In a message of 19 Nov 96 Rob Hilditch wrote to me:

 AS>>      Well, you would have seen the stats someone posted in one of the
 AS>> sysop echos - BBS numbers are certainly on the fall.

 RH> But this weeks diff saw a size increase in the nodelist.

     Didn't notice.

     Must have been all the 16 year olds starting KeWl boards.

 AS>>      Well, I picked up a 686 the other day, so I'll be spending time on
 AS>> thar and I guess progressively less on my 2000 (sold a 1200 recently).

 RH> What did you get for the 1200 ?

     A handful of magic beans.

     There's not much demand for Amiga's these days, strangely enough. ;)

     Oh, people are still buying them, but you have to be lucky to find
them - I bet you can count the number of new Amigas sold here in say the
last month or so on one hand. :(

     Anyway, having played with this 686 and Windows 95, I'm sorry that I
didn't difercify earlier.

 AS>>      The BBS is still running, but I don't know for how much longer.

 RH> Going to become a point mate ?

     Don't know yet.

     I need two computers in the house - too much demand for access. So the
Amiga stays, anyway.  I'll suss out the IBM software and see whether I
transfer my mail and/or the BBS to the clone

        // Cheers 
      \X/  Arthur

... Sarcasm levels exceeded. Dropping Carrier.
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