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01 August 2024
This event begins 08/01/2019 and repeats every year forever
In August 1977, Ward Christensen, with input from other users of the CP/M operating system, writes XMODEM, the first binary file transfer protocol.
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01 August 2024
This event begins 08/01/2019 and repeats every year forever
Bulletin Board Construction Set (BBCS) was first announced/reviewed in the August 1985 issue of Antic (Volume 4 Number 4 page 41). Antic also announced in this issue that it would sell BBCS through its Antic Arcade catalog. BBCS is a BBS program written in 100% machine language by Scott Brause of the Jersey Atari Computer Group. BBCS allowed the SysOp to customize the BBS through easy to use menus. Before BBCS, most BBS programs could only be customized by modifying their source code (most BBSs were written in BASIC at the time). See also the BBCS entry in the BBS Documentary archive.
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01 August 2024
This event begins 08/01/2019 and repeats every year forever
In August, 1985 Atari Corp began operating a BBS. The BBS began on two Atari 800 computers and a Corvus hard disk, running the Nite Light BBS Software. By February, 1987 the BBS had 5 phone lines each connected to an Atari ST. Also in February, 1987 the Atari BBS was averaging 12,000 monthly calls (source: February 1987 issue of Antic Magazine - Volume 5, Number 10 page 52).
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01 August 2024
This event begins 08/01/2020 and repeats every year forever
In August, 1986 there were over 2,000 Bulletin Board Systems in the United States (Source: August 1986, Volume 5 Number 10, issue of Antic magazine; page 15).
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