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SiliconUnderground
■ UP reliability 97% · 57ms · checked
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- address
- siliconu.com
- listed by
- Massacre
- runs
- ProBoard · 10 nodes · Telnet
- where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- added by
- bbs hq on The Vortex, not yet verified as its sysop
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SiliconUnderground, located in Rochester, NY.
In the late eighties through the nineties the BBS ran using multiple BBS packages and was part of Fidonet and one of the co-founders of StormNet. I owned PCBoard and WildCat! commercial licensed versions but could never settle on one package. Alan Jurison was a co-author of T.A.G. and I started to use that as I had a local support base. I always saw Synchronet in Boardwatch and other magazines and really liked it. I had the demo but by the time I was going to switch and purchase it, I moved on and shut down the BBS.
For mail network software I used FrontDoor and that is still my favorite. Now I use InternetRex as my mailer and hope to switch to FrontDoor soon as Joaquim Homrigausen is “rebooting” it. I am waiting for native telnet and binkp support.
I purchased the rights and source code to ProBoard BBS and have been fixing issues and upgrading different parts.
You can connect to SiliconUnderground, the ProBoard WHQ by:
Telnet: siliconu.com
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answered 54 of 62 checks · reliability 97% · answered in 57ms last time
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