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4 unusual facts about BBS


BBS: The Documentary

# Baud: the beginnings of the first BBSes, featuring Ward Christensen and Randy Suess 39:12

Scott Brinker

Some of Brinker's experiences with Galacticomm are recounted in the film BBS: The Documentary.

Tandy 2000

There was also a BBS based in Texas that had an extensive library of compatible software available for download; neither the BBS nor its web-based descendant is active today.

Luckily many terminal programs were available for the Tandy 2000 and many were used to log on to BBS's, e-mail, etc.


Allie Bates

In the early days of the internet, she worked in Writer's Ink and Macintosh BBS on GEnie.

ATASCII

Some Atari-based BBSs exploited this difference by asking the client to hit the "Return" key.

BBS software for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

The user interface was modeled directly on Nick Naimo's Networks II BBS software which had been written for the Apple 2.

BDWM BBS

BDWM (Simplified Chinese: 北大未名; pinyin: běidà wèimíng;) BBS is the official BBS of Peking University, and it's one of the most popular bulletin board system sites among the universities in China.

Berlin British School

BBS occupies the premises of Charlottenburg First School, a SCE school for children of British Forces Germany personnel which closed after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the withdrawal of British troops from Berlin.

Conrad R. Button

Conrad R. Button is a text game programmer who created a series of educational and recreational shareware text adventure titles distributed via BBSs and through Reasonable Solutions catalogs as "Button Games."

Dave's own version of Citadel

ISCABBS, formerly bbs.isca.uiowa.edu, now at bbs.iscabbs.com, home of DOC

Dave's own version of Citadel (DOC) is a variant of the Citadel/UX Bulletin board system (BBS) software which was developed specifically to run ISCA BBS in the late 1980s.

David Whatley

Whatley attended McCluer North High School, graduating in 1984, and was involved in the early BBS culture, writing the FRPBBS software for his privately owned company, Deep Pan Software.

FastEcho

You could also use FastEcho if you were a BBS user and did all your mail stuff offline like QWK and Blue Wave users did.

GT-Power

GT Power is a bulletin board system (BBS) and dial-up telecommunications/terminal application for the DOS family of operating systems.

Invisible Pink Unicorn

The concept was further developed by a group of college students from 1994 to 1995 on the ISCA Telnet-based BBS.

ISCABBS

Many of the Parti users had migrated over from a student created BBS called BBS1 (circa 1985) which was accessed from its creator's personal account "astran" on the University of Iowa mainframe computer PrimeA.

Lily Chou-Chou

The BBS on this website is a crucial feature to the plot of the film.

McBBS

The program featured all the standard functions of a BBS of the time including file transfers in several competing protocols (XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM-G, ZMODEM) provided with the program or as third party software; they connected externally to the main program itself.

The net result, when used with the appropriate translation software (also supplied by McDonald and company), was audible, if low-resolution music; a demonstration given by McDonald himself once showed the BBS playing The Rolling Stone's "You Can't Always Get What You Want", and the William Tell Overture, coded using a simple text editor.

MIT BBS

However, its history can be traced to two earlier forums: the Unknown BBS at Peking University, China from 1996-1997, followed by the Space BBS at Center for Space Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mosler Automotive

A Photon variant is available which adds a Hewland transmission, thinwall subframes, BBS magnesium wheels, titanium springs, and carbon fiber seats and bodywork, reducing the car's mass to 1,980 lb (900 kg).

Networks II

It is one of the earlier BBS software programs to be written for the Apple II, which was at the time dominated by mini and mainframe-based BBS', including CBBS.

Offline reader

The two most common formats for FidoNet BBS's were Blue Wave and QWK.

Penalty flag

Many officials previously weighted flags with BBs, but the practice was largely discontinued after a flag thrown by NFL referee Jeff Triplette struck Cleveland Browns offensive tackle Orlando Brown in the eye during a 1999 game vs. the Jacksonville Jaguars, causing a serious injury to Brown, who later attacked Triplette and threw him to the ground.

Pitam Pura

One of those big ones is Keshav Mahavidyalaya, popular for Bachelor of Commerce & Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) and Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce and the other is Kasturba Polytechnic For Women.

Purple Ocean

The Purple Ocean BBS was best known for its numerous gaming features including numerous different versions and scenarios of Trade Wars 1000, 2000, and 2002.

Raybert Productions

Raybert was also the predecessor to BBS Productions, a New Hollywood production company founded by Rafelson, Schneider, and Schneider’s childhood friend Stephen Blauner.

After producing Five Easy Pieces in 1969, the two partners took on a third partner, Stephen Blauner, naming their expanded company BBS Productions (for Bert, Bob and Steve).

Remote imaging protocol

These were sent from the BBS instead of the more common ANSI color-coded text-mode screens, and were interpreted on the user's end by a RIP-enabled terminal program such as TeleGrafix's own RIPTerm which could draw them at a 640x350 EGA resolution.

Roger Luk

Roger Luk Koon-ho, BBS, JP (born 10 August 1951, Hong Kong) was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1992–95) and the Assistant General Manager of the Hang Seng Bank.

Scouting and Guiding in Queensland

Other groups could have been formed in Queensland by the Boy's Brigade Scouts, British Boy Scouts (BBS), Imperial Boy Scouts (IBS), Anglican Church Lads' Brigade's Church Scout Patrols, Girl Peace Scouts and YMCA Scouts.

Searchlight BBS

Searchlight BBS rapidly grew in popularity, and appeared frequently in Boardwatch magazine and at BBS conventions across the United States.

Sezam

The original BBS software, specially developed by Sezam's founders, Zoran Životić and Dejan Ristanović, enabled users to share their comments about computers, education, sports, politics...

Shinji Orito

He used to visit a music BBS named Unison-BBS; Orito named his dōjin circle Unison Label after the website, which has since disappeared from the Internet.

Synchronet

In April 1992, Swindell's employer went out of business and he began to rely exclusively on commercial sales of Synchronet for his livelihood, placing advertisements in the BBS-related magazines Boardwatch and BBS Callers Digest.

It was also the first BBS package with RIP support, in version 1b revision 1, released January 23, 1993.

The Bread Board System

He originally created the software as the result of a poker game with friends that were praising the BBS software created by Ward Christensen.

Tummyrub

Tummyrub is one of the first music bands to distribute their music freely with electronic means through Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and FidoNet and later on the Internet.

Visakha Express

The Visakha Express is a daily express train of the Indian Railways connecting Secunderabad (SC) to Bhubaneshwar (BBS), popularized by the 2008 Tollywood movie of the same name.


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