[Coco] Closing BBS

[Kandur]

Who remembers the The Coco Nut PBBS ?
http://tinyurl.com/lrecfrz

Kandur

Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 2:45:57 PM, you wrote:

> I started out learning to program the Coco with the help of other programmers
> on a local BBS.. The Wilmington-80 BBS. A two line BBS running on dual TRS-80
> Model IIIs with a "Coco Sig". It was run by one of our local Radio Shack's
> manager (also district manager), Mark Samwick. He eventually switched over to
> Tandy 1000s and in the mid to late 90s, switched to a "pay BBS" as many of the BBSs were doing at the time.
> We had another 4-line BBS sponsered by the local "New Hanover High School"
> and run by the electronics teacher. He allowed us to set up a Coco sig and
> Dean Holder (nickdanger on Delphi) and I were co-sysops for a few years until
> it finally went offline in the late 90s (the electronics teacher left teaching for other ventures).
> Had it not been for BBSs, I would have never gotten as far on the Coco as I did :-)
>  

> Bill Pierce
> "Today is a good day... I woke up" - Ritchie Havens
>  

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>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Batson <steve at batsonphotography.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc: Holidays in United States <sbatson01 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 23, 2014 4:33 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Closing BBS


> Very Cool. As slow as it was, the BBS days were fun.


> On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:


>> On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
> wrote:

>>> Chris, what port for telnet? I would log in with my Coco :-)

>> You can see all the ways to connect here:

>> http://bbs.fozztexx.com

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