2 ms·
That 8BBS dump is incredible. The fact that someone realized what they had and took the time to scan it. When I was reading it before I read your 2nd link I won
by kingcharles 5y ago
That 8BBS dump is incredible. The fact that someone realized what they had and took the time to scan it. When I was reading it before I read your 2nd link I wondered what the cause of all the corruption was - perhaps poor quality coupler connection - but it was actually OCR failure from scanning printouts. If someone (not I) had the time to go through and fix them, that would be awesome.
- Silent700 5y agoThanks. I thought so, too ;) The printouts were old 9-pin dot matrix, and somewhat faded in parts. The OCR I had access to does very poorly with that sort of type. There is an effort underway to transcribe all of the posts into an interactive web format. Someday!
- kingcharles 5y agoThank you! The hardest part is done - the finding and the scanning. It's great that Susy's first post is hidden in there. I searched for "blond" and there it was.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]