keirFox on Nostr: I seek information from fellow graybeards! Old BBS nerds -- I seek your help! I'm ...
I seek information from fellow graybeards!
Old BBS nerds -- I seek your help! I'm looking for information on a DOS app I used to dial out to BBSes in the 90s called "Terminate" written by Bo Bendtsen. Before that I had been using Procomm Plus which did the job, but on installing a copy of Terminate my teenage mind was blown: the program asked "Hello, Keir, do you like intelligent programs?" It had picked up my name from an install of Front Door. The application was *really smart*. During setup you supplied a password to lock certain parts of the app down, etc.
Anyway, the program's functions were handled through the function keys and you could use those to switch between different utilities such as the terminal, phonebook, etc. One of them, though, was curious: on entering that screen, the text scrolled slowly and simply prompted "LOGON:" and waited...
Old BBS nerds -- I seek your help! I'm looking for information on a DOS app I used to dial out to BBSes in the 90s called "Terminate" written by Bo Bendtsen. Before that I had been using Procomm Plus which did the job, but on installing a copy of Terminate my teenage mind was blown: the program asked "Hello, Keir, do you like intelligent programs?" It had picked up my name from an install of Front Door. The application was *really smart*. During setup you supplied a password to lock certain parts of the app down, etc.
Anyway, the program's functions were handled through the function keys and you could use those to switch between different utilities such as the terminal, phonebook, etc. One of them, though, was curious: on entering that screen, the text scrolled slowly and simply prompted "LOGON:" and waited...