Re:Searching for Susy Thunder
by kingcharles on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:41PM
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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.
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 interactive web format. Someday!
Re:Searching for Susy Thunder
by kingcharles on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:23PM
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Thank 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.
https://archive.org/stream/8BBSArchiveP1V1/8BBS_Archive_P1V1...
Seems it was digitized from dot-matrix printout by a packrat/historian who got the logs alongside some old gear they were buying.
http://silent700.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-this-something.html
Found this while poking around. Seems someone representing their self as one of the DEC employees that ran 8BBS dropped a short message about it on everything2 back in 2006.
https://everything2.com/title/8BBS
https://everything2.com/user/FTCnet
And here's a 1987 interview with the Tuc that acted as the contact at the beginning of the article.
http://protovision.textfiles.com/phreak/tuc-intr.phk