--- In cintari@yahoogroups.com, Bob <ROBO@...> wrote:
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> did you ever attend the Cintari meetings? I was there I guess from
> around 1990-1995 or so until we lost the meeting place.
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> I remember calling a few bbs's in california. remember those days,
> file uploads ratios to be able to download stuff, door games. haha
> and today the internet. although we did have a few bbs's that were
> linked with others around the country.. i forget what we called that.
> but alot of people were posting messages from different areas.
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> I was doing screen art of some of the bbs's , mainly with the IGS
> format that was used on the atari st computers. I did some for a bbs in
> california, and a few locally.. I did some for revelstone bbs,
> speedys , roundtable and the one in california. maybe some others, but
> i can't remember now. i still have atari st with alot of disks. whether
> any of it works or not , i don't know . I haven't used either in some time.
>
> Bob
> Cottonmouth
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> > Well, from Franklin, our choices were limited. They just got 25 cent
> > flat calling from Franklin, so you could make one call, and stay on
> > for hours. Cincy was straight long distance, and my dad ordered me not
> > to download anything. Yeah, remember the days of long distance
> > charges(they are pretty much a one era now with local and unlimited
> > long distance plans)? And my cheap dad had a 30 call local plan, so I
> > could only dial them once a day. I got my butt reamed quite a few
> > times for dialing H.O.L.E. excessively.
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IIRC, Dad and I attended a few of the Cintari meetings around 1986 or so. I
didn't realize you all went to 1995 with this gig. That was a long standing
group imho. We were selling/donating our Atari stuff around that time.