[Coco] RIBBS/OCN/BBS'

[Dr. Turnip Q. Moron]

on 06/16/2007 9:12 PM, Bob Devries at devries.bob at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.
> 
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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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