Railnet
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Also listed as: RAILNET

"Railnet started out on August 28, 1984, as a single-line BBS on a
TRS80 Model 4 (in Model III mode) running the Tabloid-80 BBS
program - a BASIC program with versions for Apple and TRS-80
computers, published in a book and keyed in. Since it was all
BASIC I was able to improve the software pretty readily, and added
some assembly-language routines that made the speed bearable and
improved functionality quite a bit. The board started with 2 180k
floppies, later expanded to 4 180k floppies and ultimately in the
TRS-80 configuration a 5meg hard drive. Users peaked at about 160
active in a 30-day period. In April 1991 the board moved to Waffle
on an IBM-XT home-built clone, since the sysop was interested in
email and Usenet news. The move pretty much killed the board's
user activity as most of the users were put off by the UNIX-like
command-line interface. In 1992 the board moved to Bedford and a
new phone number (as listed in this list) and quickly migrated to
Waffle on an AT&T 3B2 computer. That incarnation lasted until the
board closed down in 1999. The board offered internet email and
selected railroad-hobbyist related and other Usenet newsgroups
from September 1991 until is 1999 shutdown." - Rick DeMattia

Phone   : 216-883-6298
Place   : Cleveland, OH
Years   : 1984 - 1992
Sysop   : Rick DeMattia
Software: TAB80 then Waffle, Tabloid-80 then Waffle

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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