[kragen]

right, late 80s. where i lived at the time (albuquerque or socorro) the local calling area was a whole city or group of nearby towns, but if you were to drive in any direction for an hour you'd be out in the middle of the wilderness, so it doesn't sound like your situation was actually different

[ghaff]

At the time I was in a reasonably far out suburb and there really weren’t local BBSs of note. Certainly not wilderness but close to an hour out of Boston. May have been a couple of local BBSs but they’d have been one or two line operations.

[kragen]

yeah, almost all were one- or two-line operations in albuquerque