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|    Aaron Thomas to August Abolins    |
|    Re: Early 90s Fido    |
|    01 Feb 21 08:16:58    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46       MSGID: 1:275/99 742d08b0       REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ecf5e438       TZUTC: -0500        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!              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)        * Origin: CompuBBS | Ashburn VA | cfbbs.scinet-ftn.org (1:275/99)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 19/36 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/18 120/302       SEEN-BY: 120/340 123/131 140 124/5016 129/305 153/7715 154/10 203/0       SEEN-BY: 218/700 221/0 222/2 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 428       SEEN-BY: 229/452 664 981 1016 1017 230/150 152 240/1120 2100 5138       SEEN-BY: 240/5411 5824 5832 5853 249/206 307 317 400 250/1 261/38       SEEN-BY: 261/100 1466 266/512 267/155 275/0 89 91 93 95 98 99 100       SEEN-BY: 275/101 201 301 280/464 5003 282/1031 1056 288/100 291/100       SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 310/31 317/3 320/119 219 322/757 340/400       SEEN-BY: 341/66 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/267 280 640/1321 1384 712/620       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/105 2452/250 2454/119 3634/12       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042       PATH: 275/99 100 261/38 712/848 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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