Airspace Non-smokers' Rights Society BBS
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"The full name was Airspace Non-smokers' Rights Society BBS. This
BBS was in fact up and running around 1985 on a Kaypro 10 cp/m
(ZCPR1 and later ZCPR3 actually) machine running Heavy Metal BBS
software. The BBS was private for the first year or so and used
only as an organizational tool for the Province wide Airspace
organization. I made it public for the public relations value and
it caused quite a stir due to its, at the time, controversial
topic. I think we must have invented flame e-mail because we sure
got a lot! It was later moved to a PC clone running Opus 1.1 on
DOS/DesqView and later again migrated to Maximus running on
DOS/DesqView and later Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and some short term
flirtations with OS/2 and even an early beta of Windows NT 3.1 I
got directly from Bill Gates and the senior management at
Microsoft. The BBS was also on FidoNet with Binkley as the front
end for the most part. I pulled the plug in the fall of 1995 as we
migrated our systems to e-mail and the web. The organization is
still very much active, makes the front pages regularly, and has a
web site at http://airspace.bc.ca and http://safework.ca.
"The Kaypro Users Group BBS (VKUG) was also active in these early
years. (pre-Airspace in fact) When I first got the machine from a
gentleman who ran the Vancouver Portable Computer Club BBS, who's
name I unfortunatly forget, it was on an old cp/m Osbourne One
(running ZCPR version 3) with a 5 meg Trantor hard disk and a 300
bps modem. It was also running Heavy Metal BBS software which I
converted to Opus/Binkley and Maximus/Binkley. Kaypro donated an
new 4.77Mhz Kaypro XT clone for the Opus software conversion which
firms up the dates pretty well I should think. Jay Siegel and I
shared SysOp duties for those years. I think it was shut down
finally in 1995 but can't be sure.
"The VPCC BBS I believe was one of the very first BBS's in British
Columbia if not Western Canada. There is some reference of the old
organization at http://www.pccfa.org/whoweare/ but no mention of
the BBS unfortunatly." - Dale Jackaman

Phone   : 604-270-6475
Place   : Richmond, BC, CANADA
Years   : 1985 - 1995
Sysop   : Dale Jackaman
Software: Heavy Metal, Maximus, Opus

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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