Greetings Ed!

 EV>> The REACT Operators I worked with when I operated the CD Ham Station
 EV>> Are the Cream Of The Crop CB'ers, I think!

 RW>> I don't think they're CBers anymore. They use a UHF radio
 RW>> service instead.

 EV> I didn't know that until today when Tom mentioned REACT is on FRS
 EV> freqs now.

That has been this way for many years now.

 EV>> Tom Currie the SYSOP of The Volunteer GT-Power BBS was/is involved
 EV>> in Both REACT and ARES back then.

 RW>> I seem to recall that name, but can't find it in the nodelist.
 RW>> It would be between Cullins and Cunningham and there's no such
 RW>> name.

 EV> I guess you didn't know the "GT-Power BBS Network" was a different
 EV> BBS Network.

 EV> The Volunteer BBS wasn't in the "FIDO BBS Network", that's probably
 EV> why you couldn't find his name or BBS in the 'FIDO' Nodelist.

The other reason might be that he has dropped out of Fidonet. There is
still an amateur radio oriented BBS in your area.

 EV> Back in the mid 1980's - early 1990's I saw in the Newspaper the City
 EV> Library had a BBS that was on FIDO, I Logged On as a GUEST to their
 EV> BBS one night to look around and didn't use it again because IIRC the
 EV> only BBS I was using then was for Commodore Computers, and what I saw
 EV> on the FIDO BBS didn't interest me back then as I was still learning
 EV> what's what on my Commodore 64 system.

Sounds familiar, but using a TI99/4a instead.

 EV> Later on, I saw messages from Mike Powells PAN-AM BBS - formerly(sp?)
 EV> called Moe's Tavern BBS - while I was using Toms The Volunteer BBS,
 EV> and learned that Mike carried both BBS Networks AND there was a echo
 EV> for BASIC Programming on the FIDO Network side I joined Mike's BBS
 EV> too.

I found a web site that calls itself Moe's Tavern, and it has a 1994
release of a commordore music file listed for download. Not much on the
PAN-AM BBS. A lot of obituraies for Mike or Michael Powell though.

 EV> After Mike got a job that took him away from my area I started using

Minneapolis?

 EV> Janis's <> His BBS had File Areas with lots of Files with information to help
 EV>> all kinds of Volunteer and Public Service people - CB, HAM, FIRE,
 EV>> POLICE, etc., etc.

 RW>> Janis Kracht probably has all of those files, as she's the
 RW>> Sysop of a file distribution system called Filegate.

 EV> I'd have to ask Janis if Filegate has any of Tom's GT-POWER files.
 EV> I'll leave a message to her in the FIDO GAZETTE echo to find out.
 EV> But I wouldn't think she has any because AFAIK her BBS was/is only on
 EV> the FIDO Network.  Not sure about that though.

She has a lot of files archived offline, so it may be possible that she
has it.

 EV> Do You read Janis's echo too?  If not I'll let You know what I learn.

Fidogazette, Cat's Meow and Z1C...


    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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