sysops didn't follow any rules lol.
I was (if memory serves) 1:203/1 on fidonet. One of the norcal hubs. Also on battle.net with the US/CAN vs Aus networks. The bbs's in Melbourne were nowhere near the size of the MEDIUM sized bbs's in US. My 12 node bbs was one of the smaller ones.

Comment by Christopher Whalen on March 12, 2010 at 5:58pm

Hehe... I think it wasn't until 2002 that I stopped referring to myself as a "SysOp" and renamed my title "System Administrator". XD

Comment by DAve Simpson on March 12, 2010 at 5:02pm

I remember when BBS's were really popular. The days before the Internet really took off. I was one of the early members of what became the biggest BBS: The Melbourne PC Users Group. At the time there were countless BBS's all over the world. 14400BPS modems made you put your goggles in those days. :) Then Rules and Taxes (from memory) were introduced and almost all of them went off air due to the cost. At the same time the Internet became popular and the rest is history.

Comment by Phoobar on March 12, 2010 at 5:24am

Ran one in Oklahoma City & for a month or so when I moved to Arizona. Being on FidoNet & other nets gave me a chance to move from Oklahoma to Arizona to have a better life.

Comment by Michael on March 12, 2010 at 4:55am

Indeed....space odessy 2001(717) was local to me and is listed on a few lists I have found. Even now see a facebook group for the BBS days (search there next). Old is the word :)

Comment by DragonHeart on March 12, 2010 at 4:51am

Sysop of The DJ's Dream BBS (3-0-5 till I die :)). Even attended the FINAL OneBBSCon (before Boardwatch magazine changed it to OneISPCon). I ran RemoteAccess, WIldcat, and finally MajorBBS (Worldgroup). I even have my tape backups of the BBS files and .ANS and .ASC files. Fun days!

Comment by James Stewart on March 12, 2010 at 2:09am

I just had to dig BBS: The Documentary out of the closet and watch it again tonight.

Comment by Anthony Citrano on March 11, 2010 at 11:30pm

Yup, SysOp of The Basement BBS (207) .. from about '87 to '91. Ran it with Telegard... :)

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