Valhalla
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"VALHALLA began operation on June 12, 1992 on a 286 with 80MB of
disk space and a 14,400 bps modem, running DOS 5 and WWIV 4.
At that time, a board could be in only one network (using WWIV's
proprietary networking), and there was a schism between two major
networks, WWIVNet (managed by the author of the software, Wayne
Bell "Random #1@1") and WWIVLink, which had broken away about a
year before. I joined WWIVNet and became "Starship Trooper
#1@2750". Within the next year, however, the software was modified
to support multiple networks, and VALHALLA joined WWIVLink as
well, as well as several others.
Most of the networked "sub-boards" (newsgroups) were related to
science fiction, role-playing games, C programming, and WWIV sysop
discussions. One user of my system was Tim Skirvin, who was made
co-sysop because of his frequent contributions to many "subs", and
later became a well-known Usenet personality.
Source to WWIV was available to sysops who had paid the $50
registration fee, and we exchanged "mods", or modifications, on
networked sub-boards. I created a few trivial mods, but spent much
more time developing external utilities, mainly related to
WWIV-style networking. Among these were "ELN", a more graphical
version of "L-NET", a viewer and editor for spooled messages
awaiting transit to the next node, and "STRIPIT", which
intercepted incoming messages and applied various filters --
basically implementing system-wide killfile functionality.
In December of 1992 the 286 system was upgraded to a 386/25 with
4MB of memory. I hoped to be able to run the BBS under Windows 3.0
and take advantage of multitasking; I quickly learned that Windows
was unable to service the serial interrupts fast enough, and the
high error rate made any connection unuseable. A month later, I
upgraded to OS/2 2.0, which was much more able to handle a
high-speed serial connection, even when other programs were
running. Like several other local sysops who had come to the same
conclusion, I quickly became an OS/2 advocate (and added several
OS/2 advocacy subboards).
Also in early 1993 I joined Fidonet, where WWIV systems were
rather rare, due to the complexity of the gateway software.
The board remained extremely popular, with its single phone line
in use almost constantly, until August of 1993, when I relocated
to the 312 area code (Chicago). In its next incarnation, it was
known as "A Clockwork Orange OS/2" - Matt Hucke
"History of this BBS is at
http://www.cynico.net/~hucke/valhalla.html"

Phone   : 217-352-3682
Place   : CHAMPAIGN URBAN, IL
Years   : 1992 - 1993
Sysop   : Matt Hucke
Software: WWIV

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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