Part of the fun was tinkering the tech of the time. Running a multinode bbs was the ultimate achievement! Multitasking DOS bbs software was a significant chal

Part of the fun was tinkering the tech of the time. Running a multinode bbs was the ultimate achievement! Multitasking DOS bbs software was a significant challenge. The most reliable I saw was OS/2 but folks used stuff like DesqView, PC-MOS, or mostly a separate PC for every node. Then there was inter-bbs communication, FIDO net and the like. You could send email across networks! Store-and-forward, slow, unreliable, but it worked, mostly. I used a pirated ROM to make my USR HST modem a Dual-Standard. 14.4 kbps over a phone line! I was a hog in slop!