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On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:29:59 GMT, RIB <rib@rack.com> wrote:
>Those were the days Spike. A colleague and I each set one up early on. We could
>easily have swapped proggies at work using 5" floppies but it was MUCH more fun
>to do it via "the boards". This was before phone companies did package deals so
>our phone bills were always pretty high.
>
>I'll look forward to giving these a watch. Many thanks,
>
>RIB.
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Yeah ! I remember the days mate but will have to give them another
look while they are on HDD.
I didn't actually run a BBS, I didn't have enough software to share
back in them days, but I DO remember the high phone bills, and
downloading 1 song took about 20 mins... if I remember right.
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