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Aug 01Bulletin Board Construction Set is released
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
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Aug 01
Atari Corp BBS goes online
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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Aug 01
XMODEM is Released
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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Aug 01
Over 2,000 BBSs in August 1986
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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Aug 01
MPP Reorganizes as Supra Corp
This month in 1985, Microbits Peripheral Products (MPP), was purchased by Supra Corporation. MPP was the maker of the popular MPP1000C and MPP1000E 300 baud modems that plugged into the Atari 8 bit's joystick port. Supra would rebrand the MPP1000E modem as the Supra 300AT modem (see image below). (source: September 1985 issue of the Portland Atari Club Newsletter, page 5. This was a reprint of an
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Aug 25
Quill BBS Software Announced
Quill, a new BBS software written in Action!, is announced at TARICON '84 in Detroit, Michigan (source: ROM Magazine v1i8 page 6).
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Sep 02
FoReM XE BBS is released
On this day, September 2nd, in 1985, FoReM XE BBS software is released. FoReM XE, developed by Matthew Singer, is an Atari 8-bit BBS written in the BASIC XE programming language. Previous versions of FoReM were written in BASIC XL and Atari Basic (see the Atari Frequently Asked Questions by Michael Current for a list of versions). FoReM XE is in the public domain. One of its noteworthy features i
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