Subj : Re: Hello from Another Millennium
To   : Al
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Mar 14 2024 03:31 pm

> Dallas Hinton, of
> The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.

 A> Dallas is still RC17.

That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!

 A> I don't know Dallas peronally either. Like so many I 
 A> have conversed with in the nets I wouldn't know him if I 
 A> bumped into him somewhere.

I don't remember many names, but back in 1995 there was a "Region17Con" in Edmonton that I attended - I wonder if I may have briefly met Dallas then.  I remember that Scott Dudley (author of Maximus BBS software) was a guest speaker, I have fond memories of a couple of other sysops but I am blanking on names now.

 A> Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back 
 A> in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick.  I think I heard he closed the last public dialup node in recent years?

 A> Times have changed but those were the days. :)

I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line, with a distinctive ring # for the BBS).  There was a 2-line BBS the next town over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)


Chris/akacastor

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