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 Message 56 
 Michael Borthwick to Mike Dippel 
 Re: Hi, new node here :) 
 31 Mar 23 13:19:36 
 
TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48
MSGID: 954:895/48 af7ca09a
REPLY: 954:895/1 38aba5f3
TZUTC: 1100
 MD> I started back in the days of DOS.  Had 4 phone lines hooked into it, one
 MD> connected to a 
 MD> an ISP so I had internet access. Of course, it was via a modem so it was
 MD> very slow.  But 
 MD> I had a lot of games and users flocked to it because it was such a novel
 MD> thing back then.

Yes my first modem was a 14.4k - brand new technology only just released. It
wasn't long after I got my first 1x cd-rom drive. Was on DOS 6.2 with Windows
3.1 but mostly used DOS.

 MD> 
 MD> I wish I had the activity now that I did back then.  I can't even get my
 MD> family to login 
 MD> now :(

Ah can't blame them, only the die hard use BBS these days. It's heaps of fun
and you get to chat to people you would never reach on facebook or reddit. At
least with BBS and FTN only people that want to be here are here, and the
trolls and other horrible people are too busy on twitter to bother us here :)

... There are two types of people; those who finish what they start and

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