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º October 1993 Volume 1 Number 10 º
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ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄĶ
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º Board of Trade BBS New Port Richey, Florida (813) 862-4772 º
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In This Issue
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þ ONE BBSCON Recap - Some highlights from the BBSCON
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þ ONE BBSCON Briefs - Clint Bradford on Running the ASP Booth
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þ Ward Christensen - Father of the Bulletin Board
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þ 1993 Dvorak Telecommunications Awards
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þ Reviews and more!
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Editor's Welcome
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Wow! Where to begin.
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The BBS convention was interesting, educational, a lot of fun, and sometimes
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seemed amazing. There are several articles about the ONE BBSCON in this
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month's issue, and no doubt more to come. When I, or others, write about the
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BBSCON, we don't want to sound like name droppers, but most of the people
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there were very friendly and approachable. Even the biggest names in this
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business love to talk about it, which made for a fascinating week.
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The Pasco BBS Magazine has added it's first International Distribution Site,
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the Xenakis BBS located in the United Kingdom. There also has been some
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interest from Canadian boards, and I hope to name several new sites next
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month.
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One person I want to take a minute to thank is Clint Bradford, Sysop of
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ATTENTIONS to Details RyBBS in Mira Loma, California. His board, in addition
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to being a really nice board, is a Pasco BBS Magazine Distribution Site.
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Not only did he send along the great article in this month's issue, but he did
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some publicity work for the magazine at the ONE BBSCON. I want to say thanks
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Clint, I owe you one!
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Pasco BBS Magazine Distribution Sites ³
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³ United States ³
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³ Florida West Pasco Board of Trade BBS (813) 862-4772 ³
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³ Clearwater Pegboard BBS (813) 596-7148 ³
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³ Largo Birdland BBS (813) 595-9239 ³
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³ Lutz Night City South (813) 949-5751 ³
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³ St. Petersburg Twilight BBS (813) 323-6023 ³
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³ Tampa InnerZone BBS (813) 238-0707 ³
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³ Valparaiso Phoenix BBS (904) 651-4423 ³
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³ West Palm Beach ArrowHead BBS (407) 833-0878 ³
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³ Zephyrhills Tele Com BBS (813) 780-8452 ³
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³ California Mira Loma ATTENTION to Details (909) 681-6221 ³
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³ Illinois Mundelein Mulligan's Place BBS (708) 566-6183 ³
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³ Indiana South Bend The Great Beyond BBS (219) 233-8854 ³
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³ Massachusetts Clinton Software Creations (508) 365-2359 ³
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³ East Sandwich La Villa Strangiato (508) 888-1185 ³
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³ North Carolina Morehead City SeaScape BBS (919) 726-9364 ³
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³ West Virginia Snowshoe Snowshoe BBS (304) 572-2531 ³
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³ United Kingdom ³
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³ Northamptonshire Raunds Xenakis BBS +44 933 460744 ³
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³ SYSOPS: Read PBMDIST.INF to sign up! ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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ONE BBSCON Recap
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The Online Networking Exposition and BBS Convention, better known as ONE
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BBSCON, was held August 25-29. It was by most accounts a smashing success.
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The almost 2,000 in attendance were treated to educational sessions, vendor
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exhibits and parties known as hospitality suites. Despite some rainy and cool
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weather, Colorado Springs provided a magnificent setting for the event. It is
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no wonder that one hundred years ago, this scenery inspired Katharine Lee
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Bates to write "America the Beautiful."
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The ONE BBSCON is the brainchild of Jack Rickard, who is the editor of
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Boardwatch Magazine and Phil Becker, who is the President of eSoft, Inc.
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There is also an Advisory Board made up of the leaders in the on-line
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communications business. Jack Rickard was given a special award prior to the
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session where the Boardwatch Magazine awards were handed out. He was
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presented a golden target, symbolizing what an easy target the man who set up
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the event could be. Rickard explained the philosophy, "if we dream it up out
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of one person's mind, it's naturally going to be a very narrow type view. So,
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one of the things we wanted to do with ONE BBSCON is include all the views and
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all the activities. That can be a little bit of hard work occasionally, but
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if that's all it takes I think we're going to have it. I appreciate the award
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and the humor, with the Golden Target."
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The organizers of the event achieved a basic goal in bringing together people
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who are competitors with strong loyalties to certain BBS software packages.
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Those in attendance represented a wide range of experience in the BBS world.
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The biggest names included major software and hardware developers, Sysops from
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the most well known boards and the founding fathers of BBSing. People come
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for different reasons, some to learn, some to meet people and some to promote.
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Surprising, there were many non-Sysops who were doing research before they
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went on-line. I have to give them credit, as most people who operate boards
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today did not have that advantage. Maybe half of the total had been Sysops
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for over one year, so it proves how fast this industry is growing.
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The Broadmoor Hotel was selected as this year's convention site and it is, if
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I may quote the program, an "up-scale facility." One of the few complaints
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heard was that things were so spread out, it would be a fairly safe bet that
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everyone got rained on at least once. It was a very comfortable evening when
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the Welcoming Reception, complete with a classical quartet, was held on the
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Lake Terrace on the eve of the convention. Judging by the crowd on the
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terrace, few people wanted to miss this opportunity.
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About the only other time most everyone was gathered together in one place was
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the morning of the Welcoming Session. Jack Rickard welcomed all to the ONE
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BBSCON and members of the Advisory Board spoke as well. The Keynote Address
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delivered by Jim Warren had plenty of humor and gave a virtual history of the
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computer. Jim Warren shared his wealth of experience, from the earliest
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computer magazines to hosting Computer Chronicles on PBS, the man has quite a
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resume.
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The vendor exhibits were another popular aspect of the ONE BBSCON. All the
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biggest names where there to promote the latest available products. Special
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prices were offered by most of the vendors, but modem manufacturers seemed to
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be leading the way in discounts. Of course, there were vendors who would make
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more money over this couple of days, then they would the rest of the year.
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Most people probably spent at least a few dollars, and everyone came home with
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all kinds of information and free stuff.
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With the one-hundred and thirty something educational sessions, dozens of
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vendor exhibits and general discussions going on, few could argue with what
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Phil Becker said at the Welcoming Session. "You're going to go through
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information over-load the next three days." Some sessions had hundreds in
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attendance, others only had a few people interested. There was Ward
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Christensen talking about the first BBS and John Dvorak handing out awards,
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see the accompanying articles. There was a session on virtually any aspect of
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the BBS world. One highly publicized session which did not take place was
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Rusty Harenberg discussing the raid on Rusty & Edie's BBS.
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Trophies were presented to the top ten finishers in the Boardwatch Magazine
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contest to find the most popular BBSs. Dan Linton's Software Creations BBS
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finished first, and he commented on how it happened. "The one question that I
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was asked the most while I've been here from everybody, and I think I'd like
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to answer it from here, is 'how did you do it?' For us basically, we do
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publish software, as well as we're the home board for Apogee and other
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software producers. Running a BBS of this size doesn't come by luck, and I
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think a lot of people in this room know it, you've got to make whatever
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happens, happen yourself. Some of the advertising that we've been able to do
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has been through the games, some of my own products I have in K-Mart, Sears
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and Wal-Mart. Apogee advertises us in their games and there are many other
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people who do the same, so consequently we do get the exposure. The people
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that I'd like to thank are Apogee, Scott Miller and George Broussard who
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believed in me when I was only three nodes, telling them that we could take
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the system to this size and much bigger. Many other people who trusted in
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us...my wife, Co-Sysops, everybody that has been involved in basically putting
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us here."
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One of the more well attended sessions was "The Past, Present, and Future
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Internet." The special guest speaker was Dr. Vinton Cerf, who is the
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President of the Internet Society. Dr. Cerf talked of the past "this thing
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started out as a Defense Department project, just to show how weird things
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are. The Defense Department knew it had a lot of computers scattered out all
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around in the field, more and more of them were being used for command and
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control. The question was how do we hook all these things together? The
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Internet was designed for doing that, of course things have turned out
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differently than anyone expected."
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One of the several over-riding themes of the convention was the legal issues
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facing today's bulletin board operators. Educational sessions covered adult
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images, copyrights and liabilities that a board may face. During one of the
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legal sessions Sharri Steele of the Electronic Frontiers Foundation introduced
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one of the audience members who was participating in the question and answer
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part of the session. "Everybody, this is Pete Kennedy he was the attorney
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who prosecuted the Secret Service in the Steve Jackson Games case." Pete
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Kennedy received one of the loudest ovations of the week.
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This was intended to be just a little background on the convention and a few
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of the highlights. This month's Pasco BBS Magazine also features a great
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article by Clint Bradford on running the Association of Shareware
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Professionals booth. Read about Ward Christensen, the man who started all
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this, and the 1993 Dvorak Telecommunications Awards. Next month will have
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more on the ONE BBSCON including some of my personal recollections in an
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article called "BBSCON Day Two."
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² Board of Trade BBS New Port Richey, Florida ²
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² Home of the Pasco BBS Magazine ²
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² Home of Shadoware ²
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² Bytor Computer Systems, Inc. presents the PC Help Forum ²
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² (813) 862-4772 12/24/48/96/14400 baud ²
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² Member of... ²
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² Electronic Frontiers Foundation and American BBS Association ²
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² Official Distribution Site ²
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² Apogee Software, Digital Reality, Epic MegaGames, Gamer's Edge, ²
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² MVP Software, Software Creations and Westcoast 813 BBS Directory ²
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² BBS Voice Line (813) 863-5886 ²
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ONE BBSCON Briefs
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by Clint Bradford, Sysop of ATTENTION to Details RyBBS, Mira Loma, California
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I - BBSCON 1993: An Overview
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With over 137 Educational Sessions and over 100 Vendor Exhibits, ONE BBSCON is
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the largest gathering of Sysops and Telecommunications Professionals the world
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has ever seen. Place these people in an environmentally/esthetically pleasing
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locale such as Colorado Springs - and you have the potential for one
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incredible week. And it was.
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I have been assigned to run the ASP Booth at ONE BBSCON. We went first class
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with the Booth Choice: The Broadmoor Hotel's International Center housed 81
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10x10' Booths for Vendors. A dramatic 16,000 square-foot assemblage of
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telecommunications-related vendor offerings. The adjacent Colorado Hall
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provided an additional 5,000 square feet of 6x8' exhibits.
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Seminars were broken down into "tracks" for attendees:
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-How to Run a BBS for Profit
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-Survey of BBS Software
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-Internet
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-Legal/Social Issues
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-Technology
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-Connectivity
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-Applications
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-Education & Government
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And, of course, there were evening activities.
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What follows are Random Notes taken during the course of my experience at the
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Conference. Thanks for reading. As always, I may be reached at ATTENTION to
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Details BBS at 909/681-6221, or on CIS at 71160,2176.
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II - DAY ONE: The Flight to Colorado
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Arrived at Ontario International Airport an hour and a quarter early, to check
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in my 270+ pounds of Leaflets, Brochures, Diskettes, and Prizes for the
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Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) Booth. Checked in four boxes
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with the SkyCap. SkyCap gives me three Claim Checks. "But Sir, I have four
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items."
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"No problem, Mr. Bradford. Have a nice flight!" OK. We'll see.
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Boarded my flight, and after a ten minute wait, we hear, "Ladies and
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gentlemen, this is your pilot speaking. We're having trouble starting our
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Number Three Engine, so we're going to pull back to the Boarding Gate."
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Didn't think flying made me nervous. Ten minutes later: "We think we isolated
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the problem - need to get a little more air to the #3 engine..." Huh? More
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air? Aren't the engines OUTSIDE?
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"We have isolated the leaking valve and we're OK."
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"Isolated" it? Don't we NEED it? REPLACE IT, DARN IT. And make sure no
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O-Rings are involved. We take off. Very pleasant Flight Crew. Breakfast
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Flight. I do not trust "Mixed Fruit Yogurt" at any altitude.
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Unexpected turbkjegeuw... jhueuyn... T-U-R-B-U-L-E-N-C-E. Yet it's perfectly
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clear outside. Weird - side-to-side movement, reminds me of our Landers (CA)
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earthquake last year.
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Made it to Denver no problem. Watched my bags being transferred to my second
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plane. No problems. Well, until we board (deja vu). "Ladies and Gentlemen,
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we are experiencing an electrical problem. Our technicians say they need
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about a half-hour to dig into it."
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Arrived at Colorado Springs. Baggage OK. Arrived at the Hotel. "Good
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afternoon, my name is Clint Bradford," I advise the Registration Desk. Before
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inputing anything in her computer, the Clerk blurted, "OH, YOU'RE MR.
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BRADFORD. We have 18 boxes here for you." He he. So, folks, all your
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materials are here. They get moved to the site tomorrow at Noon our time.
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All is well and undamaged.
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Tonight's event was a Smooze Party. Under the stars, classical music played
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by a quartet of strings, lots of interaction. Had a drink with Jack Rickard -
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and, to be honest with you, being in a group of several hundred fellow
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telecomputerists wasn't as bizarre as I thought it was going to be.
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°°°º ATTENTION to Details RyBBS º°°°°°°°º BOARDWATCH Magazine On-Line º°°°
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°°°º BBS Excellence... º°°°°°°°º BBS LEGAL GUIDE Dist. Site º°°°
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°°°º Across the Board! (sm) º°°°°°°°º MEMBER: The Electronic º°°°
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III - DAY TWO: Setting Up the ASP Booth
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Enjoyed breakfast with a fascinating gentleman who currently works for the GSA
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in their CASU Program. He reports to the Director of the OMB - and is mere
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steps away from the Executive Branch of our government. CASU? "Cooperative
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Administrative Support Units" - attempting to consolidate overlapping
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administrative services, and telecomputing workcenters. He's here absorbing
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all he can regarding BBS software/implementations. Forty-one years with the
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government. Incredible stories. Oh, and Greg Ryan, VP of Exec-PC, was with
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us (Exec-PC Plug #1).
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Skipping the Opening Ceremonies at 9am this morning while arranging
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transportation of our 20+ cartons to the Broadmoor site. Also placing
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finishing touches on a couple administration items. Not to mention loading
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the Red Lion Shuttle Van with my 270 pounds of stuff, PLUS the 18 boxes that
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were downstairs in Receiving.
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A little hitch in the schedule. Was told that Exhibitors could begin moving
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in at Noon. Nope. Got there with a completely full shuttle van of wares, and
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was told I couldn't move in until 4pm. Had to leave the stuff on a loading
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dock, about 250 feet from the actual booth. So, I missed the Opening
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Ceremonies and Reader's Choice Awards while "mother hen-ning" our materials
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for the Booth.
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So - I started moving our stuff in at 3:45pm, and just got back to the Hotel
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Room at 8:50pm. A lot of effort for one person, ladies and gentlemen.
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Couldn't touch the hand trucks that were lying about - Freeman Decorating was
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running the show. After lifting, for the third time today, about five boxes,
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I talked to Steve - the head of Freeman Decorating. How much could his
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services be "bought" for? $32.00 was his sympathetic reply, after viewing the
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pallet-full I was hand-carrying in. No lengthy decision-making process here,
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folks. Freeman got my $32.00. [ASP Cash Request Number 1.]
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Couldn't attend the Dvorak Awards Presentation - had to get our booth set up
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by 8pm. The ASP Booth looks great, folks! I will give you a rundown on all
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the materials we have - but it is great.
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The Boardwatch Top 100 Awards were handed out today. I forget the top ten,
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except for EXEC-PC got #2. [Hey, if YOU could get a free meal just by typing
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"EXEC-PC," wouldn't you?]
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That's it. Tomorrow, 7am, breakfast. 9-6pm, the Vendor Booths are open! ASP
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is well-represented. We will need to acquire a second table next year (still
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single Booth, but more tabletop space IS mandatory).
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P.S. - NO ONE told me how weird the booth was! A true Chinese puzzle torture
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piece. THANK GOODNESS there was an Instruction Manual. It looks SHARP for a
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IV - DAY THREE: Vendor Booth Open!
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Breakfast - nothing extraordinary. Arrived at the ASP Booth at 8:30. The
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place is abuzz with tie-straightening, last second prep, et al. The TRUE calm
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before the storm. The Vendor Booths were open from 9am to 6pm. The time went
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by quickly. Had relief for 30-45 minutes by another ASP Member who
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volunteered his services for the past couple of months. By manning the Booth
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until all attendees were gone, I missed the second Dvorak Awards Session at
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6pm.
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But the response to our message was well-received. Talked to many extremely
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interesting people. Without our Compendium to offer, I kept a list of folks
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who needed a Master Catalogue. (Spent the late hours copying diskettes in the
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Hotel - made up 100 copies of our Catalogue to give to appropriate people.
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Sure glad I brought my laptop!)
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Lance Rose and I discussed life, liberties, competition, and human nature for
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darn near 1/2 an hour. A meaningful dialogue. Left the ASP Booth for a
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couple minutes, escorting him to the PC Info Group's Booth, and having him
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autograph a copy of his book for me.
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I had attendees drop their business cards in our "FREE DRAWING" box.
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Alternatively, I supplied small forms for them to fill out. I gave away a
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prize an hour. . .well, actually more than that. Response to my request of
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ASP Authors for Prizes was fair, but didn't adequately fill all my intended
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"slots." I added several copies of my own Sysop-oriented products to make up
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for gaps. No one was disappointed! A dBase-compatible file of the ASP Booth
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Attendees will be made available as soon as it is compiled.
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I missed the 8pm Shuttle back to my Hotel. Next shuttle was at 9pm.
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Exhausted yet exhilarated, I had the Bellhop call a cab. [ASP Cash Request #2
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- $7.50]
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Didn't realize that there were so many muscles in the back of my legs, geeze
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was I sore from moving in the booth and standing all day. I chose to stay at
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the Hotel and copy our Master ASP Catalog onto 100 floppies instead of
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schmoozing on the hill.
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V - DAY FOUR: Breaking It All Down
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Same 7am Breakfast. Arrived at the Site by 8:30. I advised the dear
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gentleman who was so anxious to assist the ASP with the booth that he would be
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manning it from 9am to 11am today. There was no discussion. I was going to
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attend at least ONE Seminar of the 100+ that was happening. Jay wanted to
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attend the same session. Unfortunate.
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Dennis Hauser gave an informative talk on targeting a mailing list for your
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BBS - and marketing/advertising pieces. Got a plug for a great program - BBS
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Welcome - on tape for all to hear. BBS Welcome, written by ASP Sysop John
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Hrusovszky, is a custom-made EXEcutable that allows your Users (and potential
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Users) to experience an on-line session on your BBS. . .OFFLINE! John takes
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your Screen Shots, Bulletins, et al, and creates an incredible
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marketing/advertising program for you. Look for BBSW-103.ZIP on better BBSs
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near you!
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The Vendor Exhibits closed officially at 6pm. Most hung around until 6:30.
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Had time to run back to the hotel, shower, and shuttle back for an Invited-
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Guest-Only Bar-B-Que (well, only if the Invited Guest forked over $50.00 to
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attend. Which 400+ of us did).
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Cash bar - I thought I was at LA Int'l Airport: $4.25 for a plastic glass of
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wine. Jack Rickard told me that the reason for the "cash bar" was that if HE
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paid for the alcohol, and we fell out of a shuttle bus, we'd sue him. If WE
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bought it our-selves, his liability was lessened. Well, I was on Diet Coke
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myself, but many a disgruntled alcohol fan was heard, while gulping $4.75 cans
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of Heineken.
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Sysop Tony Davis was hanging around, looking for sympathy. His Oklahoma
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Information Exchange was raided by the Vice Squad of the OK City Police
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Department recently. Local media obtained the video that the cops took of the
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raid, adding an ethereal air to the bust. All three local TV stations played
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the tape. When asked if he knew his state's obscenity laws, Tony said
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that he did. When asked if he knew that the distribution of pornography was
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illegal in his state, Tony replied that he knew so, but "I've been doing it
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for a long time." Ignorance of the law is no excuse, dude. Facing a
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potential $100 Million in fines and over 100,000 years in jail, there was
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little sympathy for the situation.
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The most satisfying, personal moments were spent at the Bar-B-Que. No - the
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food was not all that tremendous. (And what Jack is doing with all the money
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collected is beyond me.) But I sat with three extraordinary people here.
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Please meet Scott and Karen McKown. A pleasant couple in their, oh, say, mid-
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forties. They have adult children. They live in California's Mill Valley.
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They rode AMTRAK out here - and are taking it back home (now that's either
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true LOVE, or true MASOCHISM). After talking with them for an hour, it is
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obviously the former. Scott and Karen are absorbing information to take back
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to California to set up their first BBS. A Mac BBS. Karen's a throwback to
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the 60s politically. She would get along with my older brother, who is still
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working on George McGovern's presidential election campaign. But she is not
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politically naive - she is extremely humanitarian and real in her love of
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people. Scott and Karen are both heavily involved in local and State-wide
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issues. Their BBS is being created to disseminate information to the public
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on issues of all sorts. Their dedication and love of each other and of their
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fellow citizenry is obvious - and their BBS will go anywhere they decide they
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want it to.
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A generation apart, 17-year-old Jason Rupp has flown from his home in New York
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to attend the Conference. A late Registrant, he had to fork out $325.00 just
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to walk in the Door. His grandfather lives in Denver (70 miles away from
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Colorado Springs), and they both drove up to be here. Jason came here with a
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Plan. After reading about last year's ONE BBSCON, he knew that some pretty
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good prices were to be had for software and hardware. He is attending the
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"Fame" School for Performing Artists, and he wants to set up a BBS directed
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to teenagers in his area. A chat board - with a difference. This 17-year-old
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has a marketing plan and advertising all laid out for this venture. I cannot
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think of too many individuals at ANY age with the same initial work completed
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at this point in their Sysop careers.
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Jason has filled out every FREE CONTEST DRAWING form in the house. Many
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Vendors here are holding drawings. It would be great to win a serial card, or
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software, or a modem. . .anything to help out with the initial costs of
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starting up a BBS. It is five minutes before the Vendor Exhibits close.
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Jason has arranged that his grandfather write the check for his cash
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expenditures here at the show. Grandfather has pulled out his checkbook to
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enable Jason's purchase of BBS software. When his name is called out over the
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PA system, he is floored. He just won! The GRAND PRIZE of the Show. PCBoard
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BBS Software. USRobotics Dual Standard Modem. A Pass to the Bar-B-Que.
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Lifetime Subscription to Boardwatch Magazine. And more items. Well, suffice
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it to say that he "covered" his expenses arriving here and registering.
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So, here I am, discussing, with two separate generations, starting your own
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BBS. And we are one. All desiring to share information with all others. And
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we all will be successful. The Karma is with us.
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I hate to - but I must leave. I have our Booth to break down. And I have to
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finish before midnight. The four of us embrace - honest intentions are voiced
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to keep in touch (I am faxing this to Karen, Jason will be receiving a couple
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of my offerings for his BBS.) Diet Coke, the view of the valley, and these
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three people have made me as high as could ever want to be at this event. I
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will cherish the moment for quite a while.
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The Broadmoor Hotel Shuttle Bus brings me back to our Booth - and reality.
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After swearing to myself that I was not going to take anything home with me, I
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carefully package up a few remaining diskettes and flyers, and prepare them to
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take home. The Shuttles are not able to handle excess baggage - so, when I
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finish breaking down the Booth at 11pm, I call a cab to carry our CPU, 17"
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Monitor, two boxes containing the Booth Display, and three boxes of miscel-
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laneous objects/papers. I am the last Vendor to leave. All that is left are
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fork-lift crates from the "major" vendors, and the Freeman Decorating workers.
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This cabbie gets a proportionally-larger tip. [ASP Cash Request #3 - $10.00.]
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Want to know how exhausted I am? I fall asleep during Sharon Stone's
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performance in "Sliver" on Pay Video TV.
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Editor's Note: Thanks again to Clint Bradford for his help and allowing
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reproduction of this great article. This article was edited slightly for
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length, so why not call ATTENTION to Details for the complete text. Clint's
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board is an ASP Hub, so pick up the latest in great software while you're
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there.
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During the Welcoming Session at ONE BBSCON Jim Harrer, President of Mustang
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Software Inc., had everyone stand up and asked those who were not a Sysop to
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have a seat. Harrer proceeded to seat the Sysops by going back year by year,
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having them sit down when the year they started their BBS was announced.
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After he said 1980 there were only a few still standing, and when 1979 was
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announced all but one person had sat down. "Folks, meet Ward Christensen" was
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Harrer's response.
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One of the most enjoyable ONE BBSCON sessions was Ward Christensen discussing
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his CBBS (Computerized Bulletin Board System). It has now been over fifteen
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years since that snowy Chicago February when he put the first bulletin board
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on-line. Ward Christensen began, "a history of the bulletin board...it sort
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of needs to be a history of me and it needs to be a little bit of a history of
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technology. CBBS was officially born on 2/16/78. There were a number of
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things which went into the invention of CBBS. I'd like to think of it sort of
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as an atomic explosion, where if you bring enough of the proper ingredients,
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or isotopes, together in a properly small mass and time, something will
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happen. That is sort of how the BBS happened. There were a number things
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that became feasible, so the time was just right for that."
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Ward Christensen gave a little of his personal history, "I went to college
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without knowing what I wanted to do." However, given the opportunity to learn
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how to program the IBM mainframe, Christensen went back to college, got a
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degree in Physics and went to work for IBM in 1968. He has always had a real
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love for electronics and experimented with some of the earliest modems and
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microcomputers in the mid-1970's. "A very key thing happened on January 15,
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1978, a Chicago blizzard. I went out, it was a work day, and I shoveled for a
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couple of hours and I came back in the house and saying 'there's no way.' So,
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I called up a friend of mine Randy Suess, and thus was born the bulletin
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board. Just because all the pieces fell into place. Hayes by that time had
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come up with the MicroModem 100. Diskettes, hardware and so on, had come down
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cheap enough in cost that you could have a spare one lying around. I think we
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were right at the time when the phone companies were just getting rid of the
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data access agreement, were you had to spend extra money for a little box on
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the wall that you hook your modem to. There was a time where you had to
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register modems."
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As the session continued Ward Christensen talked about the software which he
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wrote, and the hardware put together by Randy Suess. He also talked about the
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name for the 8080 2 MHz based system. "A lot of people say 'oh, is that the
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Christensen Bulletin Board System or the Chicago Bulletin Board System?' No,
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it's the Computerized Bulletin Board System, so we had to start kind of
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simple. My intent was to simply computerize the idea of a cork-board, push-
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pin type bulletin board. What sort of hardware environment was it born on?
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Something that would make you wonder how could it run, when we talk about 33
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MHz 486's. It was in fact a X-100. It had 64K on it. Dual floppy disks, a
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quarter of a Meg a piece, with the 8" single sided floppy of the day. And, a
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Hayes MicroModem 100. The software? The program was written in 8080
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assembler, somewhere in the tens of thousands of lines of code. So, the
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system went up sometime in early February, we call it officially February 16,
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1978, which was one month to the day of when it was first conceived."
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Many of the commands used on that first board remain common to most of today's
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BBS software packages. There was "S" which gave a Summary of the messages,
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very much like today's scan command. "R" stood for Retrieve a Message, "E"
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for Enter a Message and "K" for Kill a Message. "B" presented the bulletins,
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"G" was for Good-bye and there was on-line help and an expert mode. Christian
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joked "it was always fun when someone came along and just wanted to play
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alphabet soup. They'd hit A, what's that do, B what's that do, C what's do,
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whoops, now I'm all upper case. D what's that do, whoops, I can't see what
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I'm typing. So it was interesting watching people play with it. There were a
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lot of video games on the early bulletin boards, even though they weren't
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video games." Ward Christensen got some laughs when he talked of injecting
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some of his personality into the system. He had it set up to log-off problem
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users after a random number of key-stokes, or if an objectionable word was
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entered.
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What does Ward Christian see for the future of the BBS? "I think that what
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has happened is certainly good, with the expansion of the systems. I have a
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fear that some of the boards may open themselves to criticism, some of the
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adult boards and so on. I tend to be a very open person, I feel that people
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should be able to do sort of what they want to in privacy, and even have
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access to things. I am concerned about some of that, it might be used as an
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excuse to harm us all. I am also terrified, as is everyone, that they might
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just suddenly say okay this has got to be business phones rates, or this is
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going to cost more. It would be important to keep the freedoms that hobbyist
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have now. My biggest concern is will it be for the elite, or will it be for
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the masses?"
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CBBS is still up and running in Chicago and can be reached at (312) 545-8086.
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I had the opportunity to have lunch with Ward Christensen right before he gave
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his session at the ONE BBSCON. I asked him if he was a little overwhelmed by
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the thought of all these people gathered to discuss bulletin boards. He
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replied "quite frankly, I am."
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1993 Dvorak Telecommunications Awards
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The 1993 Dvorak/Zoom Telecommunications Awards were handed out at the
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Broadmoor Hotel as part of the ONE BBSCON. John Dvorak is a well known
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columnist for several popular PC related magazines and is the co-author of the
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best selling Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications. Cosponsoring the event
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was Zoom Telephonics, a manufacturer of telecommunications products including
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modems. John Dvorak proved to be really good Master of Ceremonies and started
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off with a joke. "I was talking with one of the guys, one of the recipients,
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about how the awards got started and I realize that we really don't know."
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Dennis Hayes received the "Lifetime Achievement" award. He was one of the
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earliest pioneers of modem technology and founded Hayes Microcomputer
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Products, Inc. in 1978. Upon accepting the award Hayes begun, "I'm proud of
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what we've done, but I'm really proud of what you've done. I saw Ward
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Christensen a while ago walking around in the visitable area. I said 'Ward,
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we got to be careful what we start because it may just catch on.'" Dennis
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Hayes talked a little about the past, present, future, and his support for the
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BBS community. "We've supported this activity from the very beginning, from
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the first bulletin board development. And, we want to continue to support it
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in the way it develops and grows and becomes an interval part of the way we
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create new kinds of communities that don't depend on location and don't depend
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on time."
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John Dvorak presented Tim Stryker a special award for his work with
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Galacticomm, Inc. and the Superdemocracy Foundation. Gregory Pearson, of
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Microcom Systems, Inc. and the developer of the MNP protocol, won for
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"Outstanding Software/Firmware Contribution." Motorola's Codex division,
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designers of the V.fast technology, won for "Outstanding Hardware
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Contribution." The creators of the RIPscrip BBS graphics, Telegrafix
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Communications, Inc., picked up the award for "Outstanding Advanced BBS
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Graphics Standard."
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Aquila BBS, located in Aurroa, Illinois, won the award for "Outstanding BBS
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Organization, Features, and Design." Data Port Network Information System, a
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system operated by a teenage Sysop, won for "Outstanding BBS Gateway To
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Multiple Information Services." The award for "Outstanding International
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Connectivity" went to Internet. CompuServe won for "Outstanding On-Line
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Information Service." John Markoff won for "Outstanding Reporting in
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Telecommunications." John Markoff currently writes for the New York Times and
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is the author of "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier."
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J. Owen Greeson received an award for "Outstanding Ongoing Software
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Contributions."
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John Dvorak wrapped up the ceremony by stating "we bribe people to come to our
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events," and turned it over to his co-author on Dvorak's Guide to PC
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Telecommunications Nick Anis. Prizes were handed out to everyone in
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attendance, some got software or hardware, most got a copy of Dvorak and
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In this day of what George Bush called "New World Order," or more specially
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the crumbling of the Communist regime in the old Soviet Union, maybe games
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USSR war games were some of the first found in the on-line world.
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The earliest Global Thermonuclear War games are still floating around on BBSs,
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most of the time without all the documentation, so it is tough giving proper
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credit to the originators of the first entirely text based efforts. The story
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was always the same, you have the choice of playing either the NATO alliance
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or the Warsaw Pact, and take a step back in time to the days of the Cold War.
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You enter selections on which cites to bomb, and in some games where to launch
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the missiles from, and sit back and watch the dead add up. When it was over
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you had the choice of a going for a second strike, or not.
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A recent rendition of the early classics was released this year by Free Speech
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Software of Prairieview, Louisiana. They have taken the text based system for
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entering both targets and launch sites, and added some more modern graphics to
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display the end result. After entering all the data you can watch the
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missiles, from both sides, track across a colorful world map headed towards
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their targeted cites. One thing you can do in this version, just for fun, is
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target neutral cities, like Tokyo or Peking. With each hit the number of dead
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is displayed and at the end of the game the dead are totaled. There is an
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º Editor: CLARK D. GILBO ßÛ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ º
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º Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝ º
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º This is a 813 BBS Directory ßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ º
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º ßÛÛÛß º
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º "NOT JUST A BBS LISTING ÜÜþ º
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º BUT A DIRECTORY" ÜÜßßßß º
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º Westcoast 813 BBS Directory, 4348 Plaza Dr. Suite #V103, Holiday, Florida º
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Yes, More Symbols
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Some of the more common BBS symbols have been run in prior issues of the
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magazine. Some users like to add symbols to messages to convey some sense of
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feeling and some think of them as emotional icons, or "emoticons." You have
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likely seen things like :-) (the smiling happy face) in BBS messages. Some of
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the other symbols are far more complex and not so self explanatory. Here are,
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yes, more symbols. It might help to turn your head, as most symbols are on
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their sides.
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:-] Smiley blockhead
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:-| No expression, or have an ordinary day
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:-> A real happy user
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:-I Hmm, thinking
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@:I User with a turban
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|-D Ho, ho
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O-) User is wearing a scuba mask
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B-| User is wearing cheap sunglasses
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:>) User has a big nose
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{:-) Smiley with hair parted down the middle
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:-< User is real sad
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*-( Cyclops got poked in the eye
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<|-)= User is Chinese
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>:-< User is mad
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:-6 User has eaten something sour
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:-# User's lips are sealed
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=:-) User is a hose-head
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:-e User is disappointed
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*:o) User is a bozo
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|-P Yuk
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º P O BOX 326 º
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º MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA º
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º 14,4Kps, V.32bis(up to 57,600bps º
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º º 24 Hours A Day º º
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º Download privileges upon registration º
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º HELP US TO BECOME NORTH CAROLINA'S LARGEST BBS º
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Can you figure out this months word puzzle? Complete the puzzle by choosing
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the letters from the columns directly underneath. Each letter can only be
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used once and the left over
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words spell out a message. ÉÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍÑÍ»
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It might be best to hit º ³ ³ ³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³ ³²³²³²³²³²³²º
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your print screen key, as ÇÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅĶ
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it is hard to write on º²³²³²³²³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³ ³ ³²³ ³ º
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your monitor. The answer, ÇÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅĶ
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and another puzzle, will º ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³ ³²³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³ ³²³ ³ º
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appear next month. ÌÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØÍØ͹
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Last month's answers: ÇÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅĶ
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Atlas was a weakling ºD³H³N³R³O³O³U³S³E³N³S³L³E³O³E³E³E³T³N³L³Pº
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compared to the American ÇÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅÄÅĶ
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taxpayer. Left over ºT³A³B³A³E³T³I³G³I³M³O³S³J³R³T³H³Q³D³T³U³Tº
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letters spell: Bulletin ÈÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏÍÏͼ
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B U L L E T I N B O A R D S Y S T E M!
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ·ÖÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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ÚÄÙ Archive Utils, Comm Files Ƕ LARGE ADULT SECTION ÀÄ¿
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ÚÄÙ Business, Desktop, Editors, ºº R and X Rated ÀÄ¿
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³ Finance, Games, Graphics Filesºº Gif's, DL Movies ³
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³ Menu Files, Misc Utility Filesºº GL Movies, Cartoons ³
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ÀÄ¿ Printer Utilites, Windows, ºº Adult Games ÚÄÙ
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ÀÄ¿ Utils, Word Processors,etcǶ Short Adult Stories ÚÄÙ
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Pasco Data Lines (813) 780-8452 (813) 783-9926 1200/38,400
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Tampa Data LInes (813) 973-0241 (813) 973-0371 1200/38,400
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2.5 + GIGS ON LINE STORAGE
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PASCO BBS MAGAZINE Distribution Site
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Zephyrhills, Florida
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ Special Requirements ³ VGA ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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Super Ball Review
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Super Ball is somewhat like the old game of Bricks and very much like the more
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modern Arkanoid game. While you attempt to pick off the rows of bricks, there
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are falling objects to contend with, some are helpful and some are not. There
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are falling coins, shields, extra lifes, power ups, and several other items
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including bombs. The first couple of levels are not that difficult, but the
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challenge picks up dramatically after that. Super Ball has beautiful VGA
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graphics and is an excellent rendition of the earlier classics.
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Raoul Said has "This Program is Free to the Public" on the games's first
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screen, but does also offer incentives for two different levels of
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registration. For $5 you can have secret access to the Mystery Level, and for
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$12 you get ten more levels and several new Mystery Levels.
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Super Ball is well done and enjoyable, but sound card support would be a great
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addition for a future version. Also, it sure is tough to break into the high
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scores list.
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ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
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Éͼ º ³ THE ECO/ANIMAL/ART/MUSIC BBS Û ÈÍ»
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Éͼ ÇÄÄÄÄÁ¿ ÄÒÄ ÒÄÄ¿ ÒÄÄ¿ Ò ÖÄÄ¿ ÖÄÄ¿ ÒÄÄ¿ Û ÈÍ»
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Éͼ º ³ º ÇÄÂÙ º ³ º ÇÄÄ´ º ³ º ³ Ü ÈÍ»
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³ ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ *NATIONAL CONFERENCES INCLUDING:* ³
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BBS Basics Now Available
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BBS Basics, which ran in the first nine issues of the Pasco BBS Magazine,
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began as a column for new bulletin board users. Now the entire run of BBS
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Basics has been compiled into a file called BBBASICS.ZIP. It is good
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general information for those who are new to BBSing, and includes last
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month's BBS Glossary. Sysops might want to consider posting BBS Basics as
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a bulletin for their new users. BBS Basics can be freely posted, or
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distributed, with the normal stipulation that the file remain unaltered.
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BBBASICS.ZIP should be available at all of the Pasco BBS Magazine
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Distribution Sites and, of course, is on the Board of Trade BBS.
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² Member of... ²
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² Official Distribution Site ²
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² Apogee Software, Digital Reality, Epic MegaGames, Gamer's Edge, ²
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The November issue will continue our coverage of the ONE BBSCON. BBSCON
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Day Two will have much more on the convention, including some of the
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lighter moments. There will be an article on ISDN with Dennis Hayes
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talking about this new telephone technology. As always, there may be a
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surprise or two.
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Important Information
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The Pasco BBS Magazine is distributed free of charge, as long as it is
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unaltered and complete. When uploading make sure the original archive is
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intact with all files included.
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The Pasco BBS Magazine is the sole property of the Board of Trade BBS and
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Richard Ziegler. It is legally copyrighted material and all rights are
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reserved. No part of this magazine may be used without permission. By
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submitting something, you are agreeing to allow publication of the material
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in the magazine. Articles reprinted with permission remain the property of
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the cited source. Guest contributions may not necessarily reflect the views
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of the Pasco BBS Magazine. The editor reserves the right to edit
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submissions, however, this is normally only done to correct spelling or
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grammatical errors. The editor makes all determinations on what and when
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articles will run.
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Every effort is made to insure that all information contained within the
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Pasco BBS Magazine is accurate, but inadvertently mistakes can appear.
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The Pasco BBS Magazine, Board of Trade BBS or Richard Ziegler cannot be held
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liable for information contained within this document. It is intended that
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this magazine exists for the personal enjoyment of the readers.
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Rather than place a trademark symbol at every occurrence of a trademarked
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name, it is stated that trademarks are only being used in an editorial
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fashion with no intention of any infringement of the trademark itself.
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More information can be found in the other files distributed with the
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magazine's archive.
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Comments, questions, suggestions and submissions can be left on the Board
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of Trade BBS (813) 862-4772, or mailed to Board of Trade BBS, P.O. Box 1853,
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New Port Richey, FL 34656. There is also a voice number now available at
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(813) 863-5886.
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(C)Copyright 1993 Richard Ziegler - All Rights Reserved
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