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Planet Maca's Opus started out as a dialup bbs system in the 1990's. At that time the bbs originally ran under Microware OS-9 Level II on a Tandy Color computer 3. During those years it was called The Pink Rose BBS. The bbs had moved several times over the years, in hardware and physical location.
In 1996 I upgraded to Slackware
linux. I wanted to again run a dialup bbs system that could also provide
free shell accounts. Opus 1.73a was not availabe for Linux. I ran Synchronet for Linux, and finally
migrated to Maximous
CBCS for Linux in 2004.
Planet Maca's Opus is named in honor of the book I wrote. The book
is now released under the GNU Public License and the PDF versions can be
found at
ftp://pinkrose.dhis.org/pub/macasworld/pdf
Today The computer you are getting these web pages from is still
working well. it is a Pentium 150 Socket 5 machine with 96MB of ram!
Running Slackware Linux version 8.0. This system was finally fully
Scsified early in 2006. The last IDE drive was removed and placed into
other machines. The New (actually old stock) Hard drive is a Seagate
SX4464524 which is a full height 40GB Wide Scsi hard drive. The orignal
ST15150N is still the main drive. (why not? it works!) It is controlled
by a AHA-2940UW controller Machine also has 2 CD drives, one is a Sony
Scsi CD-RW.
This computer is used for many tasks at the same time. here is a
short list:
If you are interested in obtaining a user account with shell access, have questions on this system or are having problems using the free nntp access you may Contact Me and I will see that you get what you want. Just email me and I will explain what I need from you to get a shell account started for you.
To use the free nntp server set your usenet newsgroup reader to use
the nntp server of pinkrose.dhis.org, no authentication or
username/password required. If you cannot post. email me your IP
address or hostname and I will add you to the /etc/news/nntp_access
file.
You can still access the bbs via dailup. the number is 860-379-2799
300-33800 BPS. Same number is used to access the dialup shell accounts
as well.
Contact Me
if you have problems with the dialup access of the bbs or accessing your
shell accounts.
Most of the time things go wonderful. But... This old workhorse needs to be overhauled!
Pinkrose can really use anything that you can provide from Pentium based computers, Machintosh G4s with Mac OSX to Uninteruptable Power Supplies, again Contact Me to arrange for delivery.
Being I don't charge a montly fee... I depend on donations to keep going.
You can access
From the Harpy's
Desk Newsletter/blog here
My Maca's World blog here
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