[Coco] Warren Hrach & Oceanside BBS

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 16 June 2007, Dean Leiber wrote:

>The other day, I was looking for various OS-9/CoCo related stuff on

>the internet and I thought I'd look up Warren Hrach since I hadn't

>talked to him in a very long time. For those who don't know, warren

>used to run the Oceanside BBS (also a Fido node) in Oceanside Ca.

>Warren was very active in the RIBBS/FIDO community and even

>distributed RIBBS for OS-9 and OSK (yes there was a version for

>OSK!). During the MM/1 days he also sold MM/1 systems on the west

>coast (I bought a system from him) and found him always helpful and

>friendly.  Sadly, I found that warren had passed away in 2005.

>

>WARREN CLARENCE HRACH

>May 22, 1923-March 13, 2005

>

>Warren Clarence Hrach, 81, of San Diego died March 13. He was born in

>Cleveland and was a systems engineer for H.K. Ferguson. He served in

>the Army Air Forces during World War II.

>

>Survivors include his daughters, Virginia Murphy and Mary Murphy of

>San Diego and Patricia Davis of San Clemente; sons, Gregory Hrach of

>San Diego and James Hrach of Columbus, Ohio; and eight grandchildren.

>

>

Thanks.  Its always a bit sad when 'one of us' passes.  I recall the name from 
a decade plus back but never could afford the LD charges to go wandering 
around the BBS's of the day.  Now of course we have the freedom plan, but I 
can recall one months LD bill just to get to a delphi access point running 
over 100$.  Now I don't even have a modem, and the serial ports are busy 
running heyu and such.

-- 
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