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Stray Pointers

Apr 4, 2025

Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear.

Rob's telnet BBS's are as follows:

Southernamis.ddns.net:23 
This BBS runs in the AWS cloud 24/7 on Atari 130XE, 850 interfaces at a lightning speed of 9600...


Feb 2, 2025

This is a video-added re-release of my interview with Rob Swindell. Rob is the author and sysop of the MS-DOS and telnet versions of the Synchronet BBS.  He joined the show to discuss the genesis of the BBS, running his own BBS company, and the journey to an open source Internet version of Synchronet.


Rob's main site...