Great Big Dog
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"The whole thing began when I gave up on a home-based business.
There I was, with a second phone line going to waste and an extra
computer in the house, and Renegade was free... what the heck? We
had quite a busy -- and strange -- message board section with some
very dedicated "regulars." We even developed our own terminology;
for example, logging in was called "petting the dog." Also had the
best Trade Wars game in town. At least, that's what I was given to
understand. I didn't play, myself, but the game was very active,
and the players chipped in to pay the registration fee, telling me
they were willing to because it was becoming the best TW game they
knew of.
"Started with a smallish hard drive on the computer. I put a few
shareware programs in the file section but didn't set it up with
an upload/download ratio. "Conventional wisdom," of course, was
that no one would bother to upload files if you didn't require it.
And I didn't want them to because the hard drive was so small. But
they uploaded. And uploaded. And one day I came home and found the
BBS wouldn't work because the hd had gotten packed full of
uploaded files. I desperately scavenged around trying to find
stuff to delete so as to buy time until I could get a bigger hard
drive. Found a 40 meg (fairly big for those days, as you probably
remember) for $170 and had a torturous time getting it in and
working. I mean, geez, now you can buy a hard drive, take it home,
plug it in, and it pretty much just works. But Mike and I must
have played around for four or five hours to get this one going.
"I finally closed The Dog down when the burden of paying for the
extra phone line got to be too much." - Ray Dittmeier

Phone   : 502-447-8648
Place   : Louisville, KY
Years   : 1993 - 1994
Sysop   : Ray Dittmeier, Mike Neagle
Software: Renegade

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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