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\ _ _ Overview of The Works, The second release of death to the cold, \
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\ (_><_) heartless world of the night and the darkened phone. \
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\_____][___ \
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,\ Conceived and written by Jason M. Scott, The SysOp, with a \
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_______ \ little existential help from Ferrah T. Ferret, a.k.a. The \
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/ \____> Terror Ferret, and William the Donut, a.k.a. Bildo. This file \
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/ is my own creation, and it was made on the night of 7/16/86. \
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Did you know the only word that changes meaning with capitalization is the
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word polish? Anyway....
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I found myself with a desire to call up some BBS's on this late
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evening/morning, and then it occurred to me: I had no reason to! I could go
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on my OWN board, The Works. But, there seemed to be a magic involved with
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other people's BBSs that didn't show itself with mine. This maddened me, and I
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sat down and thought about why this had happened....
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Being a SysOp is a fun process, one that I like very much. I'm a Co-SysOp of
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Milliways and OSUNY, two great boards, and I recently got my own BBS up. I
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chose PC-BOARD v10.0 over the other programs availiable because it seemed the
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best for my needs...
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It's been three months since I started the BBS, and things have been going
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well. Generally, when people paged me, I would answer, be myself, be friendly,
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be helpful. I'm a text-file collector, and I have a collection of over 1000
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text-files, so I decided to be a text-file only BBS. This, I thought, has been
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a good choice. People have complained, but I've found that people ALWAYS
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complain, and I don't worry, because this is MY system, and I like my system to
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be run with fun in mind, not catering to a few special interests (in the
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text-file realm).
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Ya know, I'm already losing it. It's like 3:00pm in the morning. I'm
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finding it hard to type, and the screen's getting blurry, but I'll continue.
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Anyway, This BBS is running off of an IBM PC with 10 megs, and a printer,
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plotter, two 360k drives, 512k, and a Hayes 300/1200 modem. This is a fairly
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large system, and It's a sight to look at.
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The Co-SysOp is a ferret and people have asked me why there is a rodent
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involved in the process. The answer is, Choice C.
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She's crawling around now, in fact. She lives in the same room as the
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computer, and the beeping wakes her up. So, I'm forced to shut it off (the
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computer, not the ferret.)
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There's a REALLY bad commercial on the radio right now, and it's
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bothering me. I'm finding myself really cranky, and that's bothersome. I've
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always thought that it's hard to keep concentrating on a good text-file (or
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g-phile for you subversive types who thing that letting the air out of
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somebody's tires is a full night of anarchy) and the content might get screwed
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up a bit. Well, I guess that's too bad.
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What I think the best thing to do here is to just read through this little
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essay, and you'll get the general idea of my board. I hope. Or maybe you'll get
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a wierd idea, and that's okay too. You'll have to be shot in that case. The
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number, by the way, is (914)/238-8195. Just in case that's what you're looking
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for, which then would be a waste of my time because you're spending no time
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looking at the true content of this file.
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Incidentally, you could be anywhere when you read this. In my opinion
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(humble I suppose) it's not a "geeky" or "nerdy" thing to print out text-files
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and read them later, like at school or at the job, or even on the beach. This
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is all just reading material anyway, so the only difference is the source (not
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the database, idiot) and the source can sometimes be quite accurate and
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entertaining. This file was written in the night, and should really be read in
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the night, because then you're brain is where mine is, and you won't notice the
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actual inaneness that exists in my writing. On the other hand, you could read
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it when you're coherent, and analyze my writing. That would be unfair, `cause I
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really am unarmed.
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If a teacher somehow gets a hold of this, I want you to know that there are
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kids in your class that are smarter than you, and until you accept that fact,
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you'll never be liked, and you won't succeed at your goals.
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Back to the board. When I'm on my board, I see everything. I hear the drive
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whirr when checking directories, I hear the printer printing the caller log, I
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see a status line at the bottom of the screen that tells my name, address,
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phone number, and a bevy of other information at the touch of a button. That
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really takes the fun out of it. In staying on top of my system, like I stated I
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did a few paragraphs back, I know everything on my system. Nothing gets past
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me. There are no surprises. On the other hand, my mind is one that builds up
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complicated worlds, so people who log on will not be bored, or figure out all
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the little nuances for a long, long time.
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My ferret is watching a fly. Poor thing, she can't reach it.
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Here's what I want to do. I'm putting an ad for this board on the bottom of
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this file, and then I'll have an entry by me. It'll have the basic format for
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an entry. What I want YOU to do is, to use a word processor, and put your entry
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on the bottom. Then upload it everywhere. OK? It's really not much to ask, I
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think it'll be fun, and I'll get some advertising for my little board.
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Thank you.
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[=======================\/==========\/==========\/===========================]
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Call The Works: 914's Text-file BBS. Home of Terror Ferret and BilDo
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Located in beautiful Chappaqua, NY. 300/1200 Baud, N,8,1
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10 Megabytes 900+ Textfiles. (914)/238-8195
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\ (_><_) _____ \ \ \
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\_____][___ \ \ \ \ \ _/
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,\ \ \___ ____ \ _ \ _____ ___\<_ ___
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_______ \ \ \ \\___) \ \\ \ \ \ \/ \ \_ <____
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/ \____> \ \ \\____ \__>\__> \____> \ \ \ ____>
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[=======================\/==========\/==========\/===========================]
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Entry #1
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Jason M. Scott, Chappaqua, NY IBM PC owner
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Call my board, and distribute this list.
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