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File Listings

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.

170-609.asc

Master Filelist for the Big Dreams FAXable CEC

access.lst

FILELISTS: The Access System, Huntsville, AL (September 9, 1992)

access.old

FILELISTS: The Access System, Huntsville, AL (July 20, 1992)

ajfafile.txt

The Damage Incorporated File List and Collection of Paradise City BBS, from Blackened

allfile1.txt

File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)

allfile2.txt

File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)

allfile3.txt

File List of the Matrix BBS (Birmingham, AL) (July, 1992)

allfiles.lst

File List of the Owlabama MENSA BBS List (Birmingham, AL)

asblist.txt

Listing of Files from the Altered States BBS

bbsfiles.cat

FILE LISTING: The Datastorm BBS

catalog.6

FILELIST: Texts from the Wonderland BBS in Billerica MA (June 12, 1990)

cybahq.lst

File List: CYBERSPACE Headquarters BBS (June 1993)

filearea.txt

Altered States (BBS) Files Areas as of May 25th, 1992

filelist.txt

FILELIST: The Temple of the Screaming Electron (June 6, 1992)

filelst.txt

FILELIST: The Circuit Cellar BBS Master File List

files.bbs

Large File Listing of all sorts of Typical Textfiles a BBS Might Have (Phreaking Oriented)

fuzzylogic.txt

FILELIST: Fuzzy Logic BBS (Circa 1994)

liberty.txt

File System of the Liberty Bell BBS

mastlist.txt

File List of the Rocket City VBBS (Huntsville, AL) (April, 1992)

mbfile.txt

Huge Listing of Files from the MB BBS (March 15, 1993)

north444.lst

Filelist for the Northern Lights BBS

owlabama.lst

File List of the Owlabama MENSA BBS List (Birmingham, AL)

rocktcty.lst

FILELIST: Rocket City VBBS (1992)

snakepit.dld.txt

FILELIST: The Snakepit BBS (1989)

southexp.lst

FILE LIST: Southern Express BBS (1992)

spacelnk.lst

FILE LIST: NASA Spacelink File List (1992)

sysop.txt

Complete File Listings of the Psychotronic BBS (March 31, 1992)

tdrfiles.txt

FILELIST: The Dark Realm BBS in Sweden (January 3, 1993)

totlist.txt

FILELIST: Never Never Land (Sweden)

totselist.txt

File List of the Temple of the Screaming Electron BBS (June 8, 1993)

wfobbs.lst

FILELIST: Werewolves From Outerspace (1,300 Files)