[torontocbm] Re: BBS Stars 2
- From: Chris Cunnington <cunnington@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:18:35 -0500
Thanks Charles and Golan for shedding some light on people I saw in the BBS
documentary. The Zimmers page was cool. I find the business of the protocols
that existed before the TCP/IP tidal wave a very cool topic. Punter is in
the docu, and Butterfield had mentioned him at World of Commodore as a guy
who'd called up and railed at him for suggesting that people send
Butterfield a quarter for his shareware programs. Subsequently Punter went
on to write a commercial word processor program. If Punter's on this list
perhaps he could give his side of that conversation. Hi Punter!
The guys Justin Cohen and others I guess will remain a bit of a mystery. The
BUG and Canada Remote Systems are good to hear about, because I've never
heard of them. CRS has a Wiki page that I'll read presently.
Watching the docu again it seems that there are three kinds people who were
involved in the scene: people who had jobs in technology or were serious
(Ham radio?) technology hobbyists and tripped over BBSes; high school
students who gave it up upon going to college; and, people on the social
fringe. Some of the last group are cooler than average. Some are wackos.
Real MF'ing wackos. If you think I'm going to idolize the members of the
Cult of the Dead Cow any time soon, think again.
Thanks for your responses!
Chris
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