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-=> Terry Roati wrote to Alan Ianson <=-
AI> I don`t think I ever got up to a thousand users but I had several
AI> hundred, around 700 back then.
TR> That`s very good for your area I guess, Metro Manila had a population
TR> of over 12 million then with free untimed local phone calls so users
TR> were limited to 30 minutes, the two lines were always busy.
My first incarnation of realitycheckBBS was running Telegard with a 24oo
baud modem, with no offline door (yet). I was in Fidonet, but the focus
of my BBS was NIRVANAnet, a local othernet we`d set up. I`d see people
dial in and use all 30 or so minutes, and as soon as they`d hang up,
another caller would connect. I`d wake up in the morning and see
phreakers from Europe calling in to use their time. It wasn`t until
another year or so that I installed a BlueWave door and people started
trading packets.
Those were heady, crazy times - to be so involved in a culture the world
knew *nothing* about.
... Retrace your steps
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