Oh the memories. I ran a Telegard BBS back in 1989-91 called "Circle of One". I still have it backed up though I would probably have to find some old hardware to run it on. It ran on a 20Mhz 286 at the time with 2 Meg RAM and a couple of MFM 40 Meg hard drives. Hail to the 16bit analog modem power!
Oi, just had a flashback of editing ANSI animated graphics. Your 'frame rate' depended on your modem speed.