Carrier-Point Info
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Also listed as: CPI BBS

"CPI BBS was started by me (Mark Bishop) back around 1989 in a
small office off Cherry Street in Long Beach, California. At that
time, I was also an authorized PC-SIG re-seller of Shareware with
PC-SIG being among the largest distributors of Shareware
worldwide. I was using at that time the infamous TBBS multi-user
BBS software running on a single 486 PC and 10 incoming telephone
lines. I tinkered around a lot and amazingly with some help
managed to run a single drive CD-ROM player with a PC-SIG
Shareware disc in a multi-user environment. I then designed an
ASCII menu program and created an online library of Shareware.
Determined to make a living out of the Shareware business, and
seeing the potential of BBSes and the advent of the Internet, I
started a subscription online service and brought together my
magazine ads for selling Shareware and that of joining my BBS.
While CPI BBS eventually closed it doors, a couple of years later
I re-opened it in Gardena, California but tripled the number of
incoming lines and then adding a database and matchmaker site as
well. Believe it or not, I had only 1 other competitor that
matched my membership size and that was a small company called
"Earthlink". And as the story goes, Earthlink succeeded by being
the first BBS in the area to get a T1 Internet connection and then
over-selling it's connection with the smart marketing idea of
sending out a floppy disc with all of the dial-up programs needed
to get on the Internet. That, along with a large assortment of
porn on their site, Earthlink grew by leaps and bounds. I will
always remember my BBS experience. I ran both the CSULB BBS
(562-985-8737) for a number of years as I was both a student and
later a staff member, and then CPI BBS (213) 423-4999 and then
Carrier-Point Informatin BBS (310) 366-7959 and loved every second
of it." - Mark Bishop

Phone   : 213-423-4999
Place   : Long Beach, CA
Years   : 1989 - 1993
Sysop   : Mark Bishop
Software: TBBS

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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