In a message of 04-Nov-03 Todd Sullivan wrote:   
      
   > I have been reading AMIGA for ten years with a few periods here and there   
   > when no feed was available for me. Just think about back when this echo   
   was   
   > a several hundred messages a day echo. Does anybody know then AMIGA   
   > started for the very first time.   
      
   I was linked to it in 1988 when my system first became Fido capable, prior   
   to that I had been using it on other boards (although in those days I   
   predominately haunted AUST_AMIGA). So at least 1987 & possibly, just maybe,   
   1986.   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Lance   
      
      
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   In a message of 04-Nov-03 Todd Sullivan wrote:   
      
   > I have been reading AMIGA for ten years with a few periods here and there   
   > when no feed was available for me. Just think about back when this echo   
   was   
   > a several hundred messages a day echo. Does anybody know then AMIGA   
   > started for the very first time.   
      
   I was linked to it in 1988 when my system first became Fido capable, prior   
   to that I had been using it on other boards (although in those days I   
   predominately haunted AUST_AMIGA). So at least 1987 & possibly, just maybe,   
   1986.   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Lance   
      
      
   --   
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