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Skriven 2006-10-20 13:14:15 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 41601 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
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19 Oct 06 14:22, Jeff Smith wrote to Roy Witt:

 ST>>>>>>  It's Wildcat Winserver --  and it's listed in the Snooze as
 ST>>>>>> being a valid and recognizable BBS package.
 MvdV>>>>> Opininons expressed are the opinion of the writer and the
 MvdV>>>>> writer only.
 RW>>>> Wildcat Winserver was developed by (forget his first name)
 RW>>>> Santos, for Fidonet as a BBS package. Besides two net
 RW>>>> nodenumbers, he and his wife Andrea had a listing among the
 RW>>>> other software help nodes at the head of the Z1 nodelist. Help
 RW>>>> for such Fidonet software as Frontdoor, etc ...
 RW>>>>                R\%/itt
 JS>>>     Me thinks you mean Hector Santos?
 RW>> That's him.
 JS>>> Years ago Wildcat BBS software was owned by Jim Harrer president
 JS>>> and CEO of Mustang Software. Due to a shifting BBS climate
 JS>>> Mustang Software sold all rights and ownership of Wildcat BBS to
 JS>>> Santronics Software Inc in November of 1998.
 RW>> I don't remember the exact sale date, but I think Wildcat 5.x was
 RW>> the last version under Mustang Software.

 JS>      Wildcat 5 was released to manufacturing on March 12th, 1996 and
 JS> shipped to distributers about three weeks later.

So, you're saying that you have a history file on Wildcat Software.

 JS>>> As I recall Wildcat5 was the current release at the time and soon
 JS>>> became Winserver.
 RW>> Still while being owned by Mustang...
 JS>      Ahh... Yup.
 JS>>>     Wildcat BBS was my first store bought BBS software in the
 JS>>> early 90's. I think the version was DOS based Wildcat 2 or so.
 JS>>> Although I had run various shareware BBS's prior to that.
 RW>> I tried some of those shareware BBS packages and found them wanting
 RW>> in many respects. I finally bit the bullet and bought Wildcat BBS
 RW>> and kept it up to date until I took down my BBS in 92. I was at v3.9
 RW>> and should have updated it one more time to v4.0 when it was
 RW>> offered. V4.0 was the first windows compatable version.

 JS>      I have (Around here somewhere) Wildcat 4.2 which is the last dos
 JS> version that I ran before getting Wildcat 5. I did run RA
 JS> (RemoteAccess) for awhile too during that period. Never cared for the
 JS> Hudson message base though. Was glad when JAM was supported.
 JS>      Yes.... The good ole days. <g>

I'm glad I never got WC3.9 to work with Fidonet messaging back then.
Keeping a BBS was beginning to affect my working hours and I was
self-employed. That's why it went down when it did and I accessed Fidonet
via someone else's WC BBS from home.

               R\%/itt




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