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    From Ozz Nixon@21:1/144 to esc on Tue Feb 12 13:38:30 2019
    Hello esc.

    04 Jan 19 03:58, you wrote to all:

    this on TBBS. The reason I'm interested in MajorBBS and TBBS is
    because their door games are unique and second to none. Anyone
    interested in helping out?

    Would love to participate... especially on reverse engineering their doors. I have been aquiring many door companies in the late 90's... so I have tons of doors -- however, I have the built tools to help me capture all ANSI streams. It would just require putting some heads together to guess the algorithms... and viola a new flavor of chocolate is born ;-)


    Ozz

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Ozz Nixon on Thu Feb 14 12:35:46 2019
    Would love to participate... especially on reverse engineering their doors. I have been aquiring many door companies in the late 90's... so I have tons of doors -- however, I have the built tools to help me capture all ANSI streams. It would just require putting some heads together to guess the algorithms... and viola a new flavor of chocolate is born ;-)

    I'd like to pre-order a few boxes.. :)

    I have a friend running PCBoard.. so it's good to see PCBoard and others getting the attention they need/deserve.. :)

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Ozz Nixon on Thu Feb 14 23:08:22 2019
    On 12 Feb 19 13:38:31, Ozz Nixon said the following to Esc:

    this on TBBS. The reason I'm interested in MajorBBS and TBBS is because their door games are unique and second to none. Anyone interested in helping out?

    Would love to participate... especially on reverse engineering their doors. have been aquiring many door companies in the late 90's... so I have tons o

    What was interesting about TBBS was that it could run Dbase-III applications as doors. It made that software extremely appealing for businesses.

    Nick

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Atreyu on Fri Feb 15 07:15:14 2019
    Re: Re: MajorBBS
    By: Atreyu to Ozz Nixon on Thu Feb 14 2019 11:08 pm

    What was interesting about TBBS was that it could run Dbase-III applications as doors. It made that software extremely appealing for businesses.

    TBBS? I didn't know that. Throw a digiboard with 16 modems on a box and run that, and you've got and intranet before there was an internet.

    I ran an application back in 1991 called Excellenet. It connected a retailer's DOS-based point-of-sale systems together. After the store closed, they'd finalize their sales figures and close the register. At a set time, the store could call out over its modem to the Excellenet system and request a new copy of the price lookup file, then upload their sales figures to Excellenet. The file names were hex coded representations of the store numbers, to be unique.

    Sound familiar? I kept seeing commercial applications for FTN wherever I looked.
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  • From Ozz Nixon@21:1/144 to Atreyu on Fri Feb 15 10:51:06 2019
    Hello Atreyu.

    14 Feb 19 23:08, you wrote to me:

    On 12 Feb 19 13:38:31, Ozz Nixon said the following to Esc:

    this on TBBS. The reason I'm interested in MajorBBS and TBBS
    is
    because their door games are unique and second to none.
    Anyone
    interested in helping out?

    Would love to participate... especially on reverse engineering
    their doors. have been aquiring many door companies in the late
    90's... so I have tons o

    What was interesting about TBBS was that it could run Dbase-III applications as doors. It made that software extremely appealing for businesses.

    That is great to know - as I acquired Halcyon (Delphi dBase III+ Engine). Which
    has a SHELL component to run dBase FORMs etc as if my APP was the dBase.exe - did not think about it, but, I could merge SHELL into my CodeRunner server and viola same feature. (Halcyon is already merged into CodeRunner).

    * CodeRunner is my node.js type of engine - accepts connections and runs scripts - but provides a wide RTL like M$'s .net CLR framework.


    Ozz

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