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KB2VXA > TECH 19.07.16 10:42l 49 Lines 2147 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 21592_VK6ZRT
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: KF5JRV > First Dial Up CBBS
Path: IW8PGT<CX2SA<7M3TJZ<JE7YGF<XE1FH<VK6ZRT
Sent: 160719/0925Z @:VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC #:21592 [Boyanup] $:21592_VK6ZRT
From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : TECH@WW
Hi all of you land line lids (;->),
The first and the last of the dial up BBSes, the last being owned by Larry
N2HGY a very good long time friend since we were teenagers, now old farts. It
was located in Edison, NJ, a local call for me that didn't cost money, I
never spent money on a dial up BBS. Of course there were others in my local
calling area, they were everywhere and a few had toll free 800 WATS numbers,
a really great one was in California the land of fruits and nuts. Hey, that's
what made it great, "The program had many forward thinking ideas..." Not the
program actually, California must be the most progressive state in the nation
with many forward thinking ideas. And to think I did it all with my Mighty
486 I built from junk box parts and an external AT&T 14.4kb/s modem running
Mode M, modem.
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| 88b " 888 d88 dPY8b 88Y8b,8888 |
| `"Y8888a 888ad8P'dPaaY8b 88 Y88P888 |
| a Y88 888 dP Y8b 88 YP 888 |
| `"8ad8P'a888a a88a;*a888aa88a a888a |
| ;*;;;;*;;;*;;;*,, |
| _,---'':::';*;;;*;;;*;;*d;, |
| .-' ::::::::::';*;;*;dII; |
| .' ,<<<,. :::::::::::::::ffffff`. |
| / ,<<<<<<<<,::::::::::::::::fffffI,\ |
| .,<<<<<<<<<<I;:::::::::::::::ffffKIP", |
| |<<<<<<<<<<dP;,?>;,::::::::::fffKKIP | |
| ``<<<<<<<dP;;;;;\>>>>>;,::::fffKKIPf ' |
| \ `mYMMV?;;;;;;;\>>>>>>>>>,YIIPP"` / |
| `. "":;;;;;;;;;i>>>>>>>>>>>>>, ,' |
| `-._``":;;;sP'`"?>>>>>=========. |
| --..._______...|<[Hormel | |
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Then along came the Internet and e-mail, THIS is what we get out of it!
"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
Message timed by NIST: 19-Jul-2016 at 09:26 GMT
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