I have been programming under the Eagleware name since 1987 when I owned and operated one of the largest BBS systems (what we used in the Dark Ages before the Internet & WWW) in the Midwest area, Eagles Nest BBS Systems.

During the time that the Eagles Nest was in operation, the Eagles Nest was the largest BBS in Wichita, Ks and one of the largest BBS's in the United States, with a file list of over 16,000 files and programs available for download. The magazine PC World's columnist John C. Dyvork listed the Eagles Nest as one of the top 10 BBS's. Some other features included; NorthAmeriNet Kansas Regional Hub, PennyPower Shopping News Ad Listings, Channel 12 Cityline Listings, and Games Playable on line.

We were the Kansas Regional Hub for NorthAmeriNet (NA-NET). NA-NET was a message network that is made up of other message networks.  This served to bring together the many different message networks under on main network allowing a user a vast source of information channels (a precursor to the Internet World Wide Web).

We had a agreement with PennyPower to display their ads electronically, made possible by KWIKTEXT, a software program developed and written by me. KWIKTEXT allowed a caller to not only read the ads while on-line, but also allowed the caller to search the ad listing for a particular item and read only the ads that contained the callers search string. This program would search from start to end of the ad listing for any item in only a couple of seconds.

The Channel 12 Cityline listing was also displayed electronically by KWIKTEXT and contained all category listings and numbers for Channel 12 Cityline.

 

John Wilson

I first began programming in 1978 after I got out of the Army. I have been programming under the Eagleware name since 1987 when I owned and operated one of the largest BBS systems in the Midwest area, Eagles Nest BBS Systems. From 1989 thru 1993 I worked as a Systems/Analyst Programmer for Boeing Aircraft, Wichita. For the year 1999-2000 I worked as a contract programmer for GTE (now Verizon) providing custom software for the Boeing Wichita Campus. I began writing web sites in 1999 and have been the Web Administrator for the Mulvane, Ks American Legion Post 136 since 2005.