Area code 612 (Minneapolis).

+1-612-92X-357X

• I called it The Curse BBS. It went up June 1984.
• Anyway, The it all halted to a sudden crash when the Secret Service came to my house in November of 1984 and confiscated all my equipment.
• The Curse went back up in December of 1986. In its early start it did surprisingly well since the large gap time from 1984 and 1986.
• Early in 1987 I put out a file called "Curse Ad". It was an animated advertisement of The Curse. It was pretty interesting.
• The summer of 1987 I moved so obviously The Curse bbs went down (again). I sold my Apple //e system and bought a Apple //gs system.
• Curse Wares went up in Feb 1988. Now there would be two boards. The Curse for the board and Curse Wares for the wares.

Now, most pirates had "Call these RAD boards..etc" on their title pages but I wanted something different. At the time Apple Bandit used "Kbye" when he finished chating or talking with people. So I came up with "K-Kool". And we put on the title page "Call These K-Kool boards..etc". In fact Dave (Darc
Deathe) stated "Watch how fast people start using that word". And amazingly people did. Too many people started to use the word that it got downgraded. It used to be a hip thing to say. I remember when Rabid Rasta put out his humorous text file called "The Real Pirate's Guide" in which he said "Real Pirates Don't Care About The Curse's K-Kool mods". It seems the creation of new and original mods might be getting out of hand (overkill). But, everyone seemed to enjoy it and The Curse prospered because of it. Plus, I had way too much fun creating/making them to stop.