Subj : SD COMPUTER SOCIETY
To   : Howie Coombe
From : Roy Witt
Date : Sat Jan 22 2005 11:34 am

Hello Howie.

21 Jan 05 18:59, you wrote to Tom Walker:

 HC> Dear Tom, in regards to this message to Me.

 >> -> > There at one time also were well over 300 BBS's in the San Diego

 >> -> That is a lot of BBS's for 1 Metropolitan area, even one as huge as
 >> San

 >>  Yes it was.

 HC> What is its density these days?.

15 nodes, 7 BBSs. Don't know if all of the BBSs are up and running, but
they're listed in the nodelist.

 >> But for some reason the San Diego general area has always been Very
 >> > Computer Aware.

 HC> Probably because, according to my reading of its reputation, it is a
 HC> very progressive Area.

Imported computer capitol of the eastern Pacific Rim.

 >> At one time we had the MOST broadband wired Downtown of any city in
 >> the United States.

 HC> That is a lot of broadband.

There's now a wireless network downtown. Free access, btw.

 >> And the great side effect of all those BBS's spreading the word and
 >> > computer aware people was a Multitude of small computer stores which
 >> meant   > lots of Competition and the resulting lower prices.

 HC> Jackpot.

The computer literate in San Diego don't buy systems, they build them from
all those availble parts.


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