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to: Andre Robitaille
from: Kurt Weiske
date: 2022-06-05 08:33:00
subject: Re: BBS`ing

-=> Andre Robitaille wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 AR> I seem to have left the scene right as it was spinning up. Last night I
 AR> remembered that the was one board in the area that was a Fido node, so
 AR> I started looking up old nodelists. You can see this explosion of BBSes
 AR> around like 1991-1994, and then a they started all disappearing right
 AR> around the time the first ISP showed up.

I found an old nodelist from when I first joined Fido in 1992, and it was 
mind-boggling how many BBSes there were at the time. I knew it was big, 
didn't recall how big.

I was in San Francisco, remember calling Tom Jennings' Fido BBS. I 
downloaded Fido from there, and Opus a little later on. The notion of being 
able to do everything with a batch file and a couple of DOS executables 
intrigued me.








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