Subj : Kirin Ichiban
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Gryphon
Date : Mon Jul 25 2016 11:44 am

  Re: Kirin Ichiban
  By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Fri Dec 11 2015 10:26 pm

 > I'm drinking a Kirin Ichiban and working on ALLFIX, listening to Art Bell an
 > all the people in the house are asleep. Reminds me of 1991, when I started t
 > BBS out of my studio apartment in San Francisco. The BBS ran on a cast-off I
 > AT with 2 30 megabyte drives and a 2400 baud modem. 

 > My local corner store was the grocery store of choice; moving my car meant a
 > minute circuit looking for another parking place. So, the special on tall
 > Kirins at the grocery store became the drink of choice.

 > Good times. The BBS took off, by 1992 I was averaging 50-60 calls a day,
 > without offline readers.

I don't have any experience with Kirin Ichiban, but in '92' I was doing
something similar.  I lived in and ran my BBS from a studio appartment in the
South Bay.  I lived over a dive bar, and had to park on the street.  If I
wanted to park on the street close to my place, I had to pay the meter. 
Otherwise I had to park several blocks away.  

Even tho I had to be to work at 6:30am, I still remember staying up late,
working on my WWIV BBS.  Those were the days.

.... Nostalgia is OK, but it's not what it used to be.

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