Coastal Carolina Net
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Also listed as: Wilmington**80 TBBS

"My board was up for 13 years, from 1983-1996. It originally
started on a TRS-80 Model III running 'The Green Machine"
public-domain software written in BASIC. After a couple of years I
moved to TBBS software for the TRS-80, and then migrated to the
MS-DOS version of TBBS around 1990. 80-MICRO magazine highlighted
my board in one of it's issues as the only one it knew of that was
being operated from within a Radio Shack store. I was the manager
of a Tandy Computer Center here in Wilmington at the time. Of
course, the corporation didn't know that I was using some of their
phone lines for a BBS, so when the magazine came out, I was
awaiting my forced retirement phone call. It never came. But my
BBS started getting calls from all over the world requesting
support for Tandy computer products. I tried to answer all that
came in, but it definitely showed that Radio Shack needed to set
up a corporate BBS. I suggested it at one of our annual meetings,
but the idea fell on deaf ears. I know I have that huge list of
TRS-80 based BBSs from 80-Micro around here somewhere. I left
Tandy's employment in 1987 and moved the board to my home. I was
Wilmington's first BBS, and had hoped to be it's last, but the
Internet came along and stole the attentions of most of my BBS's
adult members, leaving me with just the troublesome teens whose
parents wouldn't let them on the Internet. I decided that it was
no longer worth the time and money to keep it going, so I pulled
the plug. Now I devote my hobby time to maintaining web sites." -
Mark Samwick

Phone   : 910-763-1850
Place   : WILMINGTON, NC
Years   : 1983 - 1996
Sysop   : Mark Samwick
Software: TBBS

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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