Hey Chad, how you doing honey?
I use to run a 32 line BBS in South Florida. I started with 4 WANG ? 2400 modems in an old IBM AT 286. It started off as a hobby and turned into a business. I add a bridge and offered telnet but it wasn?t long after that when the web was born. Once I spotted the web I ditched the BBS. I wasn?t sinking any more money into that Galticomm money pit. There were tons of die hards who believed that the web was a passing fancy like laser disk and that people logged on for the sense of community and to be local. I knew things were going to rapidly change.
I wasn?t much into games online or on the PC. Today I like free cell and would have played it if I knew about it back then. I was more into chatting.
I owe my PC knowledge to some idiot that worked for COMPUSA. I strictly used my old AT for copy writing and a simple spread sheet. I hired him to come over and fix it. He brought a PORTABLE, NOT a laptop but a thing the size of a suit case. He asked to use my phone line, plugged in and I watched him chatting with people and downloading files. He was one of those guys who loves to intimidate women and I?m one of those women who hates guys who do this. I was, however amazed at this new technology. The next morning I woke up, waked to my home office and the same problem I had before reared again. I tired contacting him via pager and phone. He wouldn?t return my calls so I bounced his 500.00 check. I got every book I could and torn that, ?sound like an airplane taking off? AT PC apart! I then research until I found out what a BBS was and within 8 months had four lines up. Needless to say the idiot logons and breaks into SYSOP chat with me. ?Nice board buddy!? ? ?Thank you. I owe it all to you asshole. ?
I?m sure his worthless ass is still floating around out there and I hope he?s reading this now.
Dianna Vesta
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