I understand what you are saying about the "vanilla" phone line. Happily,phone service here in the Pittsburgh area is still good. About Willie Wilson,I believer he was the founder of the Abled Echo, some time around 1984.

Michael SpragueM J Sprague

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I have been checking as many dial-up bulletin boards as I am able to find. am pleased to find the ABLED echo conference as I remember a former moderator named Willie Wilson. I had sat down with him many times, in

fact,

for a beer and had visited his apartment, where he explained the reason that he had no need to replace the burned-out light bulbs.

I remember Willie and I think I remember you too.

Great to reconnect with old friends.

Allen
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Hello Allen.

<On 05May2016 15:29 Allen Prunty (1:2320/100) wrote a message to Michael Sprague regarding Remembering Willie Wilson >

I have been checking as many dial-up bulletin boards as I am able
to find. I am pleased to find the ABLED echo conference as I
remember a former moderator named Willie Wilson. I had sat down
with him many times, in fact, for a beer and had visited his
apartment, where he explained the reason that he had no need to
replace the burned-out light bulbs.

I remember Willie and I think I remember you too.

Great to reconnect with old friends.

Allen, haven't seen you around in ages! I'm glad to see you're still around FidoNet. Stop by sometime.

Best regards,
Marc
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Allen, haven't seen you around in ages! I'm glad to see you're still around FidoNet. Stop by sometime.

Had to do a double take on this as there are two Marc/Mark Lewises...

Double the fun eh?

I will drop by... trying to raise the LiveWire out of the ashes
(Literally) last time I had it online the BBS Computer burned my whole
home office room.

Allen
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MarcL>> Allen, haven't seen you around in ages! I'm glad to see you're
MarcL>> still around FidoNet. Stop by sometime.

Had to do a double take on this as there are two Marc/Mark Lewises...

nope, there's only one of each and both are distinctly different from each other ;)

Double the fun eh?

not as much now as there used to be when there were numerous others in the network... at one time there were at least four or five in Z1, i think a couple in Z2 and i know of one that was in Z3...

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Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

I had to look at the other Marc's signature for a minute and wonder
where the monkey went. Bad thing about having a brain injury is I
literally feel like that crazy start up noise in Windows 95 when I first
wake up.

Whirrrr....rrrr..rrr ding ding ding then maybe all the other programs
will load while the rest of the system slows to a crawl.

Allen
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Hello Allen.

<On 18May2016 23:06 Allen Prunty (1:2320/100) wrote a message to Marc Lewis regarding Remembering Willie Wilson >

I will drop by... trying to raise the LiveWire out of the ashes (Literally) last time I had it online the BBS Computer burned my
whole home office room.

Oh my goodness! What on earth happened? Did the computer actually catch fire? Hopefully nobody was hurt!

Best regards,
Marc

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Oh my goodness! What on earth happened? Did the computer actually catch

fire?

Hopefully nobody was hurt!

Not sure if it was the computer or the monitor... (sorry it took me so
long to reply my .qwk door isn't cooperating).

It was an old pentium system that ran the BBS. I had another newserver
set up on a mac mini (lost it too). Days before it went up the hard
drive started to make death threat noises and i was going to upgrade the system. It went up whiles I was at work... thankfully my neighbor saved
my cats.

At the time I was working crazy double shifts at the Jail... and I just
didn't have the time, energy or drive to put it back together.

Now I am disabled so I literally have all the time in the world to set
things back up. Problem is I'm limited as to how much quality computer
time I get. It triggers nausea, vertigo and headaches.

Allen


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