The reason I haven’t posted much in the last few days is that I’ve been busy getting some new things online.<\/p>\n
In 1982, I started Eskimo North as a single line BBS on a Radio Shack TRS-80 model III with a whole of 48 Kbytes (yes that is KILObytes, not megabytes or gigabytes), and 280 Kbytes of disk. It grew on that platform to about 3 Mbytes of floppy disk and then got moved to a model IV initially with 64 Kbytes of RAM and then later 128 Kbytes of RAM.<\/p>\n
In 1985 it was moved to a Unix based Tandy 16B (actually Xenix) and initially 4 lines, expanded to 11 lines with some custom hardware hacks to the machine.<\/p>\n
Then in 1991 went to a Sun 3\/180 which was very rapidly upgraded to a Sun 3\/280, and then Sun 4\/280 (which involved changing out CPU boards). Then was supplimented with a Sun 330.<\/p>\n
In 1992 Eskimo North was connected to the Internet and started providing Internet services.<\/p>\n
Now, in 2006, Eskimo North has just launched a FREE Web based Bulletin Board system returning to our original roots.<\/p>\n
Give it a try: http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/bbs\/<\/a><\/p>\n The reason I haven’t posted much in the last few days is that I’ve been busy getting some new things online. In 1982, I started Eskimo North as a single line BBS on a Radio Shack TRS-80 model III with … Continue reading