[Coco] RIBBS/OCN/BBS'

[Bob Devries]

For everyone's information, I have a full set of the files from the OCN on 
disk (and my hard drive).

If there is any interest, I can archive them, and upload them to the 
maltedmedia ftp site.

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Leiber" <adit at 1stconnect.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:23 AM
Subject: [Coco] RIBBS/OCN/BBS'


>
> On Jun 16, 2007, at 1:07 PM, John Donaldson wrote:
>
>> Dean,
>>  Yep sure was a RIBBS for OSK. It was called KRRIBS, since I did  the 
>> port of it to from the orginal RIBBS on a MM/1.
>>
>> John Donaldson
>>
>
>
> I haven't played with RIBBS(or KRIBBS) or my MM/1 in a while now. It 
> seems like the CoCo/OS-9 community on FIDO never existed because  there is 
> almost no information left, but they were a very active  community. 
> Anybody even remember the OCN? (OS-9 Community Network).   People seem to 
> remember a lot of the other BBS's (like StG, which I  ran) but I haven't 
> really heard anything about RIBBS and FIDO in  quite a while. I've been 
> trying to find FIDO OS-9/CoCo message bases  to save for the CoCo/OS-9 
> archive, but all that seems to remain are  the little pieces left on 
> tetxfile.com (the Alan Weston stuff.)
> Heck, I don't believe that there are ANY StG or AcBBS message bases  left! 
> Almost the entire CoCo/OS-9 BBS scene is lost to history. if  I'm not 
> mistaken, RIBBS was probably the most widely used BBS  software under 
> OS-9, and after that probably StG and then AcBBS.
>
> As far as the OSK community goes, I believe that John's port of RIBBS  was 
> the only BBS package that was completed for OSK. (Kudos to  John!.) StG 
> had some beta software for OSK, but I don't believe that  it was ever 
> completed. I do remember running it for a while on my MM/ 1, but the 
> networking part was broken in that you couldn't transfer  with the 6809 
> OS-9 StG network.  Without the networking, the whole  point was moot. That 
> was about the time the whole OS-9 BBS scene died  a slow death as the 
> internet took off. The StG nodes dropped off, and  the last main 'node' 
> was in florida before the network completely  ceased to exist. I used to 
> call in to warren's Oceanside BBS for a  while to read the FIDO Message 
> bases, but then the CoCoList  eventually became the main source of contact 
> for CoCo/OS-9 people.  Ok, now I'm  beginning to feel too nostalgic and 
> melancholy.
>
> John, I hope you have that source code and binary safely archived 
> somewhere!
>
>
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