I don't know if you've read the Armageddon BBS home page yet, but one thing I mention in there is the "fabulous" speed I acquired back in the modem BBSing days. I started out with a borrowed 300 - 1200 baud Apple modem.
The neat thing is, with the introduction of telnet capabilties in BBS software -- such as in what I use, Hermes II -- we can still enjoy the "good old days" of BBSing without the snail-paced speeds of old modems.
To add to that, with emulators such as Basilisk II and SheepShaver -- I have both set up -- which emulate the Mac Classic environment, you can run your Old School BBS on the latest Macintosh computers, as I do, and it runs very fast. It's very nice indeed.
