Subj : Re: Hello from Another Millennium
To   : AKAcastor
From : Al
Date : Thu Mar 14 2024 20:07:02

>> Dallas is still RC17.

> That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!

Yes, Dallas's BBS started arounf 1989.

>> Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
>> in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

Thinking more on this now. I was thinking of Basic'ly Computers that has 6 or more lines. That was Bob Satti's BBS.

Dallas's BBS was quite large too, he did have two, maybe three lines at one time.

> I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and
> then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick.  I think I heard he closed the last
> public dialup node in recent years?

Yes, it wasn't long ago but he still runs a node and has a large collection of fido areas from times past.

>> Times have changed but those were the days. :)

> I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager
> on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line,
> with a distinctive ring # for the BBS).  There was a 2-line BBS the next town
> over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines
> seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)

I had two lines I could run the BBS/mailer on but one was using our home phone line. I used that to call out to other BBSs or nodes when the BBS was busy. :)

Back in those days each line and modem cost big $$. I never had a multiline setup myself.

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