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Article #71Re: Starting a BBS
From: Melissa Woo
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:39
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:39
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11dmcvay@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Daniel T. McVay) writes: : I wonder how much hard disk space do you need to start a BBS with? I plan in : the future to join the fray of proud SysOps running a BBS. It really depends on what you plan to do with your bbs. Do you want to offer files? national message bases? online games? I run a small Fidonet bbs with only around 25 message areas, and file areas specifically for OS/2 and Windows programs. The bbs is running on just a little 65 meg drive, but I'd kill for a bigger one, since I recently had to purge all font, wav, bitmap, etc. type of files to make room for my OS/2 file areas. I think I have around 12 megs free on the bbs drive right now. If you just want a tiny bbs, I've heard of people running on 20 megs. Heck, one of the Fido bbses in my net was running on two floppy drives! (I have absolutely no idea how he did that.) Melissa, melissa@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!romulus!melissa From: melissa@romulus (Melissa Woo) Subject: Re: Starting a BBS X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <1992Aug10.011345.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu> Message-ID: <BsrvDJ.HBy@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 14:39:18 GMT Lines: 18