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My name is Ed. I live in the Michiana area (northern In./southern Mi.). My job title is Floor Inspector at a small machine shop. Like alot of people, I did not go to school to work in a factory. In fact, I majored in Culinary Arts (the art of cooking). I've had a few jobs in kitchens with duties ranging from bussing tables all the way up to assistant head cook. I've even worked in a couple of small town bakeries, one of which I was assistant head baker. The problem with going to school for culinary arts, you either go to the right school or you don't ... of course I picked the wrong school. I also used to operate a BBS (remember those?). My bulletin board originally went up under the name Slow Poke BBS as it was being ran on an Atari 800XL with the Rambo 256K RAM upgrade ... imagine that, an 8-bit machine with 256K of RAM! Hard drives were very expensive then, so most of my board existed on floppy drives, 4 Indus GT's to be exact. Oh yeah, we can't forget that speedy Atari SX212 1200 baud modem. I ran the board using a hacked copy of BBS EXPRESS!. When I say hacked, I mean that the program originally was supposed to only run a 300baud modem, but I figured out how to increase that speed by messing with a patch. It was running for about a year before I switched the board over to an Atari 520STe with the 4meg RAM upgrade and a 14.4K modem. I liked BBS EXPRESS! so much that I found an ST version of it and it continued with very little change (I did change the name of the board to EXPRESSO! Cafe) for about another year. By then I was getting tired of not being able to find support for the nearly dead Atari computer, so I once again switched it. I put it on a 386SX-20mhz using Renegade BBS. I also changed the name to GoInG bOnKeRs!. Too bad Renegade was unstable as I was getting hacked on an average of 1-2 times a week, so I changed the software over to TriBBS which was ok, but still very limited by my standards. It ran for another 3 years before I decided to take it down due to the increase of interest people were showing in the internet. I knew alot of other SysOps who kept their boards running as long as possible, but I didn't want to see my board die a slow death like they did. Why not take it down while still on top..... Anyways, my other likes are camping, golf, video games (playstation mainly), bike riding, playing RPG's (mainly AD&D, RoldeMaster, & Star Frontiers), and a few other things. |
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