BBS documentary

[David Barnes]

So where can one order this from?


David Barnes

davebarnes AT adelphia DOT com
OpenVMS  , Tru64 , Solaris , Linux , OS X , SGI Irix


On May 27, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
>
>> A bunch of people already saw it at VCF 7.  I couldn't be there  
>> last year.
>> Anyone who saw it care to offer some thoughts?
>>
>
> What was presented was a rough cut of one episode only; there are 8  
> in the DVD set.  I was the post-production quality tech, so I've  
> seen the entire thing already in nearly-finished form.  It's over 5  
> hours of material divided up semi logically into episodes (birth of  
> the BBS, death of the BBS, social interaction between user-user,  
> sysop-sysop, sysop-user, the "art" scene (drawing pictures using  
> only ASCII), etc.).
>
> I can't give it a proper review, because what *I* want from a BBS  
> documentary has no niche and will never be produced (I want  
> technical details and lots of inside geek info).  What Jason  
> produced is for his target audience, which is 18-35 people of today  
> who barely remember (or never knew about) BBSes, for which he  
> delivers an outstanding product.  I'm not saying it lacks meat --  
> there is definitely a lot of meat -- but it is slanted toward  
> people under 50, so it rehashes a lot of info that we already  
> know.  The most interesting segments are the ones involving social  
> interaction (how BBSes enabled interaction between people who would  
> normally never connect, etc.).
>
> It is easily worth the $50 price and I highly recommend everyone  
> here purchase a copy.  In addition to 5 hours of edited material  
> (for which there was 240 source hours of interviews), the entire  
> set has a Creative Commons license, so that alone is worth supporting.
> -- 
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