Hi guys

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2020-02-02
Updated Node 4/158 Strontium 90 BBS (USA) has changed it's name to Card &
Claw BBS. Robbie advises the domain name and ports are now
cardandclaw.servebbs.com 8888/8889 - the nodelist and info
pack have been updated.

2020-01-31
Added Node 1/198 The Fat Dragon (USA) is working on getting connected to
fsxNet. Based in New York its admin Dan Cross is
experimenting with FTN and BBSing in 2020. For more on
his prject you can vist and read fat-dragon.org
Welcome Dan :)

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Updated nodelist and info pack will be hatched in the coming hours.

Best, Paul

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Updated Node 4/158 Strontium 90 BBS (USA) has changed it's name to Card & Added Node 1/198 The Fat Dragon (USA) is working on getting connected to

Glad to see both of you here with the rest of us.

ACME BBS-Member of fsxNet/WWIVNet/SciNet/SpookNet/FidoNet/MicroNet.

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On 02 Feb 2020, Avon said the following...

Added Node 1/198 The Fat Dragon (USA) is working on getting connected to
fsxNet. Based in New York its admin Dan Cross is
experimenting with FTN and BBSing in 2020. For more on

Welcome to fsxNet, Dan!

Best regards
Zip

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On 02 Feb 2020, Zip said the following...

On 02 Feb 2020, Avon said the following...

Added Node 1/198 The Fat Dragon (USA) is working on getting connected
fsxNet. Based in New York its admin Dan Cross is
experimenting with FTN and BBSing in 2020. For more

Welcome board Dan, Where abouts in NY are you? I am in Northern Westchester...

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On 02 Feb 2020 at 04:07p, Zip pondered and said...

On 02 Feb 2020, Avon said the following...

Added Node 1/198 The Fat Dragon (USA) is working on getting connected
fsxNet. Based in New York its admin Dan Cross is
experimenting with FTN and BBSing in 2020. For more

Welcome to fsxNet, Dan!

Thanks!

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On 02 Feb 2020 at 10:46a, Bucko pondered and said...

Welcome board Dan, Where abouts in NY are you? I am in Northern Westchester...

Down in the city; I've lived all over Manhattan. I actually spend most
of my time in Massachusetts outside of Boston, but the compute infrastructure remains in NYC. Most recently, I was on 150th St on the west side.

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On 03 Feb 2020, tenser said the following...

Down in the city; I've lived all over Manhattan. I actually spend most
of my time in Massachusetts outside of Boston, but the compute infrastructure remains in NYC. Most recently, I was on 150th St on the west side.

Nice, we are probably about 45 minutes to an hour away from each other.. If
you need anything let me know.. :)

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On 02 Feb 2020 at 03:58p, Bucko pondered and said...

On 03 Feb 2020, tenser said the following...

Down in the city; I've lived all over Manhattan. I actually spend mos of my time in Massachusetts outside of Boston, but the compute infrastructure remains in NYC. Most recently, I was on 150th St on th west side.

Nice, we are probably about 45 minutes to an hour away from each other.. If you need anything let me know.. :)

Nice that you guys are so (compared to some of us) close together :)

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On 02 Feb 2020 at 03:58p, Bucko pondered and said...

Nice, we are probably about 45 minutes to an hour away from each other.. If you need anything let me know.. :)

Thanks! I appreciate that.

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Down in the city; I've lived all over Manhattan. I actually spend most infrastructure remains in NYC. Most recently, I was on 150th St on
the west side.

Hell's Kitchen? :)


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On 03 Feb 2020 at 05:43p, Spectre pondered and said...

Down in the city; I've lived all over Manhattan. I actually spend mos infrastructure remains in NYC. Most recently, I was on 150th St on the west side.

Hell's Kitchen? :)

About a hundred blocks too far north. Hell's Kitchen is on the west side
in the 40s; 150th where I am is north Harlem. Further west, north of City College, is Sugar Hill (if you're familiar with e.g. "Rapper's Delight"
by the Sugar Hill Gang).

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On 03 Feb 2020, Avon said the following...

Nice that you guys are so (compared to some of us) close together :)

Years back, in my area we used to have sysOp get togethers, as I am sure everyone else did also. We would meet at a bar if the sysOp's were of age and drink and make fun of users etc.. Even today there are a ton of us close to each other or within an hour to hour and half. Tenser, and Maskreet are
within a 1 hour raidius of me. I believe there are a few others also.. You don't think about it until you see the taglines and say dang this stuff is still pretty popular around here..

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On 03 Feb 2020, Bucko said the following...

Years back, in my area we used to have sysOp get togethers, as I am sure everyone else did also. We would meet at a bar if the sysOp's were of
age and drink and make fun of users etc.. Even today there are a ton of

Same. I met several really nice folks from the Atlanta net back in the '90s.

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On 03 Feb 2020 at 06:33p, Bucko pondered and said...

Years back, in my area we used to have sysOp get togethers, as I am sure everyone else did also. We would meet at a bar if the sysOp's were of
age and drink and make fun of users etc.. Even today there are a ton of
us close to each other or within an hour to hour and half. Tenser, and Maskreet are within a 1 hour raidius of me. I believe there are a few others also.. You don't think about it until you see the taglines and

Nice :)

Yes I also met up with with fellow sysops back in the 90s when *(at that
time) there were more BBS up and running. Sadly in New Zealand I think
there's only a handful of us. While Sneaky is 2-3 hours up the road from me
and I know of another Fidonet system in Christchurch.. it's a bit of a
distance to travel... so if you are only 60 mins away from each other than that's grand.

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On 04 Feb 2020 at 01:33p, Avon pondered and said...

Yes I also met up with with fellow sysops back in the 90s when *(at that time) there were more BBS up and running. Sadly in New Zealand I think there's only a handful of us. While Sneaky is 2-3 hours up the road from me and I know of another Fidonet system in Christchurch.. it's a bit of a distance to travel... so if you are only 60 mins away from each other
than that's grand.

In fairness, I'm in Massachusetts so often it can just as often
be more like three hours. :-)

One of the things that was really neat during the BBS heyday was
that it was so local. You could meet people in your area who used
many of the same systems that you did. That was kind of cool.

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On 03 Feb 2020, Captain Obvious said the following...

Same. I met several really nice folks from the Atlanta net back in the '90s.

Used to know a few from Atlanta, Cregan (Andy Schaefer) and another guy can't remember his handle but he was a Cop, Larry something..

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On 04 Feb 2020, Avon said the following...

Nice :)

Yes I also met up with with fellow sysops back in the 90s when *(at that time) there were more BBS up and running. Sadly in New Zealand I think there's only a handful of us. While Sneaky is 2-3 hours up the road from me and I know of another Fidonet system in Christchurch.. it's a bit of a distance to travel... so if you are only 60 mins away from each other
than that's grand.

It is nice to know.. One of these days I will bother all of them and do a get together to exchange hints and tips.. LOL I miss the User Group days!!

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It is nice to know.. One of these days I will bother all of them and do a get together to exchange hints and tips.. LOL I miss the User Group
days!!

Oooooh I have some dodgy memories of UserGroup days.. used to be a lot of strange, and I mean strange people around. Some of them just didn't seem to get it (anything) either... A bit like a bunch of low grade morons... Still plenty of good times were had too... I have no idea where most of those people are now.

Spec


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03 Feb 20 18:33, you wrote to Avon:

Nice that you guys are so (compared to some of us) close together :)

Years back, in my area we used to have sysOp get togethers, as I am sure everyone else did also.

Of course we did :). We also did hard drive throwing competitions at these meetings (no
living hard drives were harmed, they were already dead when they crashed on the asphalt).

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On 04 Feb 2020 at 02:24p, Spectre pondered and said...

Oooooh I have some dodgy memories of UserGroup days.. used to be a lot of strange, and I mean strange people around. Some of them just didn't
seem to get it (anything) either... A bit like a bunch of low grade morons... Still plenty of good times were had too... I have no idea
where most of those people are now.

This. So much this.

Back when I ran a dialup BBS, I was a node on the local Fidonet net as
well as a local "Fantasy and RPG-oriented" net called "PhantaNet." I
went to one of the PhantaNet gatherings and it was just bizarre; calling
some of these people "low-grade morons" is an insult to low-grade morons.

'Course, I was young and it was mildly social, so I went. At one of the meetings, things were running longer than expected, so I called my mom
(I was in high school at the time) to ask if I could stay longer; I'll
never forget that I was told to use the phone in the bedroom of the guy
who's house the meeting was at, and the dildo on the bedside table.

It was all very ... surreal.

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On 04 Feb 2020, Spectre said the following...

Oooooh I have some dodgy memories of UserGroup days.. used to be a lot of strange, and I mean strange people around. Some of them just didn't
seem to get it (anything) either... A bit like a bunch of low grade morons... Still plenty of good times were had too... I have no idea
where most of those people are now.

Spec

THANK YOU!!! At least now I can honestly say I wasn't strange feeling that way!! I was in a great group from the Bronx, we did a lot, but there was only like 4 normal people in the group! I think I was 1 of them! The rest?!?!?
Hmmmm No comement.. LOL You are right though, good times were had by all.. Especially when I did a telecom demo by calling the groups BBS with the PResidents cell phone attached to a 1200baud modem on an Amiga 500 and was connected to the board for almost an hour! Mind you this was before unlimited plans in fact he paid I believe it was .69 cents a minute for that call! LOL
He wasn't happy when his bill came in...

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On 04 Feb 2020, Oli said the following...

Of course we did :). We also did hard drive throwing competitions at
these meetings (no
living hard drives were harmed, they were already dead when they crashed on the asphalt).

LOL Love it.. That comment reminds me of a time when I had a few people over the house from the BBS and we were in my man cave (2nd floor bedroom) I had
all of my stuff setup and was testing a computer I had just picked up used
from an ad on CompuServe (That tells you how long ago this was). .Well here
we are drinking beer eating pizza and having a good old time. I turn this
thing on and it boots no problems (my first PC, I was a Commodore Head at the time) it boots into Dos 3.3 I think, we were going to upgrade it to Dos 5.0 which one of the guys brought with him and install Windows on it. I was all excited, after about 10 minutes the computer shuts down. I reboot and it
craps out in the middle of booting, I think if I weren't drunk the next thing that happened wouldn't have happened. I got pissed opened the windows and
threw it out the window into my Driveway! The case broke up, the motherboard split but that 5.25 floppy and 10 meg 5.25 HD were fine! Jeez!!

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