-=> Mike Powell wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-   
      
    > LOVED Intelec though! Very thoughtful people, for the most part.   
    > Oh - and very ACTIVE!   
      
    MP> Part of the reason I liked it was that there was not another Intelec   
    MP> node in my area, and most of the boards I was on networks with did not   
    MP> carry it, either.  It gave my users and me a different group of people   
    MP> to talk to.  :)   
      
   Yep! Virtual Dimension was 'the' BBS in town and the masters! No, they   
   didn't have Fido - but they did have local threads and they had a    
   satillite DOWNLOAD ONLY of SOME usenet stuff - but you know that's    
   not really for communication. :-)   
      
   Then The Fridge started and they brought in Intelec and they helped   
   start a regional list called VOL_NET (Tennessee being the Volunteer   
   state). There were BBS's in other towns that would have been LD   
   for me in Tennessee but also in northern Alabama and Mississippi   
   and I was suddenly communicating with them too! A whole new   
   world opened up to me and my wife and I took our kids to   
   Lexington (only about an hour away, but you know back then   
   the roads weren't all four lane like today - you didn't have   
   a GPS - etc.) and met a very nice couple from a BBS there.   
      
   We met at McDonald's where the kids could play and so the    
   wife could loan me Insomnia - the Stephen King book. Turns   
   out he was the sysop there, but of course back then you held   
   your cards a little close to the vest - kinda like now when   
   you sell or buy something on FB and you meet the person in   
   a public place. :-)   
      
      
      
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