From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.pcboard

Ah, ol'PC Board. I ran a three node one for a few years back in the 80's.
I remember well "Terry" at Salt Air in Ogden, UT giving me lots of help. I
ran a rather large one at the time in the Seattle area. A whole 400 megs
worth of downloads on 3 386 machines running Novell software. Quite a set
up back then. I received two write ups in a paper and PC Mag back then.
Can't say I miss it since it started as a neat hobby and finished as a
monster I couldn't handle anymore. I suppose I had around 300 registered callers and an untold number of visitors. Not a good thing to run if you
are married and have an empty nest, unless of course your spouse is a
Co-Sysop.

Congrats to all of you that stuck with it and it's migration on to the Internet. I haven't seen a PC Board on the Net yet however. I would
imagine it would be about the same amount of time and effort to run. I
learned a lot.

Because my location was Bellevue, Washington, I was only a mile from Microsoft's Headquarters. I would hold a monthly "Beer and Bytes" meeting
of my members at local pizza joints. We would get together and share
software and other bits of computer info. One night while we were deeply involved in copying software, a group of nerdy guys walks in and ask what we are doing. I asked them who they were and they said just customers but they all worked for Microsoft. "Shut it down guys". They never did figure out
just what we were doing. Oh those 1.2mb floppy diskettes (Dysan was the
best).

Nuff said.

Rich
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