RECOVERY
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Also listed as: Recovery / Recovery (125/9) / Recovery Alcoholism
/ RECOVERY BBS / Recovery / alc'ism

"Bob Kovach founded Recovery BBS in 1986, running at possibly
2400. The Fidonet nodelist had around 5-600 entries at the time.
It was one of the 2 or 3 first BBS's in the country dedicated to
12-step recovery, and some of the forums/echos/whatever that began
in the early days of Recovery BBS are still active, with some of
the same people, on the web. Early on, Bob ran two nodes under
DESQview, on an AST 286, with a pair of USR 9600s. Throughout its
history it ran USRs except for a brief period when I and alot of
other sysops switched to Hayes in order to take advantage of Hayes
getting 28.8 out the door first. I (Tim Spofford) took over from
Bob in 1987 or '88, when his AIDS forced him to give it up (he
died in 1989). After awhile I switched from Binkley/Opus to
FrontDoor/QuickBBS, not because of their technical superiority (if
any) but to keep it interesting. For the same reason I later
switched to RemoteAccess. I ran Recovery BBS at several phone
numbers in San Francisco, Marin County, and Richmond, Calif, with
a tie line to San Francisco. It was never running on an Oakland as
you have it listed, though I may have had an Oakland phone number
at one point. Eventually, I burned out, turned Recovery over to
Rich Gorin - as far as I know, the 3rd and last sysop - who ran it
until the mid-90s. I continued to be in the nodelist as 1:125/99
but didn't run a public board. In 1991 I moved to Portland (503
a/c) and started Recovery Northwest, which you have listed, as
1:105/99, as tell as another BBS (also listed). I moved Recovery
Northwest to Seattle (206 a/c)(also listed) in 1995 but became
bored and took it down in 1995."
- Tim Spofford (http://spof.org tims@spof.org ex-Fidonet 1:105/9,
1:105/99, 1:125/99, 1:362/something (don't remember), plus various
points off other systems from time to time.) "

Phone   : 415-255-2188
Place   : San Francisco, CA
Years   : 1985 - 1996
Sysop   : Bob Kovach, Tim Spofford, Rich Gorin
Handles : First, Second, Third
Software: FidoNet, Opus, QuickBBS, RemoteAccess

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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