Like the BBS, this page is almost always under construction.
About The Dead Letter Department
The Dead Letter Department is a BBS, or Bulletin Board System setup by me, Craig Hutchison, for the public use of Amiga users.
The Dead Letter Department carries many informative mail areas, with the focus being on the Amiga computer. It also has a comprehensive range of new Public Domain and Shareware archives, sourced daily from Aminet.
I had, even after setting up The Dead Letter Department, been using my Amiga A1000 with a later model replacement motherboard, to access many of the Bulletin Boards in and around Melbourne. I was also "Pointing" from a BBS called "North West Amiga" and learning about Fidonet Network Technology.
When The Dead Letter Department came into existence, it was running on the A1000, but as my demands on the machine became greater, I found I was regularly running low on free memory. To alleviate the problem, I bought a secondhand A2000 and promptly went looking for an accelerator which would allow me to add more RAM to my configuration. To this end, I eventually purchased a Blizzard2060. This gave me the fastest available 680x0 processor and the ability to add upto 128Mb of (cheap) 32 pin SIMMS.
