Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:44:28 -0700 From: Richard Duncan Subject: RE: CoBBS - R Duncan? (fwd) Jason, Thanks for forwarding the email. Mr. Angelich is incorrect in some areas and I cannot account for the others. The concept of CoBBS which was one of the first and few bbs systems for the Color Computer at that time came as a result of a computer club meeting in Memphis where several individuals who operated TBBS systems on a TRS Model I said that the coco was incapable of running a BBS like that. I felt they were wrong and wrote the BBS with its operation modeled after the TBBS system. My CoBBS, much differently than Mr. Angelich's comment, ran for several years and it in its day not only ran one, but two Color computers tied together with 8 floppy drives. It did not crash every few hours. Where he got that information I don't know, nor does it make any difference to me at this point. It worked. Crashed would occur occasionally, but mainly on the floppy drive which was not always reliable especially in the amount of service mine were performing. CoBBS was written and the code freely given out. Rainbow printed the listing, but there were errors in their printing. However, the good code that DID work was posted on Compuserve and distributed as people requested. However, there were a number of individual people who hacked on CoBSS, changed it a little, uploaded to Compuserve, renamed it or whatever. Doesn't matter. The only code I concerned myself with was what people received directly from me and there were several people running that BBS. The point of CoBBS was to prove that the color computer could keep up with the Model I and it did. By the time of my electrical accident, I had moved past CoBBS and was no longer using it moving on in technology. At the time of the accident I was not running a Coco, but an amateur BBS on an IBM XT with 5 RF ports -- two on HF frequencies at 500 watts each and three VHF/UHF ports networked nationwide under a FCC special temporary authority. Life moves on. TuBBS did appear to be my code with a few changes. However, CoBBS was always in the public domain and I had moved on. While I supported it the best I could including calls at 2am for routines that were never in my code, it was never a commercial venture. As to Mr. Angelich's part, more power to him if he kept it going. Should I be concerned 20 years later? I doubt I will lose any sleep at all. He can have whatever credit he would like to have as I don't need it. Those who knew me and used the system remember it operated fine for them, that many, many messages were passed during its time and people in the club admitted the Coco could hold its own against the Model I. Richard