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PixTerm & Pixboards
- Subject: PixTerm & Pixboards
- From: "Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 01:30:31 -1000
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- Reply-to: "Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>
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Looking through my ancient diskettes, I stumbled across a copy of PixTerm
4.1. Man, this was a really neat way of BBS'ing in the early 1980's.
PixTerm was a term program used to connect to a unique type of BBS called a
"Pixboard". From what I remember, Pixboards were the first to utilize
high-resolution graphics. This was at the time where all other BBS's were
text-based. I used to phreak my way into various BBS', including Pixel
Palace, which was the home Matthew Dornquast, who wrote PixTerm. When you
connected to his BBS, not only could you post messages, but you could draw
pictures in the messages! This was very neat at the time!
Does anyone out there have the BBS software to run a Pixboard? I'd like to
play around with this stuff! I still have my Micromodem II running!
--- Bryan