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User:John Bone

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Got my first micro computer in 1980, a TRS-80 Mk2 with 8k ram, and a tape cassette toured our city's local librarys giving demos of a microcomputer & the basic language. I helped to form the CTUK!Activist network, across the UK with the help of David Tebutt the then editor of the UK's PCW magazine (Personal Computer World). Helped grow the British Association of Hobby Computer Clubs (BACC) in 1986 "borrowed" a Sperry IBM PC Clone and Joined the European network of Fidonet BBS Sysops and ran a online dial-up Computer Bulletin Board (300/300, 1200/1200 & 2400/2400 baud) using the Fido Software and later the Opus software suites. BBS online between 1986 to 1998 ("Log-on-the-Tyne BBS" North England, UK (Zone 2 Net 256 Node 17 = Fideonet 2:256/17) Helped run the BACC's "ClubSpot" Teletext pages on the BT Prestel online service.