[Coco] Closing BBS

[Bill Pierce]

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:

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> On Dec 23, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
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>> Chris, what port for telnet? I would log in with my Coco :-)
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