Found buried in a desk drawer while moving..
reddit / bbs

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rlauzon · 2022-06-18 10:09

I still have my DSZ registration card.

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dmine45 · 2022-06-18 10:09

WWIV still lives on but under new ownership and is now open source.

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530_Oldschoolgeek · 2022-06-18 10:39

Crazy, I still have my TW2002 and LORD reg codes all printed, and I am
sure I have my old WWIV paperwork packed away somewhere.   Even still
have the BBS backed up on tape drives somewhere.

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wndrbr3d · 2022-06-18 13:18

Open source is the only way to ensure this stuff survives and isn’t
lost. Hats off to the maintainer!

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wndrbr3d · 2022-06-18 13:19

Do you? The general rule is tape backups only last about 30 years…. 😬

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FrethKindheart · 2022-06-18 17:27

I too have my BBS backed up on tape drive, but I copied it off ages
ago.  It's backed up in multiple places now.  While I still have the
tapes and a tape drive, I doubt I'll ever use them again.  At some
point I'll be tossing them in the trash, after using a strong magnet
on them.

The tapes are 28 years old now.

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BSVWarrior · 2022-06-18 19:53

Nice! Unfortunately I am the opposite of a pack-rat so I have none of
the software I wrote myself in 1985 including the BBS program that I
wrote, none of the C-Net BBS that I ran, none of the significant WWIV
mods I wrote or the WWIV door games I wrote, etc. I threw it all away.
:(

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trekkingscouter · 2022-06-18 20:05

Awesome!!!  I have loads of catalogs on disk and those early MS-DOS
copies of AOL, Prodigy, GEnie, Compuserve, and the like floating
around in my old computer boxes plus tons of paper catalogs and
advertisements.  I as more of a BBS user than a sysop back then
unfortunately.  But very neat find!!!

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dperry324 · 2022-06-18 23:39

I have one of those mailers.

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UnfunnyTroll · 2022-06-19 03:24

Anyone else call it World War 4 or was it just me?