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[Solved] Seeking a name, from the mists of the past (lemmy.one)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the Silicon Valley / San Jose / Bay area, there was a BBS that had a hierarchical message board, Replies were ordered under posts or other replies. In the 80's this was an unusual feature of a bulletin system. The BBS was named for a character from some story. It was a hard to pronounce word/name starting with the letter 'P', and we mostly referred to the BBS as 'Pretzel' as that was a close approximation to the original word. Anyone know which BBS I am talking about?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh god, I remember running my BBS. Thousands of lines of batch code I wrote, several doors I wrote in Turbo Pascal, just spent so much damned time on that crap. Ended up running four lines, connected to FIDONet and then UseNet before I finally got too busy with my IT outsourcing business to spend any more time on it and retired it.