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Also listed as: Cybercom / Cybernetic Communications Network /
Cyberspace / Muddy Water Computer Society BBS / Muddy Waters UG /
MWCS Admin / MWUG / Software Etc

"Wow, what a blast from the past - I ran a google on my own name
when they bragged they had doubled their index size and noticed
your listing for my BBSes, thanks for listing me. Just to amplify
comments on the local BBS scene, the Sysops for most of the boards
used to get together at Garbonzo's Pizza at 12AM on Sunday morning
to shoot the sh** and talk about the scene, until they kicked us
out at 3 or so, then to the local pool hall til 6AM or so. The
group called itself the Looney Club. A core of members that did
house parties and other early morning bashes were the Hardcore
Looney Club. Some of those guys I still see on occasion and are
still friends for life. Here's some additional info on various
incarnations of my own BBS: 1986-1988 "AlphaNet" Software:
AppleNet. Ran on an Apple //e under DOS3.3 with two disk drives
(total of 252K of disk!) and a 300bps modem 1988-1990 "Cybernetic
Communications Network" Hardware: IBM PC XT with 10mb hard disk
(later expanded to a 30mb) running RBBS and later Wildcat One of
the first FIDONET nodes in Manitoba off YCN. 1990-1993 "Muddy
Water Computer Society BBS" Hardware: Clone XT, 240mb disk,
running RBBS (?) Online BBS for the Muddy Water Computer Society,
which was originally the Muddy Water Osborne Group which ran an
RCP/M at 204-832-4593 from about 1985 til it moved to MSDOS and my
basement. The hard drives were pulls from the Burroughs mainframe
as I recall and generated so much heat I didn't need baseboard
heat in my office all winter. My parents probably wondered why
their Hydro bill was so high! Eventually the BBS was moved to a
commercial office owned by one of the members and grew into a 6
(?) line system with many hundreds of megs of software before the
Internet made it irrelevant in about 1997." - Gord Tulloch

Phone   : 204-667-5919
Place   : WINNIPEG, CANADA
Years   : 1986 - 1993
Sysop   : Gord Tulloch, Terry Smythe
Handles : -=Overlord=-

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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