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Article: Systems librarian and automation review. (a review of bulletin board software)
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- Computers in Libraries
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
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It's the most challenging thing you will ever try to accomplish with a computer," replied the s so of a local bulletin board I called a few years ago. I had asked him what I had to do to join FidoNet, that amorphous group of online communicators I had heard about.
"Yeah, right," I thought. I've got a hundred terminals and about three dozen Pcs to take care of, and I've been into this since 1978. I can handle it, really. The Emergence of Quicksilver But if I remembered who he was today, I would dial up his bulletin board and post a public message of congratulations on Ids prophetic statement. What was supposed to be a project on the side, to do when I got around ...
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... ... regional board. Quad-Tech Systems claims to be the largest BBS in the Pittsburgh area. Like many other large boards, it runs PC Board software. Co-sysops Richard Dennis and John Martzall have done a good job of making this board easy to navigate. Quad ...
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