Subj : Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Mar 29 2024 06:53:00

I don't know how I got so lucky when I started my BBS. I lived in an
apartment and just assumed I'd be able to use the outside pair of 4-wire
telco wire to run the BBS line.

The apartment building I was in was lath-and-plaster, built in the
1920s, with old school solid copper 3-conductor cloth-wrapped wire.

Pacific Bell had a flat rate interior installation charge, I think it
was $75. The installer must have liked me, because he brought a
4-conductor telco wire from the DMARC, up through the garbage chute to
the second floor, stapled up and over 3 doors, the elevator, then back
down to my apartment, drilled under the baseboard to get through the
wall, then into the walk-in closet that was my office space.

Had I known better, or known I would only stay there 2 years, common
sense might have prevailed. Luckily, I was a dumb kid and the rest is
history.



.... Always the first steps
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