Subj : Re: Big nostalgia hits
To   : Bob Worm
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Nov 18 2023 08:56:00

-=> Bob Worm wrote to Dr. What <=-

 BW> I know it's bad form to regret being generous, and actually it allowed
 BW> some good friends of mine to get online before they otherwise would
 BW> have, but damn - I'd love to get that back now.

 When I started my BBS, I was working for a company where my boss had
 iterated through technology without really understanding it. We had a
 dial-up WAN, which he'd bought dozens of 2400 baud modems for it - but
 they didn't do any error correction and the end points were on crappy
 phone lines. All those got replaced with error correcting modems and
 left in a box.

 I was told to clean out the storage room and toss anything they
 couldn't use. I tossed them into the back of my car and gave out
 probably 2 dozen of them with a copy of COMMO loaded on a floppy disk.

 A year or so later when I asked a caller how he heard about my BBS, he
 said someone had given him a modem and a floppy disk with my BBS in the
 dialing directory... It was one of mine!




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