Alba Maximus

Many of you will be wondering where the name Alba Maximus came from and why that name?

Alba is Scottish Galic for Scotland and Maximus is Latin for Greatest.

Well, a few years ago in the mid to late 1980s there was no such thing as the internet, there was however a thing called a bulletin board system or BBS, this was basically a phone system using old style modems that connected to each other. I advise you to go look this stuff up it is interesting history, it took a week of two to send and receive a message to the likes of Australia, my state-of-the-art modem in 1991 was a 28.8k. The BBS I used was called Alba Maximus and was run from a private house in Neilston, Scotland by a guy called Donald. In the years I used this system I never personally ever met Donald or got the chance to really know him and this adoption of his BBS name is a wee tribute to him and his contribution to computer history.

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