Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:04:53 +0000
From: Charles Angelich 
Subject: CoBBS - R Duncan?

R. Duncan wrote the original _non_working_ version of CoBBS for the RS
Color Computer (called the 'CoCo' by those of us who owned one).
Richard never got his software to function for more than a few hours
before crashing.

I was the sig section leader for telecom on the Compuserve CoCo sig and
had to either fix CoBBS or delete the files (policy - no non-functioning
downloads).  I began fixing CoBBS when Richard almost electrocuted himself
at work and was laid up for a year or two.

Meanwhile I rewrote 90% of the original code and did all of the online
support from Compuserve's CoCo sig that did eventually lead to
CoBBS being 'widely used'.

TuBBS was a direct ripoff of the CoBBS code with only minor changes. 
Brian Stretch (and friend) couldn't write a BBS from scratch to
save their lives.

Charles.Angelich