Subj : Re: BBS Names
To   : DW
From : Warpslide
Date : Thu Mar 18 2021 07:46 am

*** Quoting DW from a message to Netsurge ***

 DW> Around 1994 or 1995 a lot of new BBSes started up that revolved
 DW> around Metal etc.. as has been said.  The Abyss, Bloody Casket, etc..

 DW> Miss those days. :)

There weren't that many BBSes available around Bracebridge where I grew up. 
The biggest was Prime Time BBS which was run by Chris Portway out of a 
resturant he owned just south of Gravenhurst.  He had local numbers available 
in Orillia & Bracebridge so his user base was quite large, making the door 
games fun to play.  He was running PCBoard, which I remember being impressed 
with, as the cost of a PCBoard license was way out of reach for my teenage 
salary.

I was good friends with his daughter (who was somewhat of a bad influance - I 
came home on day with my hair dyed black & wearing a Marilyn Manson t-shirt. 
My mom took one look at me when I came home, and starting laughing her head 
off).

My family went for dinner to his resturant one day, and when he found out who 
I was, invited me back to see his BBS.  I remember being somewhat surprised 
at the setup, several computers networked together with coax, modems plugged 
in here, there & everywhere.  I forget how many nodes he had, but it was way 
more than the 3 I was running.

I can still remember the day when his daugher called me up, crying, as Chris, 
her father had just passed away.  From a heart attack if I remember 
correctly.

Jay

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