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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Nick Andre
from: Dan Clough
date: 2022-06-03 18:32:00
subject: Re: BBS`ing

-=> Nick Andre wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> I lived in the Chicago-land area back then, so there were quite a few
 DC> boards around.  I'd say PCB was certainly not the majority of them, but
 DC> the ones that were seemed much "nicer" than most of the rest.  Maybe
 DC> "more professional" looking is the right term.  So that's what I ran
 DC> then, and liked it a lot.  Also registered InterMail and InterEcho for
 DC> mail stuff, worked well also.  As I recall the USRobotics modem site ran
 DC> PCB back then.  :-)

 NA> I keep hearing from many people that Chicago had *the* scene,
 NA> possibly the biggest in the country at one time. Toronto had a
 NA> big one but nothing compared to some other American cities.

Yes, it was pretty active, and Net 115 at the time was fairly big.  I 
was running the BBS and Fido from 93-96.  Really a great time.

 NA> Lol wow, Dale Barnes the current IM/IE author I think lives in
 NA> Chicago... somewhere in IL anyhow.

The nodelist shows him in both Chicago and Houston, which seems a little 
strange.  As far as I know, IM/IE is not under further development.


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