(RAD) BBS, which stands for Remotely Accessibly Driven Bulleting Board
Software, was written by James Williams from 1987 to 1988 while he was in
high school.  All development stopped in late 1988.

How it happened:

One of my class mates in high school ran a bbs that was called Magicians
Guild which was based on the source code of a public domain bbs program
called ~SThe Keep~T.   There were a lot of customized versions of ~SThe Keep~T
being run by a lot of sysops back in the 300 baud days.

I ran the Beyonder~Rs Alcove from 1986 to 1988 from my bedroom where I ran
everything from 6485 (later to become Ivory) to C-Net.  In 1987, I decided I
could do a better job at creating BBS software so I got a copy of the source
code to ~SThe Keep~T and spent the next 18 months of so doing various
modifications and enhancements by incorporating popular features from C-Net,
Ivory, and Electro-Com into the code base for my own BBS.  I decided in 1988
to release my ~Smasterpiece~T as freeware and named it RAD BBS.  I choose RAD
since I was 17 at the time and RAD was the word for ~Qcool~R.

To entice people to install and run RAD, I needed a ~Shook~T.  My hook was
that I embedded SID tunes ripped from my favorite games at the time in the
text editor and the waiting for a call screen to add to the ~Scoolness~T
factor.  It also did not hurt that I copied the look and feel of some of the
most popular features of the top C64 BBS packages at he time.

I think about dozen or so people ran RAD for a while.

Why I stopped working on RAD:

I got tired of fixing defects and dealing with demanding sysops.

In the end I met a girl that was more interesting then anything else in my
life at the time and the 5 ¼~T floppy that the RAD source code was on got put
into a box for safekeeping where it still resides today as a reminder of my
C64 days of fun.

Special Thanks:

I want to send special thanks for Darrell Spice (Spice BBS) for telling me
how to get color ASCII and SID music to work.