KAINE'S World
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" First I want to say thank you for the work you have obviously
done in preserving the history of BBS's . I am "Jason Michaels" (I
used my on the air DJ name from WBXQ) the SYSOP of KAINESWorld
BBS. I been aware of your list for sometime now and cannot express
how much it makes me smile to just see those old familiar names on
screen again. That time period was downright magical in terms of
the BBS community. All of us 814 area sysops were a pretty tight
group who helped eachother daily, be it a problem with altering
.Dat files, figuring out the best Init string to use, or help
getting an "add-on" for Barney Splat to work. There were even a
couple of sysop volleyball games outside of Roosevelt Jr High.
Seth Able(L.O.R.D creator) was very active in helping overcome any
issues one may have had with getting L.O.R.D to run right on
whichever BBS platform we used. KAINES world started on a 8088 ibm
compatible pc with a single node bbs on the kitchen table of a
party house right outside PSU. Occupied by 3 sets of teenage
couples utilizing the shared lone phone line causes Many early
dropped carrier messages for sure. I was attending Computer school
at the time learning cutting edge things like dBase III and Win
3.1. When Kaines world was first online, it was simply to tinker
with system files for Searchlight, and to work on ansi art for
"Welcome Screens" for a few sysops I had come to befriend as a
user. By the time Kaines World signed off in late 97 for good it
was running two nodes at 19200, had over 150 users and was rocking
some sweet custom RIP graphics, most of which created by Sandy
Childester from Outworld arts. Hands down, Sandy was a Pioneer in
terms of digital art and many BBS sported her work. Her custom
Welcome page art for Kaines World Is my single most regrettably
lost file, would love to see that again. Kaines world sadly, was
zipped away in a file placed on an old laptop along with my"Hot
Rod" game files and countless midi files and lost in a fire. There
will never be a time in computing like that again..... Thank you
for reminding me of it. "A Blinding light engulfs you. You are now
in the presence of Kaine" Sysop has pulled you into chat. Logout"

Phone   : 814-944-2693
Place   : ALTOONA, PA
Years   : 1996
Sysop   : Jason Michaels

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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