[Coco] A nostalgic Coco BBS message

[Arthur Flexser]

Your wife should be thankful you weren't addicted to CompuServe, where the
bills can really mount up!  BBS long distance charges are small potatoes!

Art

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

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>  I would love to have a "dollar" for every hour I spent on a BBS... and
> all the money back that I spent on "long distance" calls to "out-of-town"
> BBS's. When my wife would see me at the Coco and the familiar "comm"
> program running (whichever I was using at the time), she would ask "how
> much is this one gonna cost us?"
> In the last years of my 1st Coco 3 (lost in the flooding of hurricane
> Floyd in '99), I had a 2nd telephone line just for my computers. I would
> still tie up the house line as I would have my PC on AOL (pre-internet) on
> one line and my Coco on a BBS on the other. My wife threatened to get her
> own "private line" just so she could use the phone!
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> Bill Pierce
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