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  • Kirin Ichiban

    From Poindexter Fortran to All on Friday, December 11, 2015 22:26:32
    I'm drinking a Kirin Ichiban and working on ALLFIX, listening to Art Bell and all the people in the house are asleep. Reminds me of 1991, when I started the BBS out of my studio apartment in San Francisco. The BBS ran on a cast-off IBM AT with 2 30 megabyte drives and a 2400 baud modem.

    My local corner store was the grocery store of choice; moving my car meant a 20 minute circuit looking for another parking place. So, the special on tall Kirins at the grocery store became the drink of choice.

    Good times. The BBS took off, by 1992 I was averaging 50-60 calls a day, without offline readers.
  • From Gryphon to Poindexter Fortran on Monday, July 25, 2016 11:44:56
    Re: Kirin Ichiban
    By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Fri Dec 11 2015 10:26 pm

    I'm drinking a Kirin Ichiban and working on ALLFIX, listening to Art Bell an all the people in the house are asleep. Reminds me of 1991, when I started t BBS out of my studio apartment in San Francisco. The BBS ran on a cast-off I AT with 2 30 megabyte drives and a 2400 baud modem.

    My local corner store was the grocery store of choice; moving my car meant a minute circuit looking for another parking place. So, the special on tall Kirins at the grocery store became the drink of choice.

    Good times. The BBS took off, by 1992 I was averaging 50-60 calls a day, without offline readers.

    I don't have any experience with Kirin Ichiban, but in '92' I was doing something similar. I lived in and ran my BBS from a studio appartment in the South Bay. I lived over a dive bar, and had to park on the street. If I wanted to park on the street close to my place, I had to pay the meter. Otherwise I had to park several blocks away.

    Even tho I had to be to work at 6:30am, I still remember staying up late, working on my WWIV BBS. Those were the days.

    ... Nostalgia is OK, but it's not what it used to be.