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- Press Release - For Immediate Release March 3, 1993
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- Excalibur Communications, Inc.
- 4410 East 80th Place
- Tulsa, OK 74136
- Voice (918) 491-0033
- Fax and BBS (918) 496-8113
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- Excalibur Communications, Inc., announces the Next Generation
- Remote Bulletin Board Software System, Excalibur BBS.
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- Excalibur is the new remote bulletin board software system which
- runs entirely under Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows/NT. Excalibur BBS
- software is the first true 100% GUI (graphical user interface) and
- Multitasking BBS system available! Callers of Excalibur will be
- presented with full color graphical menus and icons which are entirely
- mouse selectable. Company president, Eric Weber states, "never before
- has there been a bulletin board system engineered with the features of
- Excalibur, by utilizing the Windows environment, we have created a BBS
- system which is 100% GUI and transfers binary color graphics screens
- and bitmap icons across the modems FASTER than conventional ANSI or
- ASCII screens. Also, the ability to multitask and do things such as read
- messages while downloading files is unprecedented".
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- Excalibur BBS features include full multitasking abilities and graphics
- capabilities never before available in a BBS software package. Examples
- of Excalibur's powerful features include: downloading files while still
- maintaining the ability to continue browsing the file directories and
- adding more files to the download queue, reading messages or participating
- in group chat with other users! All while you are downloading files!!
- Excalibur BBS even allows you a thumbnail preview of all images BEFORE you
- actually download a file. What's more, Excalibur BBS allows you actually
- view the image while it is being downloaded to you.
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- Powerful Feature Set
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- 100% graphical and mouse driven interface!
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- View image files they are being downloaded to you!
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- Scaleable graphic screens which scale to match the callers
- screen resolutions!
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- Auto New User Registration
- Excalibur is smart, it knows whether you are a completely new
- user or a previously registered user. Excalibur automatically
- "grabs" the new user information it needs, such as name,
- handle, password, telephone number and address..all without any
- user intervention!
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- 100% Error Free Modem Transmission
- Excalibur contains proprietary software error correction ensuring
- non-error correcting modems 100% noise free transmissions.
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- Visual Graphic Browser (built-in photographic imaging support)
- Rather than looking at misleading file descriptions, Excalibur
- allow callers to actually browse "thumbnails" or "stamp views"
- of all GIF graphic files in the file database.. All while on-line!
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- Complete Audit Trail of User Activities
- Excalibur maintains a complete accounting of all user
- transactions. This "caller log" can be view or parsed for
- invalid login attempts or other activities.
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- File Database File-Scroll
- Not your standard "Dumb" Scrollback Buffer; Excalibur BBS
- allows you to scroll back file directories and actually mark
- files for downloading or "read" the extended file information
- just as if it had never passed. Imagine never having to relist
- a file directory!!
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- File attachments in Messages
- Attach files for downloading into your private email messages.
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- Group Chat
- Chat with other users or friends on other nodes
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- Paradox Database Handling
- Excalibur uses the robust Paradox Engine for Windows for all
- user, file and message base handling thus allowing third party
- utilities to be written in bonafide industry standard databases
- like Borland's Paradox for Windows or Microsoft Access.
- No more proprietary database formats like other BBS software packages use!
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- Multi-user Made Easy
- For cost effective multi-user solutions you can connect up to
- eight external modems via an octopus cable to a SINGLE 486 or
- Pentium (586) computer system.
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- Guaranteed Multi-user File Handling
- Because data is maintained by Borland's Paradox Engine, you are
- ensured complete file and record locking on large multi-user
- Excalibur network installations. Paradox data management is
- trusted by many of the largest corporations throughout the world!
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- Excalibur has 3 methods of subscription support
- A) File Cost System - Enter an initial credit amount into the
- user record. Each file for downloading is assigned a cost or
- price, when user download that file the user account is debited
- that amount.
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- B) Byte Ratio - Define a byte or file ratio, such as a 10:1
- ratio. A 10:1 ratio would allow the user to download only 10
- files for every 1 file uploaded.
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- C) Calendar Period - Define any time period to allow the user
- access to the system, i.e., a 6 month subscription would allow
- the user full access for 6 months then reduce the access once
- the 6 month period has expired.
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- Powerful Sysop Utilities Included
- Excalibur includes a powerful maintenance and setup program.
- For example, the sysop can move files from the Uploads
- Directory into the Games Directory by simply "Dragging and
- Dropping" the files into the desired directory. Other features
- include the ability to embed GIF (89a) comments into GIF
- files, add extended file descriptions of any length which can
- be viewed and scrolled by the BBS user and much more. Also
- include are robust user and message database editors featuring
- drag and drop maintenance capabilities.
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- Excalibur Communications, Inc. is a privately held corporation
- located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ECI specializes in the integration
- of communications with computer graphics imaging. For further
- information or to order Excalibur contact Eric Weber at (918)
- 496-7881
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