The Glue Ball
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"The Glue Ball was a message base/pirate board running modified
Commodore 64 CBBS code, 3 1541 drives and the 300/450 Commodore
modem. The multiple 1541 drives were obtained by fraud at a local
Zayre store when we discovered that buying a drive then returning
the box with a brick in it and claiming that the drive didn't
work. This is not cool, but it is history. The Glue Ball was
possibly best known for the writing contained upon it, as the
welcome screens were constantly changing and tended to be fairly
imaginative. The name Glue Ball is a reference to an aspect of
particle physics that I'm too stupid to explain. Vid Kidz was
taken from the name of the design team of the coin-op video game
Robotron. The name Barney Badass was selected as it was the name
Vid called Barney the day they met in the cafeteria of Mather High
School in 1983. That meeting would also develop into an early
Chicago punk rock / surf band called The Defoliants, whose career
lasted 5 years. An early song by that band was an instrumental
called "Cold Start 64738", which should entertain any C64 head.
Modifications to the code were done often under a programmer's
tool for the 64 called Sysres, a kind of wrapper environment for
C64 Basic code. It was admired because of its ability to display
all variables in the code using the "dump" command, which also
caused much snickering." - Barney Badass

Phone   : 312-465-HACK
Years   : 1983 - 1986
Sysop   : Vid Kidz, Barney Badass, Mr. //c
Software: CBBS

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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