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Ed Wright 04-16-2011 07:59 AM

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I was on Compuserve then. Remember Larry from there, conversed with him a couple of times. Couldn't believe I could get round-by-round results like that. Very cool.

joe176 04-16-2011 08:15 AM

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I really appreciate all the work you do at Drag Race Central......keep it coming..I too remember when we had to wait for the paper to come a month later to see who did what.....Thanks Jim !!!!!........Joe Franco

340Cuda 04-16-2011 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Ed Wright (Post 252976)
I was on Compuserve then. Remember Larry from there, conversed with him a couple of times. Couldn't believe I could get round-by-round results like that. Very cool.

Yep I was a Compuserve junkie too, hudled over my Radio Shack Model IV connected to my Hayes 2400 baud modem. I think I paid $600 for the modem!

Jerry Reynolds who used to race around here (Lamplighter) used to be involved, is he still around?

Bill

Ed Wright 04-16-2011 09:10 AM

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Don't know, Bill. Last I heard Jerry was living in Houston?

jwsamuel 04-16-2011 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by 340Cuda (Post 252986)
Yep I was a Compuserve junkie too, hudled over my Radio Shack Model IV connected to my Hayes 2400 baud modem. I think I paid $600 for the modem!

2400 Baud? Wow...you were living large back then.

Jim

Dan Bennett 04-16-2011 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jwsamuel (Post 252974)
Yes to both.

For anyone who is interested, here is a brief history.

What is now DRC has its roots in the mid to late 1980s in the Motorsports forum on the old CompuServe Information Service. There were a group of us who would cover NASCAR, Indy cars, sports cars, drag racing and other types of motorsports by taking computers to the races and filing reports throughout the event. Someone wrote a program (for MS-DOS) that automated the process for NASCAR and other racing that runs laps around a circuit. Larry Sullivan wrote a similar program for drag racing. The group covering drag racing at the time on CompuServe included Ed, Larry, Rick Green, Dave Rowe, Dave Gerard, Bob Orme and the late Darryl Jackman (I hope I have not left anyone out). Back then, I was only covering NASCAR and Indy cars and did not become involved in drag racing coverage until 2001.

When the Internet started to take hold in the 1990s, Ed was one of the first to recognize what was going on and created FastNews Network, which provides the content for DRC. What exists today grew from Ed's idea and work.

Ed Dykes died in January 2000 when he was flying his private plane home from the IHRA banquet. After his death, Rick and Larry kept FastNews going since then. Larry continually updates the software, both to provide more information and to accommodate changes, such as four-wide racing or 1,000 feet), and Rick keeps us up and running.

That's the brief version and I am sure I have forgotten someone or something that happened along the way.

Jim

Mike Jex and Jerry Reynolds were there in the early days also.

Eddie Dykes had a Super Stock background since he had helped with (ok, maybe just hung out with) John Livingston, Paul Rossi, and Terry Earwood from time to time.

Ed Wright 04-16-2011 09:59 AM

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Cylinder head wizard Larry Meaux was there too.

Larry Sullivan 04-16-2011 10:33 AM

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Unfortunately, Jerry Reynolds lost a battle with Cancer earlier this year. Jerry did a lot of work with the Texas Motor Speedway media center and website after his CompuServe days, lived near Dallas.

jwsamuel 04-16-2011 12:30 PM

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Dan and Larry....

Thanks for remember Mike and Jerry. I knew I had forgotten someone.

Jim
The dumbass who was covering MIR :)

Ed Wright 04-16-2011 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Larry Sullivan (Post 253014)
Unfortunately, Jerry Reynolds lost a battle with Cancer earlier this year. Jerry did a lot of work with the Texas Motor Speedway media center and website after his CompuServe days, lived near Dallas.

Didn't know we had lost Jerry. He used to live here. I always enjoyed being around Jerry. Good guy.
R.I.P. Jerry.


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