MetroHUB 3
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Also listed as: PN Junction / Toronto North East

"The name PN-Junction came from the last names of myself and the
buddy who helped create and maintain the BBS throughout it's
lifetime (Al "P"ayne, Jim "N"ikolich), and seemed clever since we
were both studying electronics at the time and a PN Junction is
the basic building block of diodes, transisters, and ultimately
CPUs and other ICs. Throughout most of that era, the BBS ran the
DOS-based Fido BBS software, starting with Fido 11J. During
1992-1993, Al and I rented a house together, and eventually got
quite a networked lab going (all based on ARCnet and PowerLAN) in
our basement - I think we may have had 6 machines ganged together
at one point. It was Al's idea to name the nodes after the
Pleiades (sisters of greek mythology), and hence the name
"Pleiades Systems - Pleione Node". Throughout this time we ran
mainly the DOS-based PCBoard software as well as a front-end
called FrontDoor. It was also at this time when Al and I were,
respectively, the NetCoordinator and NetEchomailCoordinator for
Net 250, covering the Greater Toronto Area.
At the end of 1993, Al and I went on to find our own separate
apartments, but kept our respective BBSes running throughout. t
was at this time that my BBS changed its name to CompEuphoria
(which I just thought was a cool name). It was also early-on in
this time when Net250 obtained a gateway to the USENet newslists,
which I took immediate advantage of. Since the BBS has always free
for public use throughout it's ten-year lifetime, CompEuphoria
became one of the earliest BBSes that I know of to make USENet
mail available for free to the BBS community at-large.
It was in 1993 that I registered my first Internet domain name,
"euphoria.com". My contact-ID at Network Solutions was "JN13",
indicating that I was the thirteenth person/entity in the world
with the initials J and N to register a domain name. I'm pretty
proud of that, but I gave up the historical contact ID when I got
fed up with NSI and moved my domain name over to Register.com a
couple of years ago. It was with much regret that CompEuphoria
ended it's BBS days at the end of 1996, but by that time I had
moved to New York City, and found it very difficult to administer
the BBS from remote. I now have two domain names - "euphoria.com"
and "compeuphoria.com", and one of these days I will reincarnate
CompEuphoria, preserving as best I can the original look-and-feel
of the BBS, offering people a chance to experience the 80's
version of the Internet." - Jim Nikolich

Phone   : 416-465-2331
Place   : Toronto, ONTARIO
Years   : 1986 - 1991
Sysop   : Jim Nikolich

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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