Some years back Alan Zisman who lives in that area was
on the Fido Win95 echo.

I found Alan's website zisman.ca, he certainly sounds interesting, I don't think our paths have crossed in the past. I moved to this area about 15 years ago, I grew up and went to school on the Canadian prarie (Saskatchewan), so my roots only go so deep.

From the website, it sounds like Alan may still be active on LowEndMac.com.

A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years. I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)


Chris/akacastor

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A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.

Dallas is still RC17.

I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)

I don't know Dallas peronally either. Like so many I have conversed with in the nets I wouldn't know him if I bumped into him somewhere.

Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

Times have changed but those were the days. :)

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Dallas Hinton, of
The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.

Dallas is still RC17.

That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!

I don't know Dallas peronally either. Like so many I
have conversed with in the nets I wouldn't know him if I
bumped into him somewhere.

I don't remember many names, but back in 1995 there was a "Region17Con" in Edmonton that I attended - I wonder if I may have briefly met Dallas then. I remember that Scott Dudley (author of Maximus BBS software) was a guest speaker, I have fond memories of a couple of other sysops but I am blanking on names now.

Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick. I think I heard he closed the last public dialup node in recent years?

Times have changed but those were the days. :)

I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line, with a distinctive ring # for the BBS). There was a 2-line BBS the next town over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)


Chris/akacastor

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Dallas is still RC17.

That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!

Yes, Dallas's BBS started arounf 1989.

Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

Thinking more on this now. I was thinking of Basic'ly Computers that has 6 or more lines. That was Bob Satti's BBS.

Dallas's BBS was quite large too, he did have two, maybe three lines at one time.

I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick. I think I heard he closed the last public dialup node in recent years?

Yes, it wasn't long ago but he still runs a node and has a large collection of fido areas from times past.

Times have changed but those were the days. :)

I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line, with a distinctive ring # for the BBS). There was a 2-line BBS the next town over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)

I had two lines I could run the BBS/mailer on but one was using our home phone line. I used that to call out to other BBSs or nodes when the BBS was busy. :)

Back in those days each line and modem cost big $$. I never had a multiline setup myself.

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A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas
Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for
many years. I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning
in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)

Dallas is still on Fido. He and his wife (?) moderate the "English as a
second language" echo.



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