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   -=> Andre Robitaille wrote to Dumas Walker <=-   
      
    AR> I seem to have left the scene right as it was spinning up. Last night I   
    AR> remembered that the was one board in the area that was a Fido node, so   
    AR> I started looking up old nodelists. You can see this explosion of BBSes   
    AR> around like 1991-1994, and then a they started all disappearing right   
    AR> around the time the first ISP showed up.   
      
   I found an old nodelist from when I first joined Fido in 1992, and it was    
   mind-boggling how many BBSes there were at the time. I knew it was big,    
   didn't recall how big.   
      
   I was in San Francisco, remember calling Tom Jennings' Fido BBS. I    
   downloaded Fido from there, and Opus a little later on. The notion of being    
   able to do everything with a batch file and a couple of DOS executables    
   intrigued me.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   ... Only a part, not the whole   
   --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52   
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