Talk: How Sascha P kept a BBS legend from the trash, revived it, and became a dial‑up sysop in 2023.

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The TECS was one of the largest and most popular BBS in Germany. But it was on the verge of ending up completely in the trash. This is the story of how Hamburg-based Sascha P not only saved all the hardware and software of the BBS, but also hacked his way into the setup and actually managed to bring everything back online - and became a dial‑up BBS sysop in 2023.

Plus a spin‑off about the almost equally old Commodore‑64 BBS Snobsoft and its literally wild connection to the Tornado Mailbox - the name TECS had back in the 1980s. Mailbox is the German term for a BBS.

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Apparently, there are some current issues with the specific ISDN modems we used in Germany back then, especially with the TECS dial‑up systems.

If anyone wants to explore another dinosaur-era BBS for a while, try this one:

(for example, when dialing from the USA)

Snobsoft - Tel: 011 49 40 60943485 - 300 baud, 7N1

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