IBM World II
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Also listed as: IBM World II BBS

"I was a Co-Sysop on IBM World BBS with Mike Mendillo
(401-272-4739) before I opened up my own, hence the II on mine. We
had a lot of fun in those days and never dreamed that we would
eventually have what the Internet today has to offer. I had my own
Newsgroup - WinCnet - run by women. We were winking at all the
guys since there were few women running much of anything back
then. We did FIDO transfers and reached as far as Brazil. No men
were allowed to read the group on our boards and 'most' of the
other SySop's went along with it for the most part. Hard to
believe it was only operational for 2 years since it felt like a
lot more. One of the more interesting things that happened was
that lawyers from IBM contacted me and told me I had to change the
name of the board since it was infringing on their name. It looked
all serious, like my little BBS was a threat. I never did change
the name - posted the letter for everyone to see. In 2000 I ended
up living just down the street in San Jose, CA from one of their
sites.
"We also had IBM World's Kitchen run by a guy who was in school at
Johnson & Wales but I can't for the life of me remember his name.
Mike and I were Co-Sysop's on it. As time goes by, and we get a
lot older, we often find ourselves looking back at what was and
how it became to be what we have now. :-) I was on a tech group
the other day asking for help with a modem issue and we ended up
talking about old BBS days and what we ran for software and what
our background was and programs etc. Nostalgia. Good thing I got
my modem answer pretty quickly. :-)" - Marcy Crossman

Phone   : 401-397-5146
Place   : Coventry, RI
Years   : 1992 - 1994
Sysop   : Marcy Crossman, Marcy C/Mike M
Software: Wildcat!

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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