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- /* 82Dec07 CrT Substantial editing re V2 etc. */
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- Citadel
- Bulletin Board System
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- Citadel was written in mid-December 1981 by CrT.
- Miraculously, it ran three days unattended over
- New Year's, collecting some remarkably favorable reactions.
- During the months that it ran at 633-3282 (ODD-DATA),
- Citadel became one of the more popular BBs in town, and
- there was some disappointment when a hardware failure forced the system
- down in February of 1982. But in January CrT had published the
- source code in BDS C, putting it in the public domain.
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- David Mitchell brought up the next incarnation of the Citadel
- program in April of 1982, running on hardware provided by Richard
- Knox. Called the Island Communication System, it is located on
- Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. ICS has about 30 regular users
- and about 120 log entries. Newcomers find it easy to learn, and
- often leave messages praising it. Some of the system's daily
- users are in Boston.
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- Citadel is descended from DandD.pas, an adventure game editor/driver.
- It is arranged as a series of rooms, starting with the LOBBY. In each
- room the user can read existing messages and leave more.
- There may be up to 128 rooms in the current implementation.
- The system was brought up
- with only one room, the LOBBY. Additional rooms were created by
- the users, with room names appropriate to the topics covered.
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- This is being written (82Dec07) as the Version 2 beta-test goes out.
- Version 1 got a friendly reception and had relatively few bugs. We'll
- see if this is a trend or fluctuation...
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- Environment: Citadel has had a checkered past. It first ran
- on a 64K Heath H89 with Magnolia CP/M, Hayes Smartmodem (plus
- an acoustic on another port) and BDS C V1.32.
- Further development was done under BDS C 1.4x
- on a TRS-80 with Omikron CP/M, a Teletek FDC-1, and a Furgeson
- Big Board. At present the ICS implementation runs on the FDC-1,
- while development is done on the Big Board.
- Version 2 was tested on the original H89, now with dual 8" SSDD drives :-)
- and a printer, Magnolia CP/M V2.223 :-( , and BDS C 1.46.
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- Starting with the 82Jan posting on Seattle's MailBoard (thanks John!),
- various fragments of Version 1 seem to have percolated around the country.
- This version 2 release should supercede them and save people the frustration
- of trying to make sense out of them.
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- David Mitchell
- CrT
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- people for the interest expressed in the syst