I recall from calling AST, PC Magazine's BBS, 3com and some others in

Do you recall what was offered in PC Magazine's BBS?

Were there full articles to read? special articles that didn't make it in print? Subscription information to get the magazine? Were there messages, files?

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you could download a few things. i called every one i could find.
it's not overlooked. there's nothing to look at.

But you *still* called every one you could find!
So there *was* something unique these "boring" BBS had worth exploring ALL! :P

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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Greek Times to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 22 2026 08:48 pm

I recall from calling AST, PC Magazine's BBS, 3com and
some others in

Do you recall what was offered in PC Magazine's BBS?

Were there full articles to read? special articles that didn't
make it in print? Subscription information to get the magazine?
Were there messages, files?

are you running a bbs for the sole purpose of asking us questions for a newspaper article?


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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Greek Times to MRO on Sun Feb 22 2026 08:53 pm

you could download a few things. i called every one i could find. it's not overlooked. there's nothing to look at.

But you *still* called every one you could find! So there *was*
something unique these "boring" BBS had worth exploring ALL! :P

you might be retarded.
there was nothing to do back then. even cable tv sucked.
after i called each bbs i never called back.

it wasn't exploring.


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after i called each bbs i never called back.

Since you dialed many of these, do you recall if these BBSes required to create a user account, or you were accessing them as guest?

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Greek Times wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Do you recall what was offered in PC Magazine's BBS?

Were there full articles to read? special articles that didn't make it
in print? Subscription information to get the magazine? Were there messages, files?

I seem to recall message boards separate from the magazine and a lot of
older third party apps and shareware. Mind you, this was 1987 or so.



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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: Greek Times to MRO on Mon Feb 23 2026 08:34 am

after i called each bbs i never called back.

Since you dialed many of these, do you recall if these BBSes required
to create a user account, or you were accessing them as guest?

I'm not participating in your article.
Talk to poindexter and he will give you some made up imagined shit to use.


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Re: Re: Looking for screensho
By: MRO to Greek Times on Sun Feb 22 2026 11:17 pm

Were there full articles to read? special articles that didn't make
it in print? Subscription information to get the magazine? Were
there messages, files?

are you running a bbs for the sole purpose of asking us questions
for a newspaper article?

I visited your bbs. you ignored my question but your bbs answered my question.


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are you running a bbs for the sole purpose of asking us questions
for a newspaper article?

I visited your bbs. you ignored my question but your bbs answered my question.

Just to clarify, I'm not writing an article. My question was historical in nature.

The hobby and art boards are well documented, but the vendor and corporate support boards seem to have faded without much visual preservation. I'm interested in understanding what the practical standard actually looked like in that space during the early 90s.

I operate a board myself, and I'd like to align certain presentation choices with how professional support systems were typically done at the time. That's really the extent of my interest.

If anyone has screenshots, printouts, or firsthand recollections of those vendor boards, I'd still appreciate the input.

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