Vaxbuster

Hi all. Most people know me as VaxBuster. I'm the tall redhead from 412,
aka Pittsburgh. I started off doing the compuserve and BBS thing in the
early 80's.  By 1985, I was calling probably about 80 BBS's a day
including Harvester, Chat Thing (later Telerama ISP), Piratesburgh, etc
from my TRS-80 CoCo II. At first it was 300 baud with a radio shack
"direct connect" modem. I discovered codelines("get ready to scribe...."),
VMBs, voice bridges(was the BIG one in Maryland? 301 NPA?) , 950's, etc.  
I arrived in the phreaking scene somewhat late(late 80's?) but
nevertheless had a lot of fun.  I did the IRC +hack/#hack thing for a long
time, probably the most active from 1990-1995. I was active in the con
scene, namely Summercon(since 91ish), Pumpcon's(which I ran a couple
times), HOPEs(in NYC), DefCon, amongst others. At some point, I've been
involved in H,P, and C(amiga software.) For me, my childhood years were
defined by computers.  Things like BBS's, movies like WarGames, TV shows
like Whiz Kids (CBS 82/83), etc fueled my interest and passion.  A friend
(michael s) and I wrote some BBS software called "Falcon's Nest BBS" in
1984-1990 in AmigaBasic, later C, which ran off-hours out of his parents
home.  BBS's for me were the beginning foundations of community life in
computers.  The passion that I had for computers could now be shared with
people who I normally wouldn't have met, wouldn't have talked to, without
the help of BBS's.  The environment of which BBS's created are unlike any
other I've seen on the Internet today.  The communities are
smaller(although fidonet expanded them), more personal, and local.  I have
to admit I'm a sucker for nostalgia, and this BBS documentary project
helped remind me of times, places, and people from long ago.  I still IRC
occassionally (#315 on efnet), still have my Amiga running, and I'm still
attending cons. Not enuf room but:
#hack,RA,ntstriker,okinawa,dynastar,#315
etrigan/sw/sm,telmnstr,icom,redpantz. vaxb@adelphia.net