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  • Remembering Willie Wilson

    From Michael Sprague@1:2320/100 to Daryl Stout on Fri Apr 25 18:39:02 2014
    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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  • From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to Michael Sprague on Thu May 5 15:41:02 2016

    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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  • From Marc Lewis@1:2320/100 to Allen Prunty on Tue May 17 13:53:02 2016
    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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  • From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to Marc Lewis on Wed May 18 23:14:02 2016
    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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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Allen Prunty on Thu May 19 02:48:02 2016
    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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  • From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Thu May 19 12:22:02 2016
    )\/(ark

    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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  • From Marc Lewis@1:2320/100 to Allen Prunty on Fri May 20 12:00:02 2016
    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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  • From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to Marc Lewis on Sun May 22 23:29:02 2016
    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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