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*Brief History of the
Calgary BBS Scene*
By Nscafe Unleaded
Kawphy.News.BBS.Calgary
Monday, October
21, 1996, Vol 1. No. 6
Well, I've
been in this crazy world of geeking since late 1991. In my time
I've seen the Calgary
BBS scene change alot. <Add Grampa Simpson voice> Why
I remembah when 2400
was the standard. Now for the sake of new users, I felt
like chronicling the
BBS scene. So, with the aid of pretty diagrams, and
other users here's
our history<circa 1991>.
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³ Octapode ³ Started by Mr. Armstrong, then given to Geoff ³
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by Unknown Persons, now called ??? ??? ³
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Octapode has been called many things ³
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BBS, Annoying, Lamer Hangout>, but peo ³
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of varrying ages. Just recently a age res ³
³ ³ iction
has been applied to Octapode. No users ³
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the age of 16. Geoff also has recently ³
³ ³ started
ignoring user requests, and letting O ³
³ ³ ctapode
go downhill. Octapode has been up sin ³
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early 1991. The current phone number is 28 ³
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³ Nucleus ³ Starting as a 8line BBS running under MBBS,
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Nucleus has grown in the past 5years to a 50+ ³
³ ³ line
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has it that the SysOp's pulled a fas ³
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on they're insurance company. By steali ³
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their own computers, collecting the money ³
³ ³ and
upgrading their system. Nucleus now offer ³
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service to paying customers. Nucle ³
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has also been called many things<Corp BBS, ³
³ ³ Too
damned expensive>. To my knowledge, Nucle ³
³ ³ us
has never been hacked.
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³ Chromhenge ³ Roughly 3years ago, Jay Random started up C ³
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³ nd is now running under OS/2, and Maximus. ³
³ Chromhenge has always been running 8lines a ³
³ nd has a reputation for being a Wiccian/Pag ³
³ an BBS. This makes new users a little afria ³
³ d to call. Also they're meets have a reputa ³
³ tion for being `Freakish'.
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**Note to Readers**
The Next issue will contiue this brief history of
multi-line BBS's.
*Lame-O-Meter*
By Nscafe Unleaded
Kawphy.News.BBS.Calgary
Tuesday, November
12, 1996 Vol 1. No. 6
This will rate BBS's
in Calgary as I see fit.
BBS Name
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Dischordia
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Chromhenge
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Lynx From Hell
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Meat Eating Orchids
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Creo Imagonem
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Anti-Pode
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Hermits Cave BBS
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Atlantis
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*Music - General*
By Nscafe Unleaded
Kawphy.News.BBS.Calgary
Tuesday, November
12, 1996 Vol 1. No. 6
As we all know,
there is alot of music out there that just isn't good.
Some may call it rap,
others country, still others classical, or industrial.
Good music
should sound good to whoever listens to it. Not by what is
socially acceptable.
Remember that flash in the pan Vannilla Ice? His hit
tune Ice Ice baby?
It did sound good, but he wasn't the first to use those
notes, Queen did.
Since then Queen has come back to life(with a lil help
from that movie Waynes
World). Now what about that whole Run D.M.C. and
Aerosmith thing? Run
D.M.C. used the first few beats of Walk this way, and
Aerosmith did a video
with them. <shrug> Another strange turn of events.
What about music groups
using sounds from video games? Well, the Smashing
Pumpkins used an explosion
or two from Doom. What about all you Mod makers
out there? I know
alot of you actully go through the pain, and struggle of
making your own drums
beats. But there's alot of you who just Rip other
peoples Mods, and
re-organize the sounds to call your own. Not that that's a
bad thing<tisk
tisk>. Just an observation. Back to my original point. Good
music should sound
good, if it's been done before who cares. Just ajust it
enough to get away
from those pesky copyright laws. You should be ok. REALLY!
*Games - The fore-front
of better hardware*
By Nscafe Unleaded
Kawphy.News.BBS.Calgary
Tuesday, November
12, 1996 Vol 1. No. 6
Gameing, the
only form of computing that actully makes use of better
hardware. Look at
it this way, if it wasn't for Wing Commander 4, and it's
full surrsound-sound
music, would you really have bought those computer
speakers with the
subwoofer? Or did that spread-sheet actully need sound?
Just recently has
a Operating system been able to abuse the horse power of a
Pentium 100. It's
called Windows '95. As much as I hate using a Icon based
system, I'm glad someone
created a useful software program to make use of
Pentium. Besides OS/2,
and many 3D rendering programs, what else uses a
Pentium as a requirement?
Just games. I yet to see Spreadsheet program that
won't run on anything
less then Pentium.
Now I wonder,
what will the next game be like? Lets see, we have motion
sickness from Wolfinstein.
Surround Sound from Wing Commander. 360ø
landscaping from Super
Mario64<I know it's not a computer game, but the
principle is the same>.
As I see it,
unless Silicon Graphics Machines comes WAAAAAY down in price,
and also start a good
gaming software base, there isn't much more a 6x86 can
do. Well, there is
still that whole Virtual Reality thing that needs to be
exploited <smile>.
*Review - The Tragiclly
Hip Concert*
By Nscafe Unleaded
Saturday, November
16, 1996 Vol 1. No. 6
Wow! What a
concert. Ok, so the Rheostatics could be better. Not a big
deal. The first thing
that caught most people's eyes were the lights.
Another feat of modern
technology. Laser Lights, I REALLY should get some
for the basement<smile>.
Remember how the sheild looked in Highlander 2?
Well, at one point
that's what the Saddledome looked like. All nice and
green and purple.
It looked so pretty, you wanted to reach out and touch it.
K, I know this is
kinda short for a review... but all I can really say is
WoW. I enjoyed it...
mostly, execpt for that shrieking lady(if I could use
that term) behind
me. Overall I'd give it a 8 out of 10. Oh yea, and thanks
to Repunzel for taking
me. Happy Early Birthday eh!?
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this lovely, well packaged newsletter. On the following
systems : Dischorida
<World HQ> 283-3863
Chromhenge
225-2221
Lynx From Hell
N0T-4Y0U
Meat Eating Orchids
295-1564
Creo Imagonem
228-4901
Antipode
295-2326
Hermits Cave BBS
217-2035
Atlantis
243-8032
Alan's Major BBS
EDMONTON