The name was ALMAC (very original Alistair Mc ran it) - bought over by
Scotland on line in turn absorbed into THUS.

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:37:29AM +0000 or thereabouts, Graeme Mathieson
wrote:
> My first real taste of the Internet was a BBS in Grangemouth (who's name
> I can't remember ... it began with an 'A' too I think) which offered a
> month's free Internet access when they first setup the gateway.  Though
> I didn't realise it at the time, it was just a Unix shell prompt with
> access to gopher, FTP, lynx, a newsreader and a mailreader.

Hehe - I used to work for them (which was pretty much responsible for me
getting heavily into linux).

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