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This is Citadel in the year 2002.
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Just going to write a little explanation about these three log files.
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Back in 1996 I didn't know much about computers, first family computer
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was a 386sx in 1990. in 1996 I was just figuring out what a modem was,
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checking out bbs's downloading files with my Zoom internal 28.8.
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Found an 800 bbs listing file and starting dialing them up.
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and found this TOP BBS some Zenith/Government BBS.
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Just let me say that I always feel really bad when I look at these files
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and remember back then 'cause see I didn't get all of the posts off this
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BBS, I only got 200 out of the totally 400. only half :/
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I said earlier that I didn't know much then, didn't know about unix/linux
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systems. I remember I loaded up .. lets see.. Com..
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damn I forget the name of the program. Com something I could find out later.
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I dialed into the BBS and then turned on logging to a file, and then set
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the bbs to just dump all the posts. well then I must have had a big file,
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'cause I would load up that log file with edit.com (yea had dos 5.0 only
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version that came With Qbasic I beleave). OUT OF FAR MEMORY... or something
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like that. I knew I could 'type file.log' but that wasn't cool.
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so I knew I better save it into parts. I'm not sure if I ever had the entire
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400 posts and then deleted the.. that would have been sucky.
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Anyway,.. so I logged back on, started at post 1 and just kept pressing enter
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for awhile. then stopped that log file. Then started a new one.
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ok makes sense. Thats how I got these files we have now.
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The crazy part about this is I'm at home... Mom calls me to dinner.
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Damn time to eat.. ok I have to do this later.
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I call it up the next day. or mabye it was even later that night!
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but they fucking disconnected it right then! I must have been the very last
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person to access the thing remotely. I'm like uhhh shit!
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I remember it didn't give a carrier anymore.. forget exactly but I do remember
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saying 'damn...' and then reading what the hell I just got.
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it gets most interesting at the end of log 3. just wish I had all of it.
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if anyone out there was one of these people that used this BBS back in 1996
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or knows someone that might have been on it. or anything that could help.
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Would be really cool to complete these logs.
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email me at
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citadel@nerp.net
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I don't know if I'll get a chance to append anymore files to this...
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(or will have the time)
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later all.
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