Thread: Why The Cellar?
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Old 10-07-2001, 09:00 PM   #14
MaggieL
in the Hour of Scampering
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
Posts: 4,060
Quote:
Originally posted by jaguar
I aint gonna work....on maggies farm no more.....
Well, as knee-jerk musical refernces based on my name go, that's marginally better than that dreary Rod Stuart tune people keep dredging up. :-)

But you'll have to save it for another thread, becuae "back in the day", I was known as "janicel" here. Or "there", with this here being where "there" ended up.

Never thought I'd see people embedding images in Cellar postings, though. And "Maggie's Farm" makes me grateful some of the other MIME types aren't supported. :-)

Appropos such nostalgia:
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CBBS VER 3.0
07/22/79 11:57:15
#7 TERMINAL NEED NULLS? TYPE CONTROL-N WHILE THIS TYPES:

*** WELCOME TO WARD AND RANDY'S ***
*** COMPUTERIZED BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM***
(IN OPERATION SICE 2/16/78)

CONTROL CHARACHTERS ACCEPTED BY THIS SYSTEM:

DEL/BS/_ BACKSPACE AND ECHO DELETED CHARS
CTL-C CANCEL CURRENT PRINTING
CTL-K FUNCTION ABORT
CTL-M START SENDING 5 NULLS
CTL-R RETYPES CURRENT INPUT LINE
CTL-S SUSPENDS OUTPUT UNTIL NEXT CHAR RECEIVED
CTL-U CANCELS CURRENT INPUT LINE

IF YOU GET STUCK, TRY: CTL-K THEN C/R UNTIL YOU
BAIL OUT BACK TO THE MAIN MENU

WHENEVER WE REFER TO "C/R", WE MEAN YOUR "RETURN" KEY!!

----> BULLETINS: 44 LINES, LAST ENTRY 7/14, NEWEST ENTRIES FIRST...
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