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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ami-bbs
Message-ID: <37132@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Dec 90 12:34:11 GMT
References: <2771bd8c.ae8@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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ssteinbe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sarah Steinberg)
in <2771bd8c.ae8@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> writes:

	This post is on behalf of my amiga users group: We've been operating
	our bbs with an ibm pc-clone (8088),with a 60 meg HD, using the WWIV
	BBs software. When the BBS started about four years ago there was NO
	amiga BBS software.
	[...]

NOT true.  We started BBS-JC (using MSS' "BBS-PC" software) on an A1000 back
in late 1985, and MANY other BBS systems using the same software started about
the same time in California and elsewhere, all on A1000 systems.

I just checked my purchase records, and my personal copy of BBS-PC was
purchased on 17-March-1986 (over 4.75 years ago) and that was months after
starting BBS-JC (in Silicon Valley).  BBS-JC is still running using version
4.20 of BBS-PC; in 1988 our slogan was:

	"Serving the Amiga Community for over a quarter of a decade!"   :-)

AMIC (in Santa Rosa, CA) started about 1/2 year after BBS-JC, and FAUG
changed from its C64 to an A1000 running BBS-PC about the same time.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]