Hello all. I don't know if any of the Birmingham, Alabama crowd is here or not. I used to run a BBS in the late 80s/early 90s in West Blocton, Alabama called...
... I also agree with missing the bbs days and the glossy and corporate ideas, but... Those were elitist days. Cost of entry was high and the level of...
In the 80's and 90's the Commodore 64 was the gate way to BBSing. I live California, on the out skirts of L.A. witch started as the (213). Then was (310, now...
QuantumLink is the predecessor to AOL, same company, different name... Glenn ... From: gunnadriveunuts To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 15,...
Thanks for the link. Now I get to drive my wife crazy with the old C-64! She has been trying to get me to toss that thing for years! HEEHAWS! How do ya like me...
TOSS A working 64? C'mon now.. If yer gonna get rid of it, sell it on EBay or something so someone else gets to love it and use it. Throwing them away is a...
Hey, just wanted to pass along that I was doing a bunch of digitization of my collection of vintage ads, brochures, catalogs, and the rest of the detrius of...
How do you pluralize BBS anyway? The easiest thing to do is lengthen it out to "Bulletin Board Systems," but how do you pluralize the acronym? BBSes? BBSs? ...
Ah, you have just hit on one of the most transgressed mistakes in pluralization that there is. How to pluralize an acronym. You are absolutely right that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation # Plurals are often formed by doubling up the last letter of the abbreviation. Most of these deal with writing and ...
That picture is truly sad.. a whole wasted quote... *sigh* ... From: Quag7 To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: RE:...
I still stand by my claim that because the last letter is an S, it is correct to add "es" to pluralize BBS. But, I am also with Bruce Landwaster when he says:...
Just to throw another wrench into the works, shouldn't "80sBBS" be "80'sBBS"? After all, years are one of the few things that ARE pluralized with an...
In a message dated 16 Mar 06 18:10:03 Central Standard Time, waldieb@... writes: I still stand by my claim that because the last letter is an S, it is...
... More like 80\'sBBS Which would look ridiculous. More to the point: '80'sBBS to be kind to the mailing software... \'80\'sBBS ... Yes, and this has been a...
Former sys0p of diabolica bbs [909] checking in. Ran 4 lines back in the day. Art, txt, apps, hpavc, etc... 600+ users, 22 networks, 43 states, 7 countries...
Must be viewed in terminal font w/o word wrap! <G> enjoy _ __ ______ _____________________ ______ ________________ _____ _________ ____\\___ \ ______...
Hello all, My only involvement in BBS's was annoying my older sister, who ran a BBS back sometime in the late 80's. I was to young back then to really...
telnet : look at a program like Com/IP (last I looked that was the best way under windows) posting ASCII : change your font to courier, or another fixed pitch...
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