the official unofficial homepage for Bamidele O. Shangobunmi

Design History

"BOS Station One" BBS, 1994

After providing ANSI design services to a handful of bulletin boards and being the co-admin at two well-known ones, I decided to give the sysop (System Operator, fancy way of saying "owner") position a try, and built my own BBS based on the Renegade BBS system.

Station One ran off of my home PC, a rare 486DX50 with two 14.4k modems, one dedicated and one that was shared between dial-out and as a second line in. Naturally the ANSI pseudo-graphics were my own.

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	Main menu
	Portal to the message board/forum
	Shareware/freeware file downloads
	Yes, email existed even before the Internet age!
	Comm portal to both local and networked messaging services
	Downloads took a long time on 2.4-14.4kbps modems, so this interface allowed you to set up file batches
	n/a
	Polls & surveys
	Offline messaging interface to download all new message board posts & read offline; especially usefusl if the BBS was a toll call away!
	Full-screen banner ad!
	One of many logo variations; BOS = my initials
	This was actually the last frame of an intense 24k animated sequence