TIBBS - Phillip (P.J.) Holly

Phillip (P.J.) Holly

12 year-old programmer Phillip (P.J.) Holly aired a BBS written in Extended Basic on his TI-99/4A home computer in late 1982 or early 1983 in the Northwest Chicago suburbs. His code was given to fellow BBS friends, and eventually used as a starting point for the Chicago TI-User's Group BBS, which later was coded in assembly language using TI-Editor Assembler. Holly wrote his BBS software on his own due to the lack of available BBS software options for the TI-99/4A. Months later, he discovered Mr. Fowler's TIBBS flagship in Atlanta.