"Bill in Co" wrote in
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One might say, in a sense, that BBS was a forerunner to Usenet.
You don't know what you were missing. :-) I guess it seems primitive
by today's standards.


I think I heard of a BBS from a guy who ran computer music gear. The Atari ST
had just got some program called Cubase, and I remember the amazing whiteness
and sharpness of the screen image, (no colours) and the guy (Steve Risley I
think his name was) mentioning a BBS in conjunction with electronic music. I
hadn't even got a phone at the time. But I was programming sounds on FM
synthesizers, and was trying to figure out who if anyone might be interested
in them, and what other things people were getting up to. Everything
techincal from that time seems primitive now. But I don't knock it. A
computer called DSKY that wouldn't hold a candle to a pocket calculator not
only got men to the moon, it got the Apollo 17 crew back again.