Chaz's Place
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Also listed as: Chuck & Laura's / Future World / Logic Control /
Midnight Rider / N.I.B. / N8QXP BBS / Rising Sun BBS

"WOW! I can't believe someone really remember my BBS's!!! I became
involved with BBS's via Ham radio, a old friend of mine, mark
N8JCF, sold me or gave me a ZOOM 2400 baud modem that he had
laying around... and at the time, I was using for packet radio
(which was big in ham radio back in the early 1990's) a WYSE Dumb
terminal, which was given to me..... and later I used some sort of
dumb terminal given to me by mike, N8NQP... anyhow... packet was
become quite the bore and Mark suggested that I try online
BBS'ing, something I'm sure he regrets to this day...;-P
anyhow... I became "smitten" with the Idea of online BBS'ing...
however It wasn't the first time I called BBS's.. I used to call
them, when I lived in Detroit.. I used to call "the graveyard" a
C-64 BBS back in the day.. anyhow... after seeing "Soapbox the
BBS!", I decided to run my own... and the rest is history...
I never did have alot of callers...as I wasn't much of a Files
BBS.My system ran originally on a 8088 IBM XT, with a green screen
monitor, 20 meg hard card, 640 base memory and swapped to the
floppy drives, everytime the system would do something... I was
running FrontDoor 2.02, Gecho 1.00 and T.A.G BBS all from this
system... I picked this system up from the Sysop of "Soapbox! The
BBS", basically gave me the system for nothing! I ended up selling
the blasted thing for some ungodly price... funny thing, my bbs
outlasted Soapbox bbs! hehehe... the Original name of my bbs was
"Lighting Bolt BBS" Which made it's debut in 1993 or so...
Somewhere along the line, I convinced my grandmother to get a loan
for over 2K to get me a 486/66 DX2 System.. with 64 megs of
Memory, a 540 meg hard drive and sound blaster 16, and a cheapy
video card. man, I thought I was the king shit! (and I was for a
while...) ran that system with a BBS on it for about 2-3 years.
Anyhow... later I upgraded to a Pentium 1 clone machine and run
the BBS from that the last name of my board was called jus that...
"The Board" and I switched to maximus BBS for a while... and that,
for all accounts was a BIG MISTAKE... anyhow... went back to
T.A.G. and that's when the BBS scene basically Died! AOL went to
$19.95 a month unlimited access and I basically got involved in
the internet, and my BBS suffered... so, in or around 1994... I
pulled the plug on the BBS for good.
Chuck and Laura's was my idea (stupid as it was...) of getting my
Ex-Girlfriend involved with the BBS'ing scene... Her handle was
"Groominator" (she worked for a dog grooming shop, she was from
near jackson, mi) I never did marry here... We broke up and she's
remarried and living near Kalamazoo, Mi. I never was able to
settle on a name to reflect my personality. I just went with
something that worked... I miss the BBS days...(or daze....) and
wish they'd make a come back as Telnet BBS's... Thanks for
remembering me and bringing back alot of good and....not so good
memories for this old Sysop!" - Chuck

Phone   : 313-388-7675
Place   : Lincoln Park, MI
Years   : 1994 - 1997
Sysop   : Charles Adkins, Ken Pletzer
Software: T.A.G.

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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