X-Received: by 2002:ae9:f503:: with SMTP id o3mr11693282qkg.331.1614774029254; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 04:20:29 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:aca:ef84:: with SMTP id n126mr6990072oih.109.1614774028658; Wed, 03 Mar 2021 04:20:28 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: pgh.opinion Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 04:20:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=71.60.112.175; posting-account=OWIy_QoAAABO_A21AhOVUVDOPDVBvPpg NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.60.112.175 References: <60ad5b53-4829-4817-98c9-1ba181ba4bb6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <060859b7-cf36-421f-b805-94d245d7a8a1n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: BBS's, Remember them? From: Clay Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:20:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 57 Xref: csiph.com pgh.opinion:15 On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 3:54:47 PM UTC-5, Michael Trew wrote: > On 2/3/2020 3:54 PM, clay.za...@gmail.com wrote:=20 > > Stu died in 2012. A lot of us 'old' guys remember him and the rest of P= itNET (129).=20 > >=20 > > I actually have been archiving a lot of the old BBS stuuf the past few = weeks for some odd reason.=20 > >=20 > > Feeling old myself I guess and want to see the stuff from my younger da= ys.=20 > >=20 > > Pit Row, Pit Row BBS, The 600 M.P.H. BBS (aka Duct Tape), THE 600 M.P.H= . BBS (AKA DUCTTAPE)=20 > > (1982-1999)=20 > >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 3:44:59 PM UTC-5, joseph.al...@gmail.c= om wrote:=20 > >> On Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at 12:08:11 PM UTC-4, Stu Turk wrote:=20 > >>> jrl007 wrote in message=20 > >>> news:MBbx8.4154$vX.2195@rwcrnsc53...=20 > >>>=20 > >>>> Any left in the area?=20 > >>>=20 > >>> There are three FidoNet BBS' still operating:=20 > >>> BBS Name Phone No. Sysop=20 > >>> Up In James' Attic 412-431-2891 James Walton=20 > >>> Politically Incorrect 412-766-0743 Bob Westerman=20 > >>> SoundingBoard 412-621-4604 Stu Turk=20 > >>>=20 > >>> Other FidoNet boards in the Pittsburgh area have either shut down=20 > >>> or are not answering lately. I will be shutting SoundingBoard down=20 > >>> soon due to lack of callers. Also, we are disconnected from the main= =20 > >>> FidoNet backbone since the board acting as our local Hub (Wayfarer's= =20 > >>> Inn) shut down last year.=20 > >>=20 > >> I know this thread is totally old, but I was taking a trip down memory= lane and came across the name of Stu Turk this morning. I'm sure he doesn'= t remember me as I was just a kid with a PC at the time - but he was a grea= t mentor to me with BBSs and Fidonet. Anyone know an e-mail address for him= ? I just wanted to say thanks to him some 25 years later.=20 > >>=20 > >> Regards,=20 > >>=20 > >> Joe.=20 > > > Are any of the local BBS's online still? Haven't signed into one in=20 > years, but I still have a 56k modem. Not sure about local dial up but check this out for online BBS using Telnet= . https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/