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Holding the bag: the .BAG UUCP file format

Posted in retro, Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2025

I’ve been happily nerding out with vintage bulletin board system (BBS) software and UUCP for a while. Something I kept seeing in documentation was mention of the “.BAG format” or “UUCP BAG format” used by satellite providers when delivering Usenet feeds over satellite. I got curious about what exactly were these files and what did […]

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Dial-up UUCP to get email to a vintage DOS BBS

Posted in Uncategorized, vintage on Nov 16th, 2023

This year’s project has been running a vintage DOS-based bulletin board system like I use to run in 1995 before I started my ISP. I’m running Wildcat! 4.20 Multiline 10, the same as I did back then, except now under Windows 7 32-bit instead of Windows 95. It has real US Robotics Courier modems that […]

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