Personal Touch
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Also listed as: The Personal Touch

"The Personal Touch BBS was originally set up as a single line in
early 1989 using the Telegard BBS software. With the help of a BBS
member's MAC {YUK!} I was able to parse out the data of the user
list to allow the site to evolve to WildCat! in 1991. Telegard had
no export means, and WildCat! needed a certain format, which
HyperCard could create.
"With WildCat!, the system was also expanded to 3 lines (3 USR
SysOp program 19,200 Courier Dual Standard modems) and a local
SysOp login window. It ran on a 286, and later 386SX25 under DOS
6.22 and DesqView for the virtual 'DOS window' nodes. I operated
the BBS as a hobby and means of relaxation after my weeks on the
road as a field engineer. Eventually I was laid off by my company
in January of 1992 and experienced a year of continued
unemployment. The only offers I had at the end of 1992 were one
from a little company called Microsoft locally in Charlotte, and a
company in the Caribbean who shall go un-named. Let's see,
Microsoft Windows 95 development team - $17,500 and US taxes, or
?????? - $46,750 and NO TAXES!?!? Well, what would YOU have done?
"I moved to the Caribbean in Feb. 1993, which is when I
transferred the BBS software and data backups to John Pierce. He
ran the board supposedly until 1997, or thereabouts. I have lost
touch with him in the intervening years. I still have the 386SX25
system that ran the personal touch and all the data thereon from
the last day of operation. I miss those days, meeting weekly at
The Mill on Woodlawn Road and seeing all the users and SysOps and
enjoying the amateur talent show.
"I am still in contact with Eric Hasson (Snidely Whiplash of The
Mounties BBS) and many of the former users of The Personal Touch
BBS. Did I say I miss those days? Oh yeah, last paragraph! Well, I
do miss them, and the comeraderie we shared in that fledgling
technological period. I just emerged from under the rubble of
Hurricane IVAN and have been doing genealogical research. The
search truned up my name and I just had to take a look. Thanks for
the memories!" - Paul "Spike" Dedrick - SysOp of The Personal
Touch BBS (Nov 2, 2004)

Phone   : 704-537-6075
Place   : Charlotte, NC
Years   : 1989 - 1993
Sysop   : Paul Dedrick, Paul Spike Dedrick
Software: Telegard

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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