hi-BBS is about to become part of your daily business in many fascinating ways. As an online information system, hi-BBS gives you a direct line with your customers, mobile salespersons, and colleagues.
You can use hi-BBS to offer online support, organize and conduct live meetings, send and receive electronic mail from anywhere around the globe, and inform subscribers about your products, policies and pricing. One single system can now replace your E-Mail, Workgroup and File transfer applications. The integration of these tasks will save you time and money, decreasing the learning curve and greatly enhancing productivity.
Best of all, hi-BBS has been designed to let you tap into these powerful capabilities without the need for a computer science degree! hi-BBS is completely graphical in design, from the Client application to the Manager, and based on things you already know, such as copying, renaming, moving files and folders. In fact, installing a complete CD or part of it on your BBS, takes less than one minute of your time! And you can attach comments to any files, folders and volumes...
Those who upgrade to hi-BBS from other systems, will be glad to know that hi-BBS is also fully compatible with file descriptions found on TeleFinder‚Ñ¢ and FirstClass‚Ñ¢ systems. This could save you hours and hours of time needed to re-enter those comments!
hi-BBS Client needs only 1Mb of memory and can be run on any Macintosh computer. Using the Comm Toolbox, the application can run with almost any type of modems. The modular approach provided by the CTB is very powerful; your hi-BBS User application can use X.25, ISDN, X.21 Connection Tools to connect directly to a host. For example, multiple simultaneous users on an AppleTalk compatible network (EtherTalk, TokenTalk, LocalTalk) could be accessing the hi-BBS server on the other side of the country using a direct connection on X.25, X.21 or ISDN. With hi-BBS, users can connect transparently by modem or through the LAN, using the same application.
The heavy use of System 7 features, such as Apple® Events and aliases, and a full object-oriented approach, provide the path to an easy evolution. hi-BBS is ready for the more powerful architectures to come from Apple® Computer in the future.
hi-BBS will be your door to worldwide communications today and for years to come.
