lol I'm not going to use any of it tongue emoticon yeah the
   pyroto mountain system is strange - it kicked you off after
   registering + tells you to wait an hour but really, you can
   login again and start it.

   A friend who begged me ALL through the 90s to bring Pyroto
   Mountain back (I found a reference in a different BBS I was
   running in 1997 where he asked me) - got me to do it. I mean, I
   promised him I would... 18 years ago.

   Anyway, he spent a few hours on it having a good time. I got to
   be a Timelord tongue emoticon

   I may end up using NETFOSS and doing a 'real' system - one
   that's at usable speeds but I love that at least, in concept -
   it's *possible* to go ALL THE WAY back in time to 1990 with no
   problem. [I might even shoot for a CP/M BBS... although I never
   learned CP/M) - just to go further back.*Two weeks ago, I
   figured out how to toss a full-feed Wordpress into NNTP and then
   did my Facebook.. so I could use ALPINE to read my email and see
   all my notifications in a retro style. [used it for a few days,
   got bored, but proof of concept is all I wanted]
   Thanks man smile emoticon There's still C64 BBS' online - and I
   found a BBS list for July 15 and there's over 300 online on that
   list that are working, with about 2 dozen new ones. There's so
   much available in abandonware - I got Microsoft Bob last week
   and FINALLY saw it for myself.