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Net209 - those were the days. Of course having a local call to the Western Star didn't hurt either ;-) Sysop meetings at Shakey's Pizza - nothing beats in per
by EricE 7y ago
Net209 - those were the days. Of course having a local call to the Western Star didn't hurt either ;-)
Sysop meetings at Shakey's Pizza - nothing beats in person meet ups!
EDIT: It just dawned on me - how amazing is it that now that long distance calls are generally free (at least here in the US) that lots of people don't get the significance of "local call". What at time.
- em-bee 7y agothey already didn't get it in the 90s. from the early days of the internet: a host is a host from coast to coast, and noone will call a host that close, unless the host that isn't close, is busy hung or dead.
- throw0101a 7y ago(Zone 1) Net250, Toronto, Canada, checking in. > Net209 Las Vegas? * https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/host-tables/FIDONet-Hosts.txt https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/reference/net-directory/hos...
- RobGR 7y agoThanks for linking to that . . . it was fascinating to search through it for some of the small rural places I've lived or had connections to and see familiar names pop up, and think "of course he would have run FidoNet node". Was not too surprised to see Joe Barr (Austin) in there. He died in 2008 and Linux Journal, where a lot of his writing was published, is gone now also.
- EricE 7y ago>Las Vegas? Yup! I wonder what happened to Dave James and some of the other heavyweights from the local sysops. A few still have boards that are Internet accessible. I hadn't thought about it for years now but my first Intel PC was a cast off from Dave's bbs - a 33 MHz 386DX that had DIP and SIMM memory - 4MB of each. A beast back in those days. Was in a AT case - I still miss the big red on/off switch in the back right corner of the AT cases. Such a satisfying thunk when you turned the machine on or off.