<<About Janis and Ron

Ron and I have been married for about 25 years (we still can't remember our anniversary). We're two old hippies - children of the 60's (smile). Yes, Ron went to the Woodstock Festival (the original one on Max Yasgur's farm which was really close to where he lived)... my father wouldn't let me go...laugh... We met after Ron had finished school at Johns Hopkins University and I was still in our local community college.. acting was my life until true love struck us both. I'd never even thought about computers then. Ron bought me a computer sometime in the early 80's and I taught myself to program.. then I taught him... Then he did this "leap" kind of thing with his programming skills.. ;-)

We are self-taught C/C++ programmers and we successfully ran our own company, "Invisible Light Software", for about 5 years. Life is mean though, and eventually Ron had to get a "real" job.. He has been a Senior Programmer for a nationally marketed product, FilePro Plus (tm) for a good number of years now. I work on projects from home, having had my fill of working in the real world.

As we were learning C (mid 80's), I noticed most BBS systems required users to upload

something to download code...I swore then that as soon as I had a system free, I'd start a free-access BBS dedicated to programmers. In 1989, I was able to do so and <<PRISM BBS was born in Warwick, N.Y. When <<PRISM started, it was considered quite a "trouble-maker" by some of the BBS systems in the area.. it was the first to not require ratios (upload a file to get one), the first to give users an ungodly amount of time online (an hour!), and the first to run multi-node.

We both had lived in N.Y. State, the Mid-Hudson area, all of our lives. We were up-rooted and moved to Louisville, Kentucky when FilePro Plus (tm) was sold to Adminstar Communications. And here we are today (smile). <<PRISM BBS still runs two nodes, one an ISDN 64k line on a U. S. Robotics I-Modem, the other an analog line hooked into a U. S. Robotics V.Everything modem, live on the Internet.

If you want to see the entire collection give <<PRISM a call (1-502-245-6778), or Visit <<Prism BBS via Telnet or visit Prism via the web interface to the bbs