Enterprise first came online in mid 1987 in Palmdale, California. The System consisted of a 64c, (2) 1581 disk drives, A highly modified version of Ed Parry's, EBBS. at the blazing speed of a 1200 BPS. In late 1990 the board was passed off to a co-sysop, HDCOMM. If you're out there HD, drop a line. I don't know how long the board lasted under the Captaincy of HDCOMM.
Fast forward 30 years
Around late 2019, I found a Commodore 64 and 1541 drive at a yard sale. Didn't know if it worked, but bought it for nostalgic reasons. Fired it up and low and behold it worked. Again started my love of the Commodore and started buying up more gear, and quickly realized that Commodore still had a large following. So many new devices to keep our Commies going and going.
So, I decided to put Enterprise back up!
Currently Enterprise is running on:
- 64C in a painted VIC20 Breadbin case
- Internal Heat sinks and Fan
- Updated 12v Regulator, runs cooler
- Reset Switch
- JiffyDOS, with Custom "Enterprise" headers
- IRQ Activity light (Gives it
more horsepower)
- 1541PiHat, running in 1581 mode for all files
- SD2IEC serving as UL/DL storage
- Color64BBS V8.1
- All tied into Older laptop running Win7, and BBS Server
- Of course the 3ft long Polar
Lights Enterprise model as a Mascot.
I couldn't begin to torture myself enough, so...
I decided I'd enter the Mirror
Universe and Start a BBS called "The
Terran Empire". If you're a fan, you know
what this is. So, I can't get enough of
tinkering with machines and decided to put one of 4
Raspberry Pi's to work. Well, not
only does the Pi4 run Terran Empire, it also hosts this
lovely website.
Terran Empire is running on:
- Raspberry Pi4, in a Pi
Cluster, because.. why not?
- 8Gb Memory
- 500mb external disk
- Mystic BBS Software
- Enterprise WebSite also runs on this cluster, created with Blue Griffon on Linux Mint.
