CONNECTION-80 Orlando
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"I put up the first 24x7 BBS in Orlando on July 1, 1981. The
software was called Connection-80. I was listed the hardbound book
that listed all the BBS in the US that came out sometime after I
brought my BBS up.
"I'm a pack-rat so somewhere I still have the original TBBS
manuals, and even have my first computer, the old original Radio
Shack Model I that I got in 1977 - two days after Christmas after
a 3 month wait. It was the 4th Radio Shack computer sold in
Orlando.
"That became the orignal BBS machine. The Connection 80 software
would hold only about 80 or so messages. The TBBS used a database
type approach to store message and capacity went way up. I then
moved to 80-track double density drives with the TBBS software and
that was 360K per drive and I could keep a great many more message
on line.
"When I moved it to the Max80 with the 8" DSDD floppy drives with
1.2MB per disk things got better and faster. Limits like that seem
quaint in today's world.
"I moved to TBBS - and serial number as recall ws 23, with the
first 10 being reservered and were for local testing in the Denver
area. I ordered TBBS to be shipped when it was released. I got it
and had one file missing and they set it up for transfer. I was up
and running before the hour was out. Dave Ebert at the company
said I was the first TBBS East of the Mississippi and may have
been the first up and running outside their test machines in the
Denver area. I later gave up TBBS and moved to a BBS on a Radio
Shack 16 written in BASIC that I bought, and then in a couple of
months moved to be a usenet leaf, and shortly thereafter a node.
At it's peak I was in the top-500 sites monthly - and that was in
the days when the full usenet feed was not too large. When the
daily feed when to 100MB/day I dropped the alt.binaries, and
finally all the alt groups." - Bill Vermillion

Phone   : 305-644-8327
Place   : Orlando, FL
Years   : 1981 - 1985
Sysop   : Bill Vermillion
Software: TRS-80 BBS

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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