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Skriven 2006-10-21 14:04:30 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 41692 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
Ärende: Wildcat                             was: DUD-file
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20 Oct 06 16:40, 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
 JS>>>>> president and CEO of Mustang Software. Due to a shifting BBS
 JS>>>>> climate Mustang Software sold all rights and ownership of
 JS>>>>> Wildcat BBS to Santronics Software Inc in November of 1998.
 RW>>>> I don't remember the exact sale date, but I think Wildcat 5.x
 RW>>>> was the last version under Mustang Software.
 JS>>>      Wildcat 5 was released to manufacturing on March 12th, 1996
 JS>>> and shipped to distributers about three weeks later.
 RW>> So, you're saying that you have a history file on Wildcat Software.
 JS>      Most of the information I recalled from past dealings with
 JS> Mustang and then with Santronics. Did look up that dates though.
 JS> Remembering dates was never one of my strong points.

I knew that.

 JS>>>>> As I recall Wildcat5 was the current release at the time and
 JS>>>>> soon 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
 RW>>>> wanting in many respects. I finally bit the bullet and bought
 RW>>>> Wildcat BBS and kept it up to date until I took down my BBS in
 RW>>>> 92. I was at v3.9 and should have updated it one more time to
 RW>>>> v4.0 when it was offered. V4.0 was the first windows compatable
 RW>>>> version.
 JS>>>      I have (Around here somewhere) Wildcat 4.2 which is the last
 JS>>> dos version that I ran before getting Wildcat 5. I did run RA
 JS>>> (RemoteAccess) for awhile too during that period. Never cared for
 JS>>> the Hudson message base though. Was glad when JAM was supported.
 JS>>>      Yes.... The good ole days. <g>
 RW>> I'm glad I never got WC3.9 to work with Fidonet messaging back then.
 RW>> Keeping a BBS was beginning to affect my working hours and I was
 RW>> self-employed. That's why it went down when it did and I accessed
 RW>> Fidonet via someone else's WC BBS from home.

 JS>      I ran Wildcat prior to joining Fidonet. At one time I had five
 JS> POTS lines for BBS use. That was when BBS's were a tad more popular.
 JS> <g> In fact I remember several other local (To me) BBS's that had 12+
 JS> POTS lines installed for their BBS's. All are now history.

Yes, there were those mulit-line BBSs in San Diego too. There's a small
magazine still printed that used to have 3 pages of BBSs listed. It was
called ComputerEdge and is now printed in the Denver area as well. Always
a great source of information on the latest in computers, PCs, Macs and
back then, some of the others like Texas Instruments. San Diego had so
manyu computer stores, the competition drove the prices of computers to
minimal prices. Anyway, I still have around  here somewhere, ComputerEdge
Vol 1, Issue 1 ... I used it to dial into SD from Poway (LD) with a 300
baud modem to the BBSs listed in that magazine. This was B4F, Before
Fidonet existed, c1981-2.

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