Subj : Re: New BBS User!
To : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Wed May 07 2025 09:45 pm
-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
-=> Jimmy Anderson wrote to Foriest Jan Smith <=-
JA> I'm an old guy - used it back in the day. Never had the desire to be a
JA> SYSOP though - but I LOVE communicating!!! So echonets caught me in
JA> their, ahem - 'net' - a long time ago!
pF> I started off as a caller, then a co-sysop, managing a board from the
pF> BBS interface, moving messages, updating file listings, and so forth.
pF> Got the bug when I figured it was cheaper to set up a BBS and have
pF> people send me files than to go out and get them from other boards, and
pF> got sucked into the challenge of making handfuls of programs play nice
pF> and talk to each other. Totally automating a DOS BBS through the One
pF> Batch File was quite a challenge back in the 90s.
Closest I ever got was when The Fridge went from 2 to 10 nodes and
added some nets, I became a moderator. :-)
Intelec? I think was the big one... And VOL_NET was one that was started
just for the ones in the area. Remember, this was still during long distance
calling days. :-) It let us 'chat' with people in the area and surrounding
areas without calling long distance.
This was Jackson, Tennessee. Funny thing is, Dyersburg, where I am now
(actually Friendship, but Dyersburg is the closest) had a FIDO BBS at
the time, but I never got on it because it was long distance. :-)
... Shell to DOS... Come in DOS... Do you copy?
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