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Need more ANSI from The Floating Pancreas, which was a rather unique BBS that served up a lot of textfiles back in the day. How could it be omitted?
by kw71 12y ago
Need more ANSI from The Floating Pancreas, which was a rather unique BBS that served up a lot of textfiles back in the day. How could it be omitted?
- voltagex_ 12y agoIf no one archived it, it's gone. If no one submitted it to an archive, it's hard to find. If someone saved it to a floppy disk, it's probably gone [1] [1]: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191
- empressplay 12y agoThat article's a bit melodramatic -- I have Apple II floppies from the mid 1980s that still read fine. They just need to have been stored properly.
- fizzacyst 12y agoWow! FpG mentioned on Hacker News. Whoda thunk? Unique is one way to describe it. I have an archive of some (sadly, not all) of our stuff, but after looking through it just now there's a lot that isn't exactly, um, appropriate? I guess the whole point was to be shocking but, if I'm honest, the tables have turned. A lot of it offends and embarrasses /me/ now. Older, wiser, less acid... Were you a regular?
- kw71 12y agoLol! Less acid. I called frequently. I remember having a chat session with the sysop and was amazed that he could type rapidly in that funky mixed-case all the time. Maybe he had a foot pedal for a shift key?