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BBS Textfiles: The Jason Scott / TEXTFILES.COM Printout Collection

During my time using BBSes in the 1980's, I would often make use of the Epson MX-80

line printer connected to my father's IBM PC XT, and print out messages and files for

later reading. Usually, this was to be able to read the files in a place different

than the computer room, like the backyard deck or in a car. How well this usually

worked out escapes me, but it meant that I slowly built a very large collection of

printouts, ranging from 1983 through to 1985.

In the early 1990s, to divest myself of my childhood, I gave the box of these

printouts to a friend, and never expected to see them again. In 2001, that friend

noted the amount of work I'd been doing with BBS textfiles and asked me if I wanted

the box back, which I gladly accepted.

Many of these printouts are of files already existent on TEXTFILES.COM, and are

already saved. But many others are not; they are printouts of the message bases

of BBSes I was calling at the time, right from the screen as they scrolled by

into the printer. They are therefore entirely unabridged handfuls of historical

data from these BBSes, some of which were busted, others completely gone in

memories and time. In some cases, these printouts, 20 years after the fact, may

be the remaining evidence the board ever existed.

This collection consists of those printouts, captured using Optical Character

Recognition (OCR) software and then hand-edited to the best of my ability to accurately

represent the printout they came from. As these writings of events decades past

come to light, they give context, information, and insight.

198404shmovie.txt

MESSAGES: Movie Alcove (Movie Reviews) on Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (1984)

198406shcable.txt

MESSAGES: The Cable TV Room Sub-Board, The Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (June-October, 1984)

19840825cracking.txt

MESSAGES: Cracking Tips and Procedures Conference, from Unknown BBS (August, 1984)

198408shpolitics.txt

MESSAGES: Debate Den Sub-Board, The Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (August-September, 1984)

198409utbbs.txt

MESSAGES: BBS Number Sub-Board from the Utopia BBS (Chicago) (September, 1984)

198410phreak.txt

MESSAGES: General Phreak Sub-Board from Sherwood Forest III (September-October, 1984)

1984hhileswel.txt

Welcome Screen for the Hollow Hills BBS (December, 1984)

1984sf2hv.txt

MESSAGES: Hacking messages, phile listings, and user-level settings from Sherwood Forest II (Circa 1984, based on other printouts)

1985011985random.txt

MESSAGES: Random Board (Any topic allowed) from 1985 BBS (January-February, 1985)

198502phreak.txt

MESSAGES: Phreak Sub-Board from the Utopia BBS (January-February, 1985)

198503general.txt

MESSAGES: General Message Base from the 1985 BBS in Minneapolis (March, 1985)

198503luding.txt

MESSAGES: Luding Messages from the 1985 BBS In Minneapolis (March, 1985)

198504citadel.txt

MESSAGES: Message base from unknown newly-built Citadel BBS (NY) (April, 1985)

198504shphreak.txt

MESSAGES: Phreaking Sub-Board from the Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (April, 1985)

198505privsectp.txt

MESSAGES: The Private Sector BBS, Main Board (Board was Seized Two Months Later) (May, 1985)

198507millscan.txt

MESSAGES: New-Scan from various message bases on the Milliways BBS (Princeton, NJ) (July 18, 1985)

1985bbsboard.txt

MESSAGES: BBS Advertisement Sub-Board on 1985 BBS (Minneapolis) (April, 1985)

1985milliwaysu.txt

Milliways BBS (Princeton, NJ) User List (Circa 1985)

1985sf3found.txt

MESSAGES: The Found Board, from Sherwood Forest III BBS (January, 1985)

savedragonfire.txt

A Plea from the Sysop of Dragonfire BBS to Give Funds

sdcollection.txt

The Slipped Disk's Complete & Whole Document List: Predecessor to TEXTFILES.COM with a rough listing of files and what floppies have a copy of the file (Circa 1984-5)

shsdchat.txt

Chats Between The Slipped Disk (Jason Scott) and the Sysops of The Pirate's Chest and Satan's Hollow ][ (May 27, 1985)

spstrategies.txt

MESSAGES: Strategies Sub-Board from the South Pole BBS (Illinois) (1984)

suspendfunnies.txt

Try Some of the Following After You Have Solved Infocom's Suspended