212NC
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Also listed as: CCNET NC / Central Coast Net NC / MCBBS / Message
Center / Message Center BBS / NET NEC

"I started this BBS on a Comodore64 with a home-made RS-232 port
and a 2400 baud modem. I enlisted the genius of Mike Thompson to
write the machine language code to hide 'under' the ROM in order
to make this work. The basis for the software was a BASIC program
I created and all the ASCII translation and modem work was done
with Mike's code. It worked great all the way up to 19200!!! Once
I realized that I couldn't keep up with the traffic on a couple of
floppy drives (I eventually bought a gargantuan 1Mb floppy for
that thing) then I moved to a PC and QuickBBS which quickly ran up
to multi-tasking 3 versions with 3 modems and phone lines. On-line
games and file transfers were the most used during the later
years, but integration of FidoNet kept the message areas alive. I
even charged for the 3rd phone line as a 'premium' service to
those that were tired of not being able to get on-line with the
other 2 very busy lines. A great adventure and learning experience
that eventually got me into opening and running the first 'true'
local ISP in my town...what a trip!" - Jim Tinlin

Phone   : 805-489-1966
Place   : Arroyo Grande, CA
Years   : 1988 - 1999
Sysop   : Jim Tinlin
Software: Home-made, QuickBBS, RemoteAccess

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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