La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

BubbleRings

Absolutely wonderful article and find! I was a RBBS-PC guy myself, and ran a one-line bbs for a while on it, but it never got popular with anybody. I interrupted one guy looking around one time and brought him in to chat mode, and we ended up good friends; the whole reason I kept the bbs up was so he could beep me and call me into long chats a couple nights a week. It was a IBM-PC or XT, with two Seagate half-height 20MB ST-225 hard disks laying to the side of each other in the two bays--don't stack them, they will fry each other even with added fans installed! It made such a ozone smell in my bedroom I ran a dryer vent hose from the exhaust fan out my bedroom window. That's about all I remember, but I do have a copy of the software if anybody needs it.

gforce_de

"I'm glad I found this file..." nice! wish I had also some captures of old BBS sessions safed like this one - thanks Oscar!

notorandit

It's a rather weird combination of year, CPU and memory. Z80 is (still) an 8-bit CPU with 16-bit addressing. It cannot access more than 64kiB at a time. The hardware and the software needed to overcome that limit was worth more than an 8088/8086 (or compatible CPU) with MS-DOS and Telix. In 1993,the age of 80286 and 80386, 8088/8086 were considered low-low-end CPUs, let alone the Z80, even in Mexico. Not pointing my finger, just stating some facts.