2007 - We upgraded to a P3-650, 512MB RAM, and a 20GB HD. We also moved to Debian Linux as the OS for the BBS. The reason I went with Major BBS originally was twofold. I won a free copy of a two line license for Major, also I was the most familier with Major BBS as I spent a lot of time on them. My third BBS, that I can remember spending any time on, was a Major BBS called Infinity BBS, which was run by a local computer company.
So I set up Haven BBS under the Major BBS Software. It ran from Late September/Early October 1992 to February 1993. In December I decided to switch software. I was trying different ones out to see if I liked them. I figured out that what I really wanted Haven to be was a message board. I picked Zinfandel, which was a Citadel clone. Its main feature is messaging. I ran Zinfandel from February 1993 to October 1996. Zinfandel was written By Jason Massey, from code that Hue Jr. had released. Zinfandel had a lot of cosmetic changes as far as I can tell, and maybe some cleaning up of the code. We (ChuckE, WindowLover, and myself) wanted to get the source code to keep maintaining and adding to it. Jason decided he wanted to sell the source code to us for $150.00. Please note this is not a lot of money, but we could get the more updated Citadel-86 code for free and work with it instead. In fact I did download it soon there after.
In October 1996 I switched again, this time to Citadel-86, which was where Zinfandel had come from. Citadel-86 was still being updated, where as Zinfandel was not. So I changed software and restarted all the message bases. I added in a few door games, and people were only playing one of the games. So I took the others offline. We were once again hooked up to the rest of the Citadel International network. Citadel86 served our purposes, it allowed me to get back in touch with the rest of the Citadel Network and would allow me to run door games. Files were still a weak spot, but that was fine as I was running this off a 386DX20, with 4MB of RAM and a 130MB HD.
December 1st 1998, we moved to the Citadel/UX network and got a partime Internet connection. We were generally connected to the Internet from 10:00 P.M. (Indiana Time) to 5:00 A.M. (Indiana time), now we are connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We are working on adding things as we get time and figure out how they work. At that time we were running off a Dell desktop. We are running Linux, on a Pentium Pro 200, 64MB of RAM, 6GB in HD, and a U.S. Robotics Courier V.Everything modem for dial in. We also have it on a UPS.
December 13th 1999, we added a full time Internet connection.
March 1st 2000 we upgraded to Citadel/UX 5.62, and WebCit 2.11.
March 5th 2000, We moved to a new machine, new location, and a better internet connection.
2007 - We upgraded to a P3-650, 512MB RAM, and a 20GB HD. We also moved to Debian Linux as the OS for the BBS.