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Many BBSes had "file sections", where you could use XMODEM (and later
YMODEM, ZMODEM, KERMIT, and a bunch of other specifications) to download
programs and files to your local machine, and run them. This was amazing;
use the modem, get a program! Of course, over time, it became a point
of pride to say how many programs you had online, and file sections
grew to enormous sizes. Some captured file listings are presented
below.
Why include such a mundane aspect of the BBS world? Well, for the same
reason that it was great that people took random street shots of cities
thoughout the last century. Even though they seemed boring and uneventful,
the progression of time away from when the picture was taken gives it
interest. Maybe someone will browse a file list and see a program that was
their favorite; maybe they'll see that there was a embryonic version of
a program they use to this day, that was billed a lot different. No
matter; there's a thousand stories buried in these listings. You might
hear them tell one to you.
Master Filelist for the Big Dreams FAXable CEC
FILELISTS: The Access System, Huntsville, AL (September 9, 1992)
FILELISTS: The Access System, Huntsville, AL (July 20, 1992)
The Damage Incorporated File List and Collection of Paradise City BBS, from Blackened
File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)
File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)
File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)
File List of the Owlabama MENSA BBS List (Birmingham, AL)
Listing of Files from the Altered States BBS
FILE LISTING: The Datastorm BBS
FILELIST: Texts from the Wonderland BBS in Billerica MA (June 12, 1990)
File List: CYBERSPACE Headquarters BBS (June 1993)
Altered States (BBS) Files Areas as of May 25th, 1992
FILELIST: The Temple of the Screaming Electron (June 6, 1992)
FILELIST: The Circuit Cellar BBS Master File List
Large File Listing of all sorts of Typical Textfiles a BBS Might Have (Phreaking Oriented)
FILELIST: Fuzzy Logic BBS (Circa 1994)
File System of the Liberty Bell BBS
File List of the Rocket City VBBS (Huntsville, AL) (April, 1992)
Huge Listing of Files from the MB BBS (March 15, 1993)
Filelist for the Northern Lights BBS
File List of the Owlabama MENSA BBS List (Birmingham, AL)
FILELIST: Rocket City VBBS (1992)
FILELIST: The Snakepit BBS (1989)
FILE LIST: Southern Express BBS (1992)
FILE LIST: NASA Spacelink File List (1992)
Complete File Listings of the Psychotronic BBS (March 31, 1992)
FILELIST: The Dark Realm BBS in Sweden (January 3, 1993)
FILELIST: Never Never Land (Sweden)
File List of the Temple of the Screaming Electron BBS (June 8, 1993)