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Cheap BBS server

Reliving the age of BBSing in the 21st century.

berkeley-goodloeBerkeley Goodloe
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This project was created on 01/11/2015 and last updated 5 years ago.

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This project is about identifying inexpensive, lightweight hardware necessary to run the WWIV bbs software. Ultimately the goal is to bring the BBS live, with connectivity through telnet, and multinode connectivity

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  • Link to list of small boards with x86 processors

    Berkeley Goodloe • 01/11/2015 at 05:53 • 0 comments

    Found this link to small PC boards with x86 processors.

    http://liliputing.com/2012/10/more-small-pc-boards-with-x86-processors-for-75-or-less.html

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Gravis wrote 08/22/2018 at 14:38 • point

Fun fact: WWIV BBS is open source and can be compiled for any arch and has been ported to Linux.  You could easily run this on a RasPi Zero W.

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raisen wrote 05/22/2017 at 23:29 • point

Hey, what's the status of this project? I was too a BBS sysop myself and was interested to know.

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