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by **ymenar** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:37:20

> I don't remember a lot about how the service worked, but I do remember the
> $300 Phone Bills :)

I remember fondly somebody, who was lucky to be in the local area nearby the
Papy design group, therefore being able to race all day without a large
phone bill. I think he ended up helping them testing. Anyway, with today's
phone plans it would surely had been different. You can get specific
numbers for unlimited hours, at charges much less than the exhorbitants
bills (in the thousands per month) some people had.

Nowhere except local LANs have the quality of racing been equal to it.

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by **Larr** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:44:38

Waves Hand...

I don't remember a lot about how the service worked, but I do remember the
$300 Phone Bills :)

-Larry

by **Mitch_** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:42:04

> Waves Hand...

> I don't remember a lot about how the service worked, but I do remember the
> $300 Phone Bills :)

> -Larry

>> Hard to believe its been 10 years since my first online racing
>> experience. I was wondering how many old-timers that still follow
>> this group were testers on Hawaii? A show of hands and handles.
>> I went by MR.V

>> Tim yuhasz

I think I started on Hawaii in Mar-Apr 96' as naman. Are you talking about
the beta of the beta?.

Heh, $300 was a baby crack habit ;) I doubled that every month for 5-6
months. Nearly $4k in all but dam if it wasnt worth every penny. Online
racing has never been the same imo. I was only the un-touching middle man
between HP payroll and Pacific Bell Phone Co accts recievables for awhile,
heh.

TEN seemed a much more disconnected experience than Hawaii, on the pickup
racing side anyway. Watching leaders/winner from the lobby was fun in
itself. Running against Huggins is still the same too ;) <== notice the
wink Bob.

Every time I mention an online race to my better half, the first thing from
her mouth is "is it long distance?" LOL.

Mitch
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by **Tim** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:29:05

Hard to believe its been 10 years since my first online racing
experience. I was wondering how many old-timers that still follow
this group were testers on Hawaii? A show of hands and handles.
I went by MR.V

Tim yuhasz

by **DodgeBullet4** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:31:42

Those were good times...the community was a lot closer back then. I
remember*** out in the Compuserve forums and hearing about it. I was
there the first night it went public. I ran in a bunch of leagues ringing
up $900 phone bills. I didn't care...it was a blast. My ID was sbycroft.
I ran in Late Night with Dave, SSCA BGN, CUP, and Sunday Nights, NRH, and
SASCAR.

"No passing in the tri!!!" LOL!!!

>> Waves Hand...

>> I don't remember a lot about how the service worked, but I do remember
>> the
>> $300 Phone Bills :)

>> -Larry

>>> Hard to believe its been 10 years since my first online racing
>>> experience. I was wondering how many old-timers that still follow
>>> this group were testers on Hawaii? A show of hands and handles.
>>> I went by MR.V

>>> Tim yuhasz

> I think I started on Hawaii in Mar-Apr 96' as naman. Are you talking
> about
> the beta of the beta?.

> Heh, $300 was a baby crack habit ;) I doubled that every month for 5-6
> months. Nearly $4k in all but dam if it wasnt worth every penny. Online
> racing has never been the same imo. I was only the un-touching middle man
> between HP payroll and Pacific Bell Phone Co accts recievables for awhile,
> heh.

> TEN seemed a much more disconnected experience than Hawaii, on the pickup
> racing side anyway. Watching leaders/winner from the lobby was fun in
> itself. Running against Huggins is still the same too ;) <== notice the
> wink Bob.

> Every time I mention an online race to my better half, the first thing
> from
> her mouth is "is it long distance?" LOL.

> Mitch
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by **Aaron Markha** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:42:39

I tried it a few times until the phone bill came, then my Dad almost killed
me, rofl!! That was back in my keyboard days too, got a Thrustmaster T2
shortly after that and still use it as we speak.

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by **Mitch_** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:45:29

> Those were good times...the community was a lot closer back then. I
> remember*** out in the Compuserve forums and hearing about it. I was
> there the first night it went public. I ran in a bunch of leagues ringing
> up $900 phone bills. I didn't care...it was a blast. My ID was sbycroft.
> I ran in Late Night with Dave, SSCA BGN, CUP, and Sunday Nights, NRH, and
> SASCAR.

Steve Bycroft right? I remember you from LNWD. Whatever happened to
Sparks? Hes gotta still have some interest since Oscar.

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by **Pete** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:01:02

In the very early days of the beta everyone logged into the race
one person at a time. It was like a role call. :-)

Pete

by **blackNOSPAMcat..** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:18:57

I was on it just a couple times. I was too cheap to do it a lot. The
guy that ran our league still lived with his parents and ran up a
phone bill in the hundreds of dollars for just one month.

After that, he disappeared from view. :)

by **DodgeBullet4** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:25:53

Yeah...Late Night with Dave was a great league. I think we ran in SSCA too.
I don't know what happened to him...I think he got a job with Creative and
had to give it up...

>> Those were good times...the community was a lot closer back then. I
>> remember*** out in the Compuserve forums and hearing about it. I
>> was
>> there the first night it went public. I ran in a bunch of leagues
>> ringing
>> up $900 phone bills. I didn't care...it was a blast. My ID was
>> sbycroft.
>> I ran in Late Night with Dave, SSCA BGN, CUP, and Sunday Nights, NRH, and
>> SASCAR.

> Steve Bycroft right? I remember you from LNWD. Whatever happened to
> Sparks? Hes gotta still have some interest since Oscar.

> Mitch
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by **Don Burnett** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:25:02

> Hard to believe its been 10 years since my first online racing
> experience. I was wondering how many old-timers that still follow
> this group were testers on Hawaii? A show of hands and handles.
> I went by MR.V

> Tim yuhasz

Here...

Who would have thought, back then, that online racing would be no further
along than it is today?

Well, perhaps I should clarify. I have not raced online in well over a year,
let's say no further than what I perceive it to be today.

--
Don Burnette

"When you decide something is impossible to do, try to stay out of the
way of the man that's doing it."

by **ymenar** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:12:20

> Yeah...Late Night with Dave was a great league.

LNwD had the best race reports, also :)

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by **Dave Henri** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:41:24

>> Hard to believe its been 10 years since my first online racing
>> experience. I was wondering how many old-timers that still follow
>> this group were testers on Hawaii? A show of hands and handles.
>> I went by MR.V

>> Tim yuhasz

> Here...

> Who would have thought, back then, that online racing would be no
> further along than it is today?

> Well, perhaps I should clarify. I have not raced online in well over a
> year, let's say no further than what I perceive it to be today.

I never did the beta work, but I was able to log on a few times and
race. I don't remember any backwards drivers, any *** flaming, But
there were some pretty intense guys. I got a podium finish after getting
caught up in a 20 car wreck on lap one at...probably Martinsville. I
stayed out with the hood(bonnet) shoved up into the windscreen<windshield>
and motored around. I had one ***y/tiny piece of viewable real estate in
the***pit. Got lapped many times by the two guys who missed the
carnage. But the others took so long in the pits I was able to outlast
them. :)

dave henrie

by **DodgeBullet4** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:46:48

Yeah...he kept them up awhile too after the league folded. I kept meaning
to grab them but kept putting it off...

>> Yeah...Late Night with Dave was a great league.

> LNwD had the best race reports, also :)

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by **Ed Medli** » Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:05:55

Raced a few times on Hawaii. I had a son in college and a new house and just
couldn't afford the phone bills. Think about it, those were dialup days.
Good quality racing but sometimes intense. I haven't really got back into
the online scene much since. I finally have half-decent dsl and am thinking
about getting back into it if there is anyone out there who would take an
old "newbie" and help him through the ropes.

Ed

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