Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:27:47 -0400 From: C.R.Bryan III Subject: rbbs 4.1/02 There was a version of RBBS for CP/M: RBBS 4.1 edit 02. Written in C, it compiled under BDS C on CP/M machines. I ran it on my Ampro Little Board 1-A (a Z80 single-board computer that bolted onto the side of a 5-1/4" floppy drive and came with CP/M 2.2 with a ZCPR3 CCP; the 1-B had a SCSI port and could use a hard drive in 5M partitions) 1984-86 using BYE's ring-back option (ring once and hang up; ring again in 30 seconds and the BBS would be booted and waiting... made for some panicky file-saves if I was doing some editing at the time). I had occasion to copy the C source to current machines for study and have it before me now. The credits read: First C version of RBBS, inspired by RBBS31 Originally designed and written by John C. Gilbert. Additional coding (mainly RBBSCIO.C) by Frank J. Wancho. Principle Beta testing and numerous suggestions by Sigi Kluger, with additional testing and hep from David Schmidt and Ron Fowler and others. This program was originally designed to support a restricted-access multi-user TurboDOS RCP/M system. This source is herewith released into the public domain with the understanding that bug reports and revisions be submitted to the LAZARUS R/CPM (915-544-1432) or via DDN to WANCHO@SIMTEL20. I know of one fully-public CP/M BBS that ran that version of RBBS: Ampro 2, in Burlington MA. The sysop, Bill D'Innocenzio, ran it as an East-Coast site for Ampro users and interested callers. Ampro1, in Mountain View CA, ran TBBS, I think. Rick Lehrbaum, now of linuxdevices.com and desktoplinux.com, designed the Ampro computer and was actively involved in the BBS community supporting it 1984-86 when I was a peripheral part of the CP/M BBS scene. C. R. Bryan III --CHR$(13) (my hacking signature at the time)