[Coco] A nostalgic Coco BBS message

[Bill Pierce]

Art, in "hindsight", I am glad I could never afford "CompuServe" or "Delphi"(I didn't even have a checking account in those days) as I would've probably ended up divorced and in the poor house LMAO
My wife truely understood the term "Computer Widow".

I did have a friend who had accounts with both CI$ and Delphi and I would load up my Coco system, take it to his house and we would do "all-nighters" downloading stuff and copying it to disk. He would be downloading to his Ken-Ton system, copy it over to floppy, I would then make copies with my Coco while he started the next download. We "consumed mass quantities" of beer and pizza on those nights :-)

 

 


Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Sep 10, 2015 1:31 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] A nostalgic Coco BBS message


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:

>
>  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!
>
>
>
>
> Bill Pierce
> "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it
won't stop going, no way to
> slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
>
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>
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