AA> I came on board to Fidonet in 1993 with Vis a Vis Communications  
 AA> BBS.  I offered internet email, and QWK for offline reading.

It was cool when BBSs started offering internet e-mail. It was fututistic and
exciting. I found a BBS that offered it too, but of course I didn't have tons
of people to send e-mail to back then.

 AA> Prior to all that, I experimented with operating a low key BBS  
 AA> for about 3 years using RBBS-PC.  It was very tricky at the time  

There were a handful of RBBS boards in my area. Does it support color? I
remember those being all monochrome (I think.)

 AA> front-door intercom system to my apartment. Whenever I got a  
 AA> buzz at the door, it would interrupt the BBS session currently  
 AA> in progress.

That's funny! When I started out I was using my parents' voice line and was
running the BBS from like 10pm-7am, and they had call-waiting, which caused
similar issues.

Back then there were a bunch of BBSs running just at night - looking back,
that was such a terrible idea!

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