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daywane:
A few guys at work was talking about the old PCs
Atari's
Comadores
Ti 99

We all agreed the BBS was best for swaps and every thing else.
No Big Brother.

How hard would it be to set up a old BBS? No Internet. No Internet provider. Just a Phone # and the PC talks to PC

I have thought about Emulating The Atari and set up a BBS with that.
but every one else would have to also.
That dumb.
but The Atari is the only PC I ever logged on a BBS with.

Once I got A HP.  Windows Me .. I went to Internet.

TOK:
As cool as the real old stuff was (I was on lots of old Atari 8 bit and C64 BBS's), I think a PC with something like Renegade is the way to go. Its still new enough to get decent support, but still nothing like the internet.

protokatie:
http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/software.htm

These guys have a good faq and links to current BBS programs to DL.

I ran a BBS as a teen, it isnt that hard to do. It can be really fun too.

ChadTower:
There are only a couple of things on the net a person goes to that much effort to make secure.  SSL is extremely secure - so secure the gov't and financial institutions use it.  If you really need physical separation of networks that badly... just tell us you want to do it for nostalgia reasons and not security, eh?  The last couple of actual running BBS I read about in the paper were shut down for a pretty nasty reason.

somunny:
Man, I loved playing Trade Wars on my buddy's BBS back in the day...

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