Re: BBS Preservation Archive

[Lord Spatula <Urchlay@bell***south.net>]

Nick S Bensema wrote:
> I'm sure lots of people have message bases on disk somewhere,
> or printed out and stuffed in a drawer somewhere.
> 
> Who else has stuff like this?  Who just thinks it's a neat idea?

*I* think it's a neat idea... the last Atari 8-bit BBSes in my area
(Atlanta) died circa '89-'90, and I know some of the sysops... I'll see
what can be done about getting some of the disks (though the best boards
were run on hard drives, which even if they haven't died or gotten
reformatted, would be *very* difficult to access, since you'd just about
have to duplicate the original, customized, hacked, modified, and
tweaked setups that each of those sysops had, and no two are even
remotely alike...)

...and I think I have several thousand feet of rolled-up TI SilenType
thermal printer paper that I saved when I called BBSes from my high
school (they had over $50,000 worth of equipment in the computer lab,
but the SilenType was the only thing you could call out on, and you were
only supposed to use it to access the "Career Center" database at Ga.
Tech...)

such was life in those wild, wacky, bygone days...