Silent700

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   by Silent700 5y ago

   Thanks. 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 interacti
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   by Silent700 5y ago

   Yeah, it looks like Firefox is the only browser where they don't work.
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   by Silent700 5y ago

   We've had all of the last five at the show before. Older than that is "Antique."
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   by Silent700 5y ago

   Here's a gallery (and video) of previous shows that may give some more insight into what goes on at a VCF: http://vcfmw.org/past.html
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   by Silent700 5y ago

   Absolutely heavy on the hardware. Lots of micros, obviously, but there are always a few minis (PDP-8/PDP-11/HP 1000/etc), Unix workstations and odd stuff. This year there is even an IBM Midrange display (System/34, &#x2F
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   by Silent700 5y ago

   That was a decent show. Great place to find AT cases, SIMMs and imported knock-off Sound Blasters in identical blue/orange boxes.
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   by Silent700 5y ago

   Good Lord, that website rules. ;)
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   by Silent700 12y ago

   You're the 8BBS first user to speak up. Any stories?
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   by Silent700 12y ago

   I attempted OCR with Acrobat, which you can inspect by downloading the PDF. Then archive.org does their own OCR (I believe with ABBY?) which is what you'll see if you look at their .txt version. I haven't had a chance to compare