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Welcome to the web page dedicated to the appropriately named Junkbox Bulletin Board (BBS) located in Perth, Western Australia. This BBS just keeps on chugging along whilst most of the other BBS's in Western Australia disappeared from the scene altogether.
Q: How do you connect to a Bulletin Board?
A: You use a "Terminal" program such as Hyperterminal (Win 95), Terminal (Win 3.1), Telix (DOS) or ZTerm (Mac) and direct dial the above telephone number with your modem. BBS's are text driven and very easy to use.
The
original objective of the Junkbox BBS was to construct a Public Access BBS from compu-junk that was considered to be obsolete and of no value to general industry. Surely this equipment could be put to a good use!
The Junkbox BBS was assembled from recycled compu-junk!
Needless to say, so far the BBS has not cost very much. The lack of expenditure means that we have virtually no overheads (apart from telephone line and electricity charges). This is the main reason that the system is available free to the public.
The file areas have increased in size over the last few years. More than 6.3 gig of free DOS, Win 3.1, OS/2, NT and Win95 files are now available for download. The latest antivirus updates and utilities are received regularly via the File Distribution Network (FDN). BBS users are welcome to download all the software they want.
When you dial up the BBS, you could connect to one of the following units:
MODEMS
BBS SOFTWARE
The Junkbox BBS is on line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for the Zone mail hour which is between 0100 and 0200 WAST when the system may be unavailable.
Background midi music is "War of the Worlds" by Jeff Wayne.
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