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CUSTOMIZED: S-100 KIT COMPUTER: CBBS
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Author:
| Ward Christensen (With Randy Suess doing the Hardware side)
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Author Contacted?:
| Ward has written in! Huzzah!
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Interviewed!
| Ward Christensen Interviewed on February 16-17, 2002
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Additional Notes:
| Ward Christensen writes "The world's first BBS, CBBS/Chicago. Conceived to mimic a "cork board and push pin bulletin board" ona computer - thus "Computerized Bulletin Board System". Ran on CP/M-8080 with a 300 baud modem. About 20,000 lines of CP/M assembly language. It received almost a quarter million callers on its one phone line over the course of its life." |
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chinet.html
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(8.9K)
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The Birth of the BBS, by Ward and Randy, 1989
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cpmnet81.apr.txt
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(10K)
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Installing a BBS by Ben Bronson, from CP/M-Net (Overview of RBBS and CBBS for CP/M) (April, 1981)
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crcmyst.html
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(34K)
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The Great CRC Mystery, by Terry Ritter (1986)
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interview.txt
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(11K)
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Interview via Messages with Ward Christensen, heavily Edited, by Keith Petersen (1985)
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memories.txt
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(7.8K)
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Collection of Memories of writing and running the first BBS by Ward Christensen (Circa 1992)
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cbbs35_disk1.zip
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(101K)
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CBBS Version 3.5 Disk 1 (1981)
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cbbs35_disk1.zip.txt
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(6.9K)
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Listing of Documentation Associated with CBBS 3.5 (1981)
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cbbs35_disk2.zip
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(81K)
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CBBS Version 3.5 Disk 2 (1981)
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cookbook.txt
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(21K)
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CBBS Cookbook: A Cookbook for the Installation of a CBBS System 3.5 (November 28, 1981)
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thoughts.txt
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(5.1K)
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Thoughts on CBBS v3.5 by Ward Christensen (March 3, 1980, Revised November 28, 1981)
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cbbsoper.txt
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(12K)
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CBBS Operator's Manual, by Ward Christensen (November 28, 1981)
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overview.txt
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(16K)
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An overview of CBBS 3.5 by Ward Christensen (November 28, 1981)
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origin.txt
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(1.4K)
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System History of CBBS by Ward and Randy (September 14, 1978)
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cbbslink.txt
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(4.7K)
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Documentation on Assembling CBBS with LINKASM.COM, by Ward Christensen (July 12, 1981)
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1981cbbslist.txt
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(4.4K)
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List of CBBS Systems in 1981 (Plus Others) (1981)
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expert.txt
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(544)
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Description of Expert Mode in CBBS
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cbbs3.txt
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(9.7K)
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Collection of Information from Scouring Source of CBBS (November 28, 1981)
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cbbs33.txt
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(3.9K)
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Collection of Changes to CBBS 3.3 from CBBS 3.2 (June 22, 1980)
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cbbs34.txt
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(8.3K)
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Changes from CBBS 3.3 to CBBS 3.4, Ideas for the Future (June 18, 1980)
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hist033.txt
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(6.3K)
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Collection of Updates and Comments to CBBS v3.3 (December 4, 1981)
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history.txt
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(10K)
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Comments and Prologues to CBBS up to Version 3.2 (1979)
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features35.txt
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(2.4K)
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CBBS Features for Version 3.5 (1981)
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requirements.txt
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(963)
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Requirements to run CBBS 3.5 (June 8, 1980)
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cbbssale.txt
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(3.4K)
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CBBS Software for Sale: Contract and Pricing, by Randy Suess (September 19, 1981)
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parttime.txt
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(3.4K)
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List of Part-Time CBBS Systems (September 27, 1981)
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3435features.txt
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(4.4K)
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CBBS Version 3.4 and 3.5 Feature List, by Ward Christensen (October 23, 1980)
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