FIDO #61 RAMS
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Also listed as: Mid West / RAMS

"RAMS was a 4-line chat system run on MajorBBS. John Pritchard
shut it down, I would assume, 1988. The computer in his basement
simply stopped working. He was completely anonymous at that time,
he never logged in, he just ran this thing in his basement for
some reason. We were all deviated, because this is how we (I was a
kid at the time) kept in touch. Many of us didn’t even know each
others real names. I was running a crappy little pirate BBS at the
time, but kind of bored with it.. I asked around and someone knew
John, and I got his phone number. I called him one day and asked
if I could run the system for him. He was an older guy, retirement
age, he had worked at IBM (Rochester MN). But my idea was, he
would own the software, I would own the computer and pay for the
phone lines, and I would run it. He first just dismissed me, he
didn’t know who I was. But some time later (I don’t remember, a
week or two maybe), he called me back. Asked me to come over to
his place, and met me.. he agreed to let me do it. I remember him
having a huge smile and said, “you’re going to have the best BBS
in town!” He had already paid for the latest release or Major BBS,
and handed it to me along with a box of 4 2400 baud modems. It was
huge – The MajorBBS software at the time came with 3 ring binders
for each “feature”.. like the BBS, and another for a game pack,
another to add more “lines” to it, etc." - Tyler K.

Phone   : 507-289-8452
Place   : ROCHESTER, MN
Years   : 1984 - 1988
Sysop   : John Pritchard
Software: FidoNet

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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