The Purple Room BBS
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"Running this thing was a fascinating experience.
"It all began when I found a partially obscured, white, cardboard
box on a back shelf at Radio Shack. It bore no logo. It simply
read, in bold black letters:
"2400 Baud Modem (insert serial number)
"Not even a price tag. Well, I'd just turned 13 and recalled
reading about computers "talking" over the phone when I was eight
or so in a book my dad had. They did this by way of a
MOdulator-DEModulator. This was the first time I'd ever actually
come across one of the gadgets in the flesh. So, being the
technically oriented little bugger that I was (I cut my teeth on a
VIC 20 my eccentric yet mechanically ingenious great uncle bought
years before. That thing was great. Had a bloody tape drive. Those
were the days.)I did what any 13 year old kid would do.
"I begged mom for the money. I still recall her nervousness as I
dismantled the newly acquired 12 MHZ 286 we'd just bought. Then, a
few months later when I set up the board, I recall her dismay as
the phone calls just kept rolling in all hours of the night.
"In a matter of months, I heard about ARPAnet. I put two and two
together and realized what was about to happen. I figured if a 13
year old kid from the far east of Canada was tuned into what
amounted to a de facto network that existed solely due to the will
of the BBS operators it was only a matter of time.
"I got my first internet account in 1995.
"We were there guys." - Mark Gruchy

Phone   : 709-782-0470
Place   : Paradise, Newfoundland
Years   : 1991 - 1996
Sysop   : Mark Gruchy
Software: TriBBS

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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