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Things started to change when an Apple Canada employee, Mark Windrim, set up a new BBS on FirstClass largely as an experiment. Word of the new system slowly spread, but getting onto it proved challenging. Mac software requires the support of a system known as MacBinary to successfully download, a system that FirstClass did not initially support. Prospective users of what was then known as Digital Spectrum first had to find the client program on another BBS, and at the time the vast majority of BBS systems were based on DOS and didn't normally carry Mac software. Even with this barrier to entry, local Mac ...

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Asbury Theological Seminary was founded in Wilmore, Kentucky in 1923 by its first president, Henry Clay Morrison. Shortly thereafter, the school broke away from Asbury College and became a separate institution. Because of the close proximity of the two schools (across the street), similar name, and common theological heritage, many people confuse the relationship between the College and the Seminary. Today, there is no connection between the two schools. Succeeding Morrison as president was J.C. McPheeters, who was succeeded by Frank ...

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FirstClass is originally a product of SoftArc, formed by three former members of Bell Northern Research, Nortel's research arm located in downtown Toronto. The team, consisting of two brothers and a friend, had been the primarily developers of the successful Meridian Mail system, and styled themselves as the Toronto Ideas Group. After a run-in with management, the three were fired and formed SoftArc as a consulting firm. FirstClass was created in response to a request by a family friend who worked at the Scarborough Scho ...

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FirstClass, FirstClass - Early history, FirstClass - MAGIC and the BBS revolution, FirstClass - Corporate e-mail

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