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Twin City Citadels -- Short History
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all numbers area code (612)
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<updated 4/23/85>
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xxxxxxxx SuperComp (acting sysop -- Hue, Sr.)
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SuperComp, a Sperry personal computer club, originally ordered Citadel 2.10
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from CUG through the instigation of Ray Schneider (aka The White Knight aka
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The Conductor). Brought up on a 1655 with an embedded Z80B with 8" disks on
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Thanksgiving of '83, the system experienced instant success and quickly became
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difficult to get on, despite the fact that the number was never advertised on
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local boards. Despite the fact that it was always run on an "open" basis,
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serious topics were usually the order of the day, and the digressive, silly
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rooms that appeared were actually viewed with relief!
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Current status: Down due to severe disk drive problems. Will not come back up
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unless the system gets new drives (doubtful) or it is successfully moved to a
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PDP-11.
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431-1107 Test System (syslob -- Hue, Jr.)
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Test System, running under MS-DOS 2.13 on a Zenith Z100, came up in the fall
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of '84. True to its name, it's a System that one and all are invited to bang
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away at, and it frequently crashes, due to programmer incompetency and strange
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compiler bugs and the tricks of the gremlins. Nearly functionally equivalent
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to the 8 bit TC Citadels, it has not been in heavy use until lately due to the
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extremely erratic hours it keeps (Hue, Jr. uses the computer for his own
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BBSing and programming). Furthermore, someday it will come down when the sysop
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gets a job and moves out, and it's doubtful that he'll bring it back up. But
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he might.
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Current status: Erratic up times, subject to crashes and sysoporial whims.
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Very little serious talk, users encouraged to try to bring system down.
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432-7668 Dog House (sysop -- Lucifer)
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The Dog House came up about a month after Test System came up, and is also
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hosted on a Z100, although this time on the 8 bit CP/M-85 side (8085 chip).
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While suffering a number of disk problems due to the unclean environment it
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was run in, Lucifer's BBS became very popular for mostly light talk. In
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January of '85, Dog House became the first TC Citadel to have both 300/1200
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access. In about February of '85, it went 'controlled' (for lack of a better
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word) -- new users were still welcome, but they now had to provide names and
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voice #s before they could use the system.
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Current status: Up and down like a yo-yo. Lucifer is out of town on a
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business trip as of this writing, so we don't know precisely what the problem
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is, but it appears to be a disk problem again.
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423-5048 Terminal Station (sysop -- The Conductor)
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About a week after Dog House went up, the Terminal Station joined it, hosted
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also on a Z100 on the CP/M-85 side. It instantly became a rather dichotomous
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system, hosting both highly serious discussions of Theology, SDI, School
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Prayer, etc., as well as incredibly ruggish subjects, and digression became a
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raging plague on the system, leading to a room named Digression. It followed
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Dog House in getting 300/1200 access, and has the honor of being the only
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system that ran a disk so long that when it failed, you could see through it
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completely! Terminal Station is an open system.
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Current status: Down with a disk controller problem. Projected up date:
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unknown.
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459-8095 Just another Citadel (sysop -- Stallion)
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Just Another Citadel went up on about 85Apr12, and was instantly welcome due
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to the fact that SuperComp and Terminal Station were down, and Dog House was
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unstable. It seems to be off to a fine start, and is an open system, being run
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on a Digilog 1500 under CP/M-80.
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******** Cedar Grove Baptist (sysop -- Bryce)
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This system is not yet open, and when it does open, will only be available to
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members of Cedar Grove Baptist church. It is going to be run on a Sperry PC
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(IBM clone) under MS-DOS 2.11.
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