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...
Thanks, Well, mostly I remember taking her printer stand a lot because at the time I thought it looked like part of a spaceship. >_> <_< But also I would...
... best way ... font. (I ... IT people ... data ... the whole com/ip thing is a nightmare....I gave up on that route. However, I did recently check out...
... The web interface and the nntp features are nice, but many of the features do not work out of the box and customization is a complete nightmare. it lacks...
I was browsing through some of the files in my bbs directory and came across these 2 newuser files I wrote for the board. The first one is a copy of the new...
... Reading these was amusing. I realize that I've become so jaded that if I had to write guidelines like this now, I'd just cut to the chase. Something like:...
Over the time, reading all these post in the forum. Remembering what good times I had being a sysop, Running my Wildcat bbs 2 Node system. Playing the door...
... From: "TJ Visicaro" <tjjr615@...> To: <80sBBS@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:55 AM Subject: [80sBBS] Where are they? ... the ......