who here was part of Hawaii?

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

Waves Hand...

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

-Larry

"Tim Y" > wrote in message
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> 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
>
>

>"Larry" > wrote
> 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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Larry wrote:

> Waves Hand...
>
> I don't remember a lot about how the service worked, but I do remember the
> $300 Phone Bills
>
> -Larry
>
> "Tim Y" > wrote in message
> news:Bt%Xd.631435$Xk.400472@pd7tw3no...
>> 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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Those were good times...the community was a lot closer back then. I
remember hanging 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!!!

"Mitch_A" > wrote in message
m...
> Larry wrote:
>
>> Waves Hand...
>>
>> I don't remember a lot about how the service worked, but I do remember
>> the
>> $300 Phone Bills
>>
>> -Larry
>>
>> "Tim Y" > wrote in message
>> news:Bt%Xd.631435$Xk.400472@pd7tw3no...
>>> 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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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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"Tim Y" > wrote in message
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> 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
>

DodgeBullet40 wrote:

> Those were good times...the community was a lot closer back then. I
> remember hanging 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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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

"Tim Y" > wrote in message
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> 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
>
>

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:29:05 GMT, "Tim Y" >
wrote:

>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 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.

Tim Y wrote:
> 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.





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Don Burnette

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