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.
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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.