Posted in vintage on Jun 8th, 2026
I’ve written about UUCP a few times and may have mentioned UUCP books but I don’t think I’ve actually explained the differences in what’s out there from O’Reilly and Associates. Dated technology calls for dated books! Most of the “modern” UUCP how-to guides found online are short, expect to be using UUCP over TCP/SSH, and […]
Posted in retro, Uncategorized on Mar 14th, 2025
I’ve been happily nerding out with vintage bulletin board system (BBS) software and UUCP to send/receive e-mail and newsgroups for a while. Something I kept seeing in BBS 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 […]
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 […]
