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Subj : Synchronet bbs questions on old hardware
To : All
From : Booper
Date : Tue Jan 27 2026 03:55 pm
Greetings. Been messing with synchronet off and on for quite a while now. I had a system running back at my highschool in 2008, as a quick way to get around the facebook and myspace chack blocks on the firewall. I miss having so many people online like i did with that system.
Fast forward to today, i have a lot of spare hardware from my job at a surplus electronics relale and scrap place.
Looking to run synchronet on old hardware. Sucessfully got a slightly older version running on windows server 2003 on a dual pentium 3 single board rackmount box. All is working well there.
I am trying to get a older system, a pentium or pentium pro based system on windows nt or windows 2000 going. Looks like support for the older windows was dropped long ago. Tried the oldest download from sourceforge, 316, but that still will now work on win 2000.
Looking to see if anyone here has a suggestion or can point me in the directon of a older version that will run on windows 2000.
I realize that getting a minimal version of linux running on the pentium may be the best path foreward on this issue, but do not want to loose access to the windows based sysop gui.
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