[ale] OT: who's bought/seen Caprica?

[Sean C. McCord]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:48:57PM -0400, Mike Harrison wrote:
>On Mon, 4 May 2009, Sean C. McCord wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:41:08PM -0400, Kenneth Ratliff wrote:
>>>> Oooo, a 4x speed increase, my BBS is gonna rip!
>>>
>>> If you tell me you were a Wildcat! op, I'm going to hurt you.
>>
>> Here's to OPUS, the Slackware of BBS packages!
>
>I ran Colossus, then QBBS then TBBS..
>and in 1993 my partner Dan Lyke wrote an HTML
>reader in xBase code for the TBBS system..
>we were getting HTML files via Planet Connect
>satellite downloads and processing mail via UUCP
>via HoloNet using PIMP (Personal Internet Mail Processor)
>for TBBS.
>
>We upgraded to Linux in 1994, with a $3k per month 128k
>leased line, and ASN-3901 aka Arrakis aka Chattanooga.net was born.

Wow.  You definitely had a bigger operation than I did.   That's
pretty neat.  I always liked QBBS from the user side, but never messed
with it sysop-side.

>Dang I feel old.. but proud. :)

Indeed.

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Sean C. McCord
CyCore Systems
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