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-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to NANCY BACKUS on 22-Apr-2015 09:03 <=-

 NB>A few days before I left on my trip, the bbs I
 NB>send DADS and ASIAN_LINK messages from went down inexplicably, and
 NB>wasn't back up until I got back from my trip.  I sent the reply packet
 NB>I'd prepared over the few days before leaving finally AFTER I got
 NB>back... ;)  Turned out he'd had a massive crash... thankfully he's back
 NB>up and running well again.  :)

 DS> The Sysops worst nightmare...a massive system crash. :( Been there,
 DS> done that...which reminds me...I need to make another data backup. :P

Always good to be backed up... ;)   Never know when you might need it...
 
 DS> I got my start in BBSing on one that was run by the Computer Science
 DS> Department at the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock. That's where
 DS> I first met Janice Harvey...who would become my wife many years later.
 DS> If that BBS is still in existence, it's for the computer science users
 DS> now. As best as I can tell, my BBS is the only one left in Arkansas.

At least the only one in the Fido nodelist...

 DS> I thought I had a file on the BBS with the program that I ran "The
 DS> World's Smallest BBS" on my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 laptop, but
 DS> could not locate it this morning. I guess I have to dig into an older
 DS> backup to find it...or I might be able to Google it.

There may have been others equally small, in similar setups...  ;)
 
 NB>We get that, too... nothing but rain in the forecast, but look out the
 NB>window and there's sun and maybe some clouds...  ;)

 DS> I wish that was Arkansas' weather...but we're in the midst of our
 DS> spring Tornado Season now, and the BBS ends up being offline more than
 DS> online, to protect from lightning damage.

We get the rain, too...  but things are a lot more variable than the
forecast often indicates...  I'm glad we aren't often hit by tornados,
though... 
 
ttyl        neb

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