| 20th Apr 1997 Tempest will close on the 30th of April. See here for the announcement. Anyone who has an account on the server should log on before this date if they want to make sure they don't lose mail due when this happens. |
Tempest is a small public BBS, based in Wanchai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Established in 1992 to serve Mac users and students in Hong Kong, it has since grown to offer access to Windows as well as Mac callers, at speed of up to 28.8 kbps using V.FastClass technology.
Via external gateways Tempest has connections to other FirstClass boards in Hong Kong and overseas, as well as millions of computer users on the global Internet.
Tempest has over 100 message areas, covering topics from religion to networking to games, most of which are linked to other local BBSes or to the worldwide Internet. It has extensive file libraries of almost 2GB of Macintosh freeware, shareware and demos, spread over three CD-ROMs and 500MB of hard disk space. It also runs an online database of all public FirstClass systems worldwide.
Tempest can be reached on Hong Kong 2816 7734
(note this is a new number from June 14th 1995). All Tempest users can be
e-mailed from the internet at tempest.net.hk. Thw administrator John
Blackburne can be reached as johnb,
while general enquiries should be sent to the
To connect to Tempest you must be using FirstClass Client
software, versions of which are available for the Macintosh and for
Windows. Click here
to download the Macintosh version from Hong Kong Supernet's ftp server.
Other FirstClass BBSes in Hong Kong include the BBS of the Hong Kong Mac Users Group,
on 27622166, and Chain, on 28829028.
Tempest Users
note: all the following pages were creted by the users themselves while they
were loggged on to the BBSes. They are listed in order of creation for each board
John W. Blackburne
ANTONIO M.L. INACIO
Solon K.C. Wong
Jeevan DMello
John's Home Page