Utility City BBS ================ "I actually started this board down in Dallas on a original IBM Xt, 8Mhz, 1MB ram, 10MB Harddrive. It slowly grew in size and went multi-line in 1987. My board was geared to people looking for any and every kind of utility: anti-virus, disk compression, diagnostics (PCTools & Norton 1.0!), modem dialers, BBS software, toolkits, ascii art and BBS doors. I think at one time I had about 30 doors running on my boards. I ran DOS based software under DesqView/X for the last 3-4 years so I could run both nodes from a single system and have a 3rd local node for maintenance. I became the South Central US USTG (US Telegard Network) which them became the ITCNet FIDO Network regional Host working with Jack Reece, Paul Maner and Jack Schofield (who took over for me when I moved to Michigan). I am listed in the ITCNet Guidelines here: http://textfiles.com/bbs/FIDONET/itcguide.txt and on the Routing map here: http://textfiles.com/bbs/FIDONET/itcroute.pol These (USTGNet, ITCNet) were FidoNet style networks but it wasn't a part of FidoNet per se. We were a standalone, isolated network (because FidoNet was such a big bunch of wankers at the time). Then I moved to Michigan and became not only the North Regional Hub but the Central US Zone coordinator and a regional FidoNet hub. Serviced Auburn Hts, Leonard, Auburn Hills, Sylvan Lake, Milford, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Troy, CLarkston, Waterford, Taylor. I was the first to distribute out the huge M.O.D. Bust info http://www.textfiles.com/news/modbust.txt I participated in a number of "Warez" and "Cracking" groups. With three other friends we started "S.A.T.A.N" and released the first crack for the original Mech Warrior game. If only I had thought that this info would ever be needed. I donated about 200GB of tape backups and my tape drive to Goodwill about 2 years ago which had 8 years of FidoNet, USTGNet and ITCNet netmail and BBS lists. Such is life. My BBS went down when I started getting serious about Linux. I started the alt.sport.photon internet newsgroup and had one of the first FidoNet/ITCNet to Internet News gateways. Shouts to Freddy Krueger and the ElmStreet Crew, BK, Jim Kitchen, Charlie Riess, Jack Reece, Paul Maner, Jack Schofield, Midnight Oil (1 & 2), Cool Hand, INC, THG and RAZOR. I now run BeamSport, http://beamsport.com which is really just another BBS. I have now come full circle." - Eric Kimminau Phone : 313-299-5864 Years : 1985 - 1993 Sysop : Eric Kimminau Software: Celerity, Renegade, Telegard, UBBS 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ gopher://hp84.com/ | https://ge97.com/ .