Subj : Re: something new..
To   : Terry Roati
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Feb 09 2023 07:09 am

-=> Terry Roati wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

 AI> I don't think I ever got up to a thousand users but I had several
 AI> hundred, around 700 back then.

 TR> That's very good for your area I guess, Metro Manila had a population
 TR> of over 12 million then with free untimed local phone calls so users
 TR> were limited to 30 minutes, the two lines were always busy.

My first incarnation of realitycheckBBS was running Telegard with a 24oo
baud modem, with no offline door (yet). I was in Fidonet, but the focus
of my BBS was NIRVANAnet, a local othernet we'd set up. I'd see people
dial in and use all 30 or so minutes, and as soon as they'd hang up,
another caller would connect. I'd wake up in the morning and see
phreakers from Europe calling in to use their time. It wasn't until
another year or so that I installed a BlueWave door and people started
trading packets.

Those were heady, crazy times - to be so involved in a culture the world
knew *nothing* about.




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