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<H1>BBS Textfiles: The Jason Scott / TEXTFILES.COM Printout Collection</H1>
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During my time using BBSes in the 1980's, I would often make use of the Epson MX-80
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line printer connected to my father's IBM PC XT, and print out messages and files for
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later reading. Usually, this was to be able to read the files in a place different
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than the computer room, like the backyard deck or in a car. How well this usually
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worked out escapes me, but it meant that I slowly built a very large collection of
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printouts, ranging from 1983 through to 1985.
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In the early 1990s, to divest myself of my childhood, I gave the box of these
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printouts to a friend, and never expected to see them again. In 2001, that friend
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noted the amount of work I'd been doing with BBS textfiles and asked me if I wanted
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the box back, which I gladly accepted.
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Many of these printouts are of files already existent on TEXTFILES.COM, and are
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already saved. But many others are not; they are printouts of the message bases
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of BBSes I was calling at the time, right from the screen as they scrolled by
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into the printer. They are therefore entirely unabridged handfuls of historical
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data from these BBSes, some of which were busted, others completely gone in
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memories and time. In some cases, these printouts, 20 years after the fact, may
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be the remaining evidence the board ever existed.
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This collection consists of those printouts, captured using Optical Character
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Recognition (OCR) software and then hand-edited to the best of my ability to accurately
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represent the printout they came from. As these writings of events decades past
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come to light, they give context, information, and insight.
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<TABLE WIDTH=100%>
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<TD BGCOLOR=#00FF00><FONT COLOR=#000000><B>Filename</B><BR></FONT></TD>
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<TD BGCOLOR=#00DD00><FONT COLOR=#000000><B>Size</B><BR></FONT></TD>
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<TD BGCOLOR=#00AA00><FONT COLOR=#000000><B>Description of the Textfile</B><BR></TD></TR>
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<tab indent=60 id=T><br>
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198404shmovie.txt">198404shmovie.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 18993<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Movie Alcove (Movie Reviews) on Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198406shcable.txt">198406shcable.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 10194<BR><TD> MESSAGES: The Cable TV Room Sub-Board, The Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (June-October, 1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/19840825cracking.txt">19840825cracking.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 5519<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Cracking Tips and Procedures Conference, from Unknown BBS (August, 1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198408shpolitics.txt">198408shpolitics.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 17067<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Debate Den Sub-Board, The Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (August-September, 1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198409utbbs.txt">198409utbbs.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 5816<BR><TD> MESSAGES: BBS Number Sub-Board from the Utopia BBS (Chicago) (September, 1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198410phreak.txt">198410phreak.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 24006<BR><TD> MESSAGES: General Phreak Sub-Board from Sherwood Forest III (September-October, 1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/1984hhileswel.txt">1984hhileswel.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 2426<BR><TD> Welcome Screen for the Hollow Hills BBS (December, 1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/1984sf2hv.txt">1984sf2hv.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 8441<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Hacking messages, phile listings, and user-level settings from Sherwood Forest II (Circa 1984, based on other printouts)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/1985011985random.txt">1985011985random.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 9250<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Random Board (Any topic allowed) from 1985 BBS (January-February, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198502phreak.txt">198502phreak.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 7713<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Phreak Sub-Board from the Utopia BBS (January-February, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198503general.txt">198503general.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 25622<BR><TD> MESSAGES: General Message Base from the 1985 BBS in Minneapolis (March, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198503luding.txt">198503luding.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 23878<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Luding Messages from the 1985 BBS In Minneapolis (March, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198504citadel.txt">198504citadel.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 8210<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Message base from unknown newly-built Citadel BBS (NY) (April, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198504shphreak.txt">198504shphreak.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 15336<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Phreaking Sub-Board from the Safehouse BBS (Minneapolis) (April, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198505privsectp.txt">198505privsectp.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 45335<BR><TD> MESSAGES: The Private Sector BBS, Main Board (Board was Seized Two Months Later) (May, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/198507millscan.txt">198507millscan.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 10075<BR><TD> MESSAGES: New-Scan from various message bases on the Milliways BBS (Princeton, NJ) (July 18, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/1985bbsboard.txt">1985bbsboard.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 7042<BR><TD> MESSAGES: BBS Advertisement Sub-Board on 1985 BBS (Minneapolis) (April, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/1985milliwaysu.txt">1985milliwaysu.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 3166<BR><TD> Milliways BBS (Princeton, NJ) User List (Circa 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/1985sf3found.txt">1985sf3found.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 19308<BR><TD> MESSAGES: The Found Board, from Sherwood Forest III BBS (January, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/savedragonfire.txt">savedragonfire.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 715<BR><TD> A Plea from the Sysop of Dragonfire BBS to Give Funds
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/sdcollection.txt">sdcollection.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 7332<BR><TD> 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)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/shsdchat.txt">shsdchat.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 5563<BR><TD> Chats Between The Slipped Disk (Jason Scott) and the Sysops of The Pirate's Chest and Satan's Hollow ][ (May 27, 1985)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/spstrategies.txt">spstrategies.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 14793<BR><TD> MESSAGES: Strategies Sub-Board from the South Pole BBS (Illinois) (1984)
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<TR VALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN=TOP><A HREF="PRINTOUTS/suspendfunnies.txt">suspendfunnies.txt</A> <tab to=T><TD> 853<BR><TD> Try Some of the Following After You Have Solved Infocom's Suspended
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</TABLE><P><TABLE WIDTH=100%><TR><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><SMALL>There are 24 files for a total of 296,653 bytes.</SMALL></TABLE> |