reconstructed version - edited copy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DEAD CBBS SCROLLS: EXACT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THERMAL ROLLS FROM THE FIRST MONTHS OF WARD CHRISTENSEN AND RANDY SUESS' CBBS, FOUNDED FEBRUARY 16, 1978 Transcribed by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM, 2002. Reconstruction: Tim Fraser , 18 February 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROLL TIME SPAN: May 29th, 1978 - June 1st, 1978 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ MIKE HERMAN visits but leaves no messages. ] [ GEORGE BRICKNER visits but leaves no messages. ] FEEDBACK FROM ED STOKES OF SACRAMENTO: THANKS FOR THE INTRODUCTION TO YOUR FINE COMMUNITY SERVICE. FROM: BOB SWARTZ DATE: 05/29/78 TO: ALL SUBJ: WANTED H8 COMPUTER I AM INTERESTED IN BUYING OR BORROWING AN H8 COMPUTER IF YOU HAVE ONE PLEASE CALL ME. BOB SWARTZ DAYS 213-472-6659 NIGHTS 312-433-1351. [ Randy Suess Breaks into Chat ] - WHAT A JOCK - HOW ABOUT THAT WHATS THE PASSWORD?? - TURKEY USE CTRL U - OK BUT WHAT IS THE PASSWORD - I FORGOT - SURE - HA WELL BAKK TO WORK - WHERE IS MY MINI FLOPPY - WARD BOUGHT IT!!! - YOU TURKEY - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA [ Chat Session Ends ] [ BOB SWARTZ tries the PASS command 8 times. ] FEEDBACCK FROM BOB SWARTZ: YOU TURKEYS WHAT IS THE PASSWORD SO I CAN GET INTO CPM YOU TURKEY ALSO WHY DID YOU SELL THE MINIFLOPPY VOUS ETES UN DINDE!!!!!!!! WHY DID YOU SELL MY MINIFLOPPY I WANT MY PET BACK VOUS ETES UN DINDE!!!!!!! BYE [ WARD CHRISTENSEN logs on and breaks into Chat: ] - YOU THERE RANDY?? YOU THERE????? [ Chat Session Ends ] FEEDBACK FROM WARD CHRISTENSEN: I WILL CHECK WHY PAGE COUNT IS OFF. MAYBE YOU COULD HELP BY SEEING IF AMOUNT OFF RELATES TO HOW MANY SIGN-ONS OCCURRED. ALSO WILL CHECK OUT \XXX\ SOFTWARE. ALSO WILL HAVE TO SEND YOU THE LATEST SOURCE. ..ANOTHER THING - NEAT THAT WE WON'T HAVE TO APPEND THE LOG AND COMMENTS SO OFTEN, WHAT WITH CONTROL-X!!! FROM: HOFFMAN TO: BILL SMITH SUBJ: FORTH BILL, WHEN IS THE FIRST ISSUE OF YOUR IMPLEMENTATION THING/GOING TO BE OUT? WOULD BE PLEASED TO BE YOUR LOCAL VOICE HERE--TO COLLECT NAMES, PASS INFO, [ Message aborted ] FEEDBACK FROM BILL SMITH: WARD, HAVING BIG DIFFICULTY WITH MESSAGE ENTRY. MY TERMINAL DOES NOT SUPPORT DELETE OR RUB-OUT. THE ASCII STANDARD FOR BACKSPACE IS 'BS' (CODE 08). DELETE RUBOUT WAS ORIGINALLY TRICKED UP AS AN EDITING TOOL FOR PAPER TAPE (IT WAS EXPLAINED TO BILL THAT WAY!! ). IF IT IS NOT AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT THING, COULD YOU IMPLEMENT SOME CONTROL CHARACTER AS A BACK SPACE? PERHAPS YOU WOULD PICK CONTROL-H !! (SOME SYSTEMS USE BACK/ARROW FOR BS, I DO NOT HAVE THAT EITHER) [ MIKE YOUNG visits but leaves no messages. ] [ ERNIE KENT visits but leaves no messages. ] [ WALLY WHITE OF MILWAUKEE visits 3 times but leaves no messages. ] [ LARRY ROOT visits but leaves no messages. ] [ WALLY WHITE visits 2 times but leaves no messages. ] FEEDBACK FROM WEB PEARCE: WARD I AM PASSING ALONG MSG. 195 TO RICH SO I KILLED IT WE'VE BOTH GOT IDEAS ON SYSTEM AND WILL BE PASSING THEM ALONG TO YOU- KEEP IT UP [ WALLY WHITE visits but leaves no messages. ] FROM: JOHN BEAL DATE: 05/31/78 TO: IMSAI OWNERS SUBJ: USERS GROUP I AM INTERESTED IN STARTING A USERS GROUP. I HAVE NO REAL PRECONCIEVED NOTIONS ABOUT WHAT IT SHOULD DO EXCEPT TO BE A HELP TO IMSAI USERS OR PROSPECTIVE USERS LEAVE A MESSAGE IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS OR ARE INTERESTED. OR CALL. JOHN BEAL 690-5797 (WORK) OR 393-3556 (HOME) FROM: NELSON CAPES OF ST. PAUL, MN DATE: 05/31/78 TO: ALL SUBJ: APPLE 2 USERS GROUP WANT TO KNOW IF ANYONE IN MINN IS INTERESTED IN FORMING AN APPLE 2 USERS GROUP. PLEASE CALL NELSON CAPES AT 612-633-8130 DURING THE DAY. FEEDBACK FROM NELSON CAPES OF ST. PAUL, MN: FANTASTIC WORK...CONGRATS WARD AND RANDY [ ELMER BEACHLEY visits but leaves no messages. ] FROM: DAVID SOUSSAN DATE: 05/31/78 TO: WARD & RANDY SUBJ: THIS SYSTEM SORRY IF I HAVE SOUNDED LIKE I WAS 'TALKING DOWN' ANYBODY BUT HAVING WORKED ON A LOT OF LARGE SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS MINIS & MICROS, YOU SORT OF GET HOOKED ON WONE OF THE NEAT THINGS AVAILABLE (LIKE THE DEC-10 IN TUCSON). I LIKE THIS A LOT AND WISH THEY HAD MORE OF THESE (CAN'T WAIT FOR THE HARD DISK). THIS SYSTEM HAS SO MANY THINGS THAT REMIND ME OF THAT DEC-10 (CONTROLL R, S, U, DELETE) THAT I FORGET THIS IS AN 8080. SORRY IF I HAVE OFFENDED ANYBODY. LHANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW ABOUT THE SEARCH. I THOUGHT YOU HAD TO GIVE IT THE WHOLE STRING INSTEAD OF JUST THE SUBSTRING. ARE THERE ANY MORE OF THESE AROUND? LET ME KNOW. PLEASE. ER...BYE ! [ JAY DRESSER visits but leaves no messages. ] [ NELSON CAPES visits but leaves no messages. ] [ ALAN ROEHL of PORTLAND visits but leaves no messages. ] [ CHRIS B. of ST PAUL visits but leaves no messages. ] FEEDBACK FROM TOM DAVIDSON: THE MODEM SEEMS TO BE VERY SENSITIVE WITH CARRIER LOST [ GEORGE TIREBITER visits, tries commands like PASS, CPM, SYSTEM, BOOT, CRASH, but leaves no messages. ] [ A user from DAYTON, O. visits but leaves no messages. ] [ JIM SKOOG visits but leaves no messages. ] [ BILLG SAINDON visits but leaves no messages. ] [ MIKE HERMAN visits but leaves no messages. ] [ JOHN ENGBERG of HOFFMAN ESTATES visits but leaves no messages. ] [ JACK/WIERDA visits but leaves no messages. ] [ YOLTAN PAZZUZU visits but leaves no messages. ] FROM: STEVE WALK DATE: 05/31/78 TO: WARD OR ANYONE SUBJ: ON CPM WARD, WHAT IS THE MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR CPM. [DISK OPERATING SYSTEM]. DOES IT WORK WITH THE NORTSTAR OR ICOM'S FRUGEL FLOPPY? FEEDBACK FROM STEVE WALK: THERE IS NO PASSWORD. STEVE WALK [ BOB LIEBERMAN visits but leaves no messages. ] [ WARD CHRISTENSEN visits but leaves no messages. ] [ WALLY WHITE visits 2 times but leaves no messages. ] [ BILL MITCHELL visits but leaves no messages. ] [ JOHN BEAL visits but leaves no messages. ] [ LARRY ROOT visits but leaves no messages. ] [ MIKE SANDERSON visits 2 times but leaves no messages. ] [ DAVID SOUSSAN visits but leaves no messages. ] FEEDBACK FROM ROBERT ARRINGTON: WHAT PARITY ARE U XMITTING? OUR DECWRTR DOES NT RCV U FEEDBACK FROM DON WEISS of AUSTIN TEX: YOU SEEM TO HAVE VERY LOW MODEM LEVEL... YOU NEED AT LEAST 9 DB INTO THE FONE FROM: JOHN BEAL DATE: 6/01/78 TO: WARD SUBJ: CACHE I NOTICED THAT I WAS NOT ON THE IMSAI OWNERS LIST THAT LARRY GOT FROM YOU. YOU MAY WANT TO UPDATE THAT INFO WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE. TNX. KUR. FEEDBACK FROM CHUCK WOZNIAK of CAROL STREAM: JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH THE SYSTEM. I AM GETTING FUNNY ECHOS BACK ON MY TERMINAL. MY NUMBER IS (312) 690-1400 [ ROSEMARY SNOW visits but leaves no messages. ] [ MIKE HERMAN visits but leaves no messages. ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DEAD CBBS SCROLLS: EXACT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THERMAL ROLLS FROM THE FIRST MONTHS OF WARD CHRISTENSEN AND RANDY SUESS' CBBS, FOUNDED FEBRUARY 16, 1978 Transcribed by Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM, 2002. Reconstruction: Tim Fraser , 18 February 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROLL TIME SPAN: May 29th, 1978 - June 1st, 1978 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- reconstructed version - edited copy