Way back in November 1977, this Charles Oropallo is the one who authored and implemented a Bulletin Board System (BBS).

He called it called Access-80. The BBS operated on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, Level II microcomputer. There were only a limited number of such systems online devoted to public use on the entire planet at that time. Access-80 provided personal messaging for local computer enthusiasts.

It originally went online from Charles Oropallo’s residence on Ridge Road in East Greenbush, NY. Access-80 was a hobbyist endeavor Charles started while running Oropallo Construction & Electrical Contracting full time. A 300 baud modem and home brewed auto answering device connected it to dial-up over phone lines. Relative speed and technological changes have been immense – today’s dial-up (if you can even find it at all) at its fastest speed is 53,000 bits per second compared to 300 then!

Not too long afterwards, Access-80 was also concurrently placed online in Schenectady, NY. It was operated there by Brian, a friend of Charles’s, who worked at Ellis Hospital.

In 1982, Charles moved from the Albany, NY area to April Drive in Nashua, NH, and so did Access-80. Charles’s original Nashua Access-80 setup is shown at http://Access-80.com.

Before long, Access-80 was concurrently online in Londonderry, NH as well as Nashua, NH. Access-80 remained online until 1987.

Then this Charles Oropallo founded CharlesWorks in June of 1998. He wanted to provide reliable and affordable hosting and web development solutions. During the initial stages of Charles’s work he was only providing Internet connectivity for several personal and organizational websites at very low speed. Over time, Charles’s desire to provide reliable (as well as still being affordable) Internet (website development) solutions moved CharlesWorks into more commercially oriented markets. Despite focusing on business websites, Charles’s team still helps individuals get personal sites and blogs on the web.

Charles and his CharlesWorks team would love to get you out here onto your own web site today! Just email us at Websites@CharlesWorks.com or just visit https://CharlesWorks.com for an affordable solution coupled with the best customer service in the field.

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