Post AvGfJrzSwnb5TurRNA by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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 (DIR) Post #AvGMuAnyZeCL885GXg by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-06-18T18:24:33Z
       
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       I have ~50 years of files, spottily and erratically, on my computer, and  lose things for decades at a time.Here's my telecom program's (telink) (it was terrible) modem dialing directory file from 1980. NECS and CNODE were big BBSs in the Boston area (where I lived then). The superbrain I think was the remote CPM of someone in NECS. Neil is Neil Colvin. Lol no area codes! Local dialing! Mike is Aronson. No idea what ICE lab is except that it's not the current ICE obviously. These were all auto-answer modems.More in 2/2, exceeded length.sprint426-8432...433-769-61;email1(206)827-24811200 baud (tty43)email2(206)827-2372 300 baud (tty44)email3(206)827-23041200 baud (tty100)email4(206)827-2406  300 baud (tty101)mike4354640;time212-245-3416;ICE lab voice onlymicrosoft(206)828-8080;Voice onlyunix115Internal UNIXunix2238-7174Neil's UNIX boxNECS646-3610CNODE470-2548Andover MA Layne DuBose.TCBBS313-846-6127dearborn MINECS646-3610RCPM-Superbrain862-0781ocean-rcpm(201)775-8705212ahqcbbs(312)545-8086Chicago Il.Bullet        266-7789 24hrs M GoldbergInfo-Exch 423-6985 24hrs  G MeaderSpeed-board254-4327password f85sa Speed PhreakAlpha         999-3210        B PerryDIAL-MATCH-18   334-6369      MATCHMAKER1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AvGMvTrfCGHCX1Qr2G by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-06-18T18:24:48Z
       
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       2/2Andover CNODE is where I first got the idea for FidoNet, when someone proposed having BBSs talk to each other to get past the "local dialing area" issue, that unless you are old enough to remember, or a hardcore phone freak, will make no sense and be hard to describe. But of course that's not how FidoNet ended up.DIAL-A-MATCH was a flirty sex board. Terrible software. There were lots of them. You'd fill out a tedious "questionnaire" and it did 1:1 matches. Which is silly, few are looking for themselves (I'm right here). The hack was you'd have like 5 profiles so you could match who you'd like to find. At 300 bits/sec.The sprint funny number, each . was a one? second delay, so it would dial the number, delay ~seconds, then TouchTone that code. Who knows.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvGPIMJVdXAzgKUffU by VE2UWY@mastodon.radio
       2025-06-18T18:51:12Z
       
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       @tomjennings Is hqcbbs what became Chinet?  Randy Suess and ... his co-conspirator whose name I can never remember ...
       
 (DIR) Post #AvGfJrzSwnb5TurRNA by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-06-18T21:50:53Z
       
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       @VE2UWY Ward Christensen? No idea. It was expensive to dial in to Chicago, and CBBS was constant busy signal. So I stayed local.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvGfuL28RYB9ywUzwG by VE2UWY@mastodon.radio
       2025-06-18T21:57:25Z
       
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       @tomjennings THAT'S HIM!  I didn't know Ward but worked with Randy at Sun back c.2000.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvGglREM8K0GY9XF20 by vt52@ioc.exchange
       2025-06-18T22:06:53Z
       
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       @tomjennings sprint calling card perhaps?
       
 (DIR) Post #AvHGswfrDoeERnHHTE by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-06-19T04:51:48Z
       
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       @vt52 Nah, more repeated to the railroad rights of way in the 80s. More telecom than anything else. I no longer remember.