(C> II, CVU, VT Education System
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"Champlain Valley Union High School (CVU) started its bulletin
board during the 1984-1985 school year, running RBBS on a dual (5
1/4") floppy system, with a single 300 baud HAYES external modem
on the 484-2110 number. The original SYSOP was Brad Portelance,
with help from John King and Steve Padnos. Craig Lyndes was the
faculty advisor. I became a SYSOP during the 1985-1986 school
year, and was the "Chief Sysop" for '85-'86 and '86-87. There were
several other "associate" SYSOPs during that time, including
Andre' Mehta, Steve Padnos, Dan LeClaire, Hemant Rao, Cathy Young,
Liberty Joyce, John King, Jim Lawson, Chris Blaise, and Jessica
Dione. After I graduated in '87 I believe that Jim or Chris took
over, though don't much remember as I was going to college out of
state. After the first year of maintaining and fixing bugs with
the RBBS source (it was written in BASIC and was some of the
hairiest code I've ever seen) we held some fund raisers and was
able to get the money to buy TBBS, a ten meg hard drive (an
inCider, if I remember), and a couple extra lines. I think we
eventually upgraded to a couple of 1200 baud modems too by the
time I left. I also wrote a proposal (with help from others in the
CVU Computer Club) that we submitted to IBM (they have a chip
manufacturing plant in Essex Junction VT) and were awarded a grant
for $3000 in late 1985 or early 1986. This was used to upgrade the
software and to buy more phone lines to extend our reach:
Hinesburgh (where CVU is located) was a long distance call for
pretty much everyone except Hinesburgh residents, so we purchased
Burlington numbers (which weren't LD) that rang through to
Hinesburgh. I don't know which year the BBS finally disappeared. I
would expect that it was as late as 1994 or 1995." - Tom Emerson

Phone   : 802-482-2110
Place   : HINESBURG, VT
Years   : 1985 - 1995
Sysop   : Craig Lyndes

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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