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   Michael Borthwick to Mike Dippel   
   Re: Hi, new node here :)   
   31 Mar 23 13:19:36   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48   
   MSGID: 954:895/48 af7ca09a   
   REPLY: 954:895/1 38aba5f3   
   TZUTC: 1100   
    MD> I started back in the days of DOS.  Had 4 phone lines hooked into it, one   
    MD> connected to a    
    MD> an ISP so I had internet access. Of course, it was via a modem so it was   
    MD> very slow.  But    
    MD> I had a lot of games and users flocked to it because it was such a novel   
    MD> thing back then.   
      
   Yes my first modem was a 14.4k - brand new technology only just released. It   
   wasn't long after I got my first 1x cd-rom drive. Was on DOS 6.2 with Windows   
   3.1 but mostly used DOS.   
      
    MD>    
    MD> I wish I had the activity now that I did back then.  I can't even get my   
    MD> family to login    
    MD> now :(   
      
   Ah can't blame them, only the die hard use BBS these days. It's heaps of fun   
   and you get to chat to people you would never reach on facebook or reddit. At   
   least with BBS and FTN only people that want to be here are here, and the   
   trolls and other horrible people are too busy on twitter to bother us here :)   
      
   ... There are two types of people; those who finish what they start and   
      
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