Club II ======= Also listed as: CLUB II BBS / The Club / The Club II "Came across an old email that mentioned your site, and I can help with the specifics of my own boards, which are a bit off. However the story is a bit complex, so I'm not sure how you would choose to represent it, so here's the chain of events. My system, The Club, (Not "Club I") came online in either late 1980 or 1981 (no records of the actual date exist so call it '81) on a TRS-80 Model 1 on my own software, at the phone number 313-334-8877. The original modem was a Radio Shack non-auto-answer unit and I answered calls manually at first(!) In fall '83 I moved to East Lansing, (Michigan State,) and The Club came with me, and opearted full time in our dorm room, a 517 number. Since there were a lot of calls, I set up a second system, "The Club II", (not "Club II or Club II BBS") on the Detroit number, on a DOS box. The Club and Club II did limited message and file sharing to tie the communities together. In '84 it was up in the dorms again, then I met my wife and we moved into our own place, and it went up on.... 517-372-0004? We were there a year and then picked up a new house, and with it the 517-372-3131 number, so that'd be 1985. I ordered multiple lines, and another TRS-80. A year or so later I rewrote the system on Unix with a multiport card. The Club continued to operate at 372-3131 until December of 2000. The Club II is still up, still at the original 313-334-8877, (though the area code was changed to 248,) and it's also telnet'able at theclub.conklinsystems.com, though there are essentially no callers now. I'm not sure how you would want to map that into your listing format, but as I've maintained a BBS at the 334-8877 number for ~25 years now, I'm pretty sure your existing entries need an update. ;-)" - Terence Conklin As a footnote, I still have The Club's original hardware, that TRS-80 Model I, overclocked 200%, still running strong. On rare occasions, I've had a 'retro' day and allowed people to log in to the original hardware via telnet (through a PC.) At this point though I'm starting to see disks losing sectors, as I believe I'm at the chemical age limit of magenetic media. Phone : 313-334-8877 Place : Detroit, MI Years : 1981 Sysop : Terry Conklin, Terence Conklin, Unknown Software: FidoNet 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/ .