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Kris O'Kelly, SysOp

It all started back in the good ol days beforee internet was big, not many people had a internet
email address in my town because AOL was by the hour & most computerusage was only
local if not a tiny LAN. Well, a friend of mine gave me a copy of a old dos terminal program
that supported ANSI, along with that he gave me a list of 40 numbers of BBSes that were
local in my area. Well after calling a few of them I thought it was something I started to enjoy,
heck I was meeting people that I never knew before! A friend gave me a copy of Remote
Access BBS software and from there the birth of Simsbury online happend! We were just
a bunch of friends calling in using my home number as the dialup. I had a program that told
the modem to answer if you pranked my home number with only one ring. That worked real
well for a long time! It was not to long until my family was talking about getting a internet
account with a local dialup ISP, it was that time when I got a copy of windows 95 and I
spent less time on the bbs since I had to boot from dos to run it and I had no internet
access in DOS. So after time I deleted my bbs off of my hard drive & Simsbury closed
down for a few years. A friend of mine messaged me online and told me about
SYNCHRONET a free windows based Telnet only bbs that has full internet e-mail
support. As I told you I am on a message area called fidonet, well back on the old RA Simsbury
I was on Fidonet as well, I had many fun times meeting people on the fidonet echo message
areas that I was really thinking about puting it back on my bbs. It was about a month into my BBS
being back online that I thought I would contact fidonet and ask for a new node number. All I gotta
say it is so nice to be back online as a SYSOP. simsbury is really growing now and I really hope it
keeps on growing! We are a BBS that mostly focases on the message bases but does not mind
everyone to upload a file or two that they think that can be a use to someone else! Simsbury Online
is ritch with history, we just hope you enjoy your stay here with us and I hope this bbs helps you bring back memorys of the good ol days of BBSing! Have a wonderful day!

Kris O'Kelly, Sysop