-=> Mike Powell wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 > LOVED Intelec though! Very thoughtful people, for the most part.
 > Oh - and very ACTIVE!

 MP> Part of the reason I liked it was that there was not another Intelec
 MP> node in my area, and most of the boards I was on networks with did not
 MP> carry it, either.  It gave my users and me a different group of people
 MP> to talk to.  :)

Yep! Virtual Dimension was 'the' BBS in town and the masters! No, they
didn't have Fido - but they did have local threads and they had a 
satillite DOWNLOAD ONLY of SOME usenet stuff - but you know that's 
not really for communication. :-)

Then The Fridge started and they brought in Intelec and they helped
start a regional list called VOL_NET (Tennessee being the Volunteer
state). There were BBS's in other towns that would have been LD
for me in Tennessee but also in northern Alabama and Mississippi
and I was suddenly communicating with them too! A whole new
world opened up to me and my wife and I took our kids to
Lexington (only about an hour away, but you know back then
the roads weren't all four lane like today - you didn't have
a GPS - etc.) and met a very nice couple from a BBS there.

We met at McDonald's where the kids could play and so the 
wife could loan me Insomnia - the Stephen King book. Turns
out he was the sysop there, but of course back then you held
your cards a little close to the vest - kinda like now when
you sell or buy something on FB and you meet the person in
a public place. :-)



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