JumpStart BBS
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"JumpStart BBS came about because I always needed a driver or
utility when I was onsite and I couldn't carry everything with me.
The first BBS system hardware was an IBM XT with 640k and a 5 Meg
hard drive. When I finally took the system down I had 15 computers
running Novell Netware Lite. 2-6 disc CD Changers, 3 gigs of hard
drive space (that was REALLY big back then) and a satellite dish
downloading over 500 megs of Newsgroups a day. I also offered the
first Internet email in South Florida. Of course the Internet came
along and BBS's days were numbered. At its height I had several
thousand users calling from all over the world. I think the
furthest distance call I got was from a user in South Africa and
he called at least twice a week. The BBS's specialty was utilities
and MOD music files. I also had lots of "doors" running all the
greatest games and lots of users battling it out to be top dog.
Every year at Christmas I would run this one door that emulated a
connection to Santa at the North Pole, I wish I still had the logs
from all the kids that would call and 'talk' to Santa. The program
was a simple IA that would respond to keywords. But of course
those were the days when we were a little more naive about what a
computer could do. I had a blast running that system and it was a
great learning experience." - Sandy Dykes

Phone   : 407-337-2559
Place   : Port St Lucie, Florida
Years   : 1992 - 1995
Sysop   : Sandy Dykes
Software: PCBoard

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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