Gravesend
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Also listed as: Gravesend BBS

Thomas Tuerke writes "What a blast stumbling on this list! In the
days before the Internet, there were BBS's.... Prior to Cotati,
Gravesend ran out of Novato. 415-892-1301, if memory serves. That
must have been from '85-88. Good ol' Auntie software. Memories?
Huge. Let's see. Top three: The #1 bulletin on Gravesend:
Hoax-a-scope. Nightly, Auntie would pick 24 random innocuous
sentences from a database of hundreds, put two under each sign,
and post that day's horoscope. People called daily to get their
reading, and many claimed "it really works!".... She-Woman
Keyboard Hater's Club. A consortium of "abandoned spouses"
congregated on Gravesend, because of all of us Geeky males
spending more time in front of the pale wash of CGA monitors than
spending time with spouses and S/O's... Hell hath no fury, etc...
;) .... In response to the ARC/PKZip incident and the subsequent
proliferation of compression tools, Al Kalian (Palladin BBS) and I
concocted "NABOB" -- the ultimate compression tool. It could
compress *anything* better than *anything* else out there, often
down to one byte (ASCII character 1, the smiley character) Early
adopters downloaded it, tried it, and loved it: the endorsements
came rolling in. (Of course, it eventually was taken down when
several humor-impaired types complained that it couldn't
*decompress* their files!) Oh well... Those were the days....
Great job."

Phone   : 707-795-4939
Place   : Cotati, CA
Years   : 1988 - 1996
Sysop   : Thomas Tuerke, Thomas M. Tuerke
Software: Auntie

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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