Alting har en begyndelse. Gud skabte verden, Kaos som var før, det var os IT folk, som stod for det.
Jeg har rodet i en masse gamle ting og fundet en stor bunke postkort som er 30 år gammel:
Postcard-ware
Vi var nogle gutter som med vores PC'er og modems på 1200 Baud "snakkede" sammen.
BBS'er som det hed. Dengang var internettet
Bemærk hardware/software kravene. Hvis du ikke er inden i IT verden, så kan jeg oplyse at et normalt digital foto ( kun 1) fyldere mere end den plads som skulle bruges. :-)
Flot Ansi grafik
Portal of Power v0.60â
Manual assembled by Soren Ager, 2:231/12
Portal of Power Documentation
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1. Introduction
Thanks for trying Portal of Power (from now on called Portal).
1.1. Features
Portal is a FidoNet compatible mailer with some unique features:
* BBS filelist generator (Maximus, Opus 1.14 & 1.70+, QuickBBS,
Remote Access, SuperBBS)
* TICK processor
* Nodelist Compiler/Updater (Version 6, QuickBBS, SuperBBS, Remote
Access)
* BBS file Area Manager (Maximus, Opus 1.14 ,QuickBBS, Remote
Access, SuperBBS)
* BBS User browser (Maximus, QuickBBS, Remote Access, SuperBBS)
* Multitasker aware (OS/2, Windows and DesqView)
* Keyboard macros
* Fileforwarder
* Dumb Terminal with internal and external protocols
* Nodelist manager
* 4D point support (Binkley style)
* Forwarding of Netmail/Files to your points
* Outbound manager
* Complete menu driven configuration
* Connect/Usage statistics
* Support for exit on various modem connects (e.g. CONNECT FAX)
* Call of external message editor
* 20 user defined "exit with errorlevel" function keys
* Keyboard locking with password
* Multiline aware (up to 255 lines), with file locking
* Text file editor (up to 65000 bytes)
* PortalFix - like TickFix, AreaFix, AllFix etc.
* Function Requests - control Portal from remote
* Security system, with level and keys (for tick areas, file for-
ward, file requests etc.)
* Uses all kind of memory (Conventional, UMB, XMS, EMS)
* Nodes setup (phone, passwords, opening hours, special dial
strings, level and keys etc.)
* Supports any number of lines on the screen.
* Archiver setup - for Nodelist packing/unpacking, TICK packing.
Supports ARC, ARJ, LZH, PAK, ZIP and SQZ
* Context sensitive on-line help
* EMSI handshake
* Janus and BiMail fullduplex transfer protocols.
* Only costs 5 postcards and stamps for non commercial users!
1.2. System requirements
To run Portal of Power the at least the following equipment is re-
quired (Although this do not guarantee that Portal runs on your
system, even if you have that equipment!):
- MS-DOS 3.1 or newer
- 450 KB free memory
- 2 MB free harddisk space
- 8088 or newer processor
- A modem & a phone line
- A fossil driver
1.3. The Portal Team
The Portal Team is:
- Soren Ager, Hojvang 8, 6600 Vejen, Denmark, 2:231/12
- Dan Wulff, Skyttevej 3, 7000 Fredericia, Denmark, 2:230/57
- Thorbjorn Stegelmann, Agtrupvej 29, 6000 Kolding, Denmark, 2:230/62
In the beginning there was Binkley..... But that was not enough - and
at some point, a little over 3 years ago, the first 3 of The Portal
Team (SA, TS, DW) met for the first time.... Soon things started to
get out of hand, and some wild ideas emerged and Portal of Power
v0.01á1 was born. But that was (to say it mildly) not a very stable
product, but luckily our beta testers had fate in us (God knows why?)
and little after little it became more stable and a lot of new featu-
res was implemented. Then one of our beta testers volunteered to write
a BBS file lister, as a plug-in unit - and then The Portal Team got
it's fourth member (JS), but that didn't stop him, he later wrote the
User Browser too.
As you probably can see from the above the development of Portal has
been great fun, even at the current cost of software, fast food,
a.s.o.
1.4. Thanks to
The Portal Team would like to thank the following:
* Out beta testers for their courage and good ideas.
* Borland for making Turbo/Borland Pascal - the greatest programming
language for the IBM PC and compatibles.
* Turbo Power Software for Turbo Professional and Object Profes-
sional - they have saved us a lot of work!
* The Binkley Trio for making the source for BinkleyTerm available
(so we could see how things can be done).
* Ping Hansen for his Ansi and Avatar units.
* Mike Hartmann for most of the text about "How Portal handles mail"
All names are trademarks of their respective holders (none mentioned -
none forgotten...)
