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  • Re: Modded Bbs's

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Monday, March 23, 2026 08:46:21
    i eventually got glasses a few years ago and i wear them to give my eyes a >rest. i do wish i got on contact lenses sooner because they would have stopped
    my eyes from getting so bad. i heard they stop the changing of the eye's shape
    That leads to failing eyesight..

    I started wearing them in high school. I got to where contacts were able
    to correct one eye to 20/20 (expected) and the other to 20/15 or better
    (better than expected). The Dr said that was supposedly due to the eye
    shape thing.

    Once I got into my 40s and started having the age-related close-distance
    vision issues, that didn't seem to be as much of an advantage any more.


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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to Mike Powell on Friday, March 27, 2026 10:28:00
    MIKE POWELL wrote to ROBERT WOLFE <=-

    I can remember the days when some BBS software on what are now "retro" systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. I am not sure what it would look like if it got quoted a bunch of times in a reply thread, but the
    original and "first quoting" didn't break anything here.

    There is a new bbs running on an old apple ii, and old retro system is so
    user unfriendly. The name is piss shit and come bbs.

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MATTHEW MUNSON on Saturday, March 28, 2026 11:23:47
    I can remember the days when some BBS software on what are now "retro" systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. I am not sure what it would look like if it got quoted a bunch of times in a reply thread, but the original and "first quoting" didn't break anything here.

    There is a new bbs running on an old apple ii, and old retro system is so user unfriendly.

    Yeah, back in the 1980s there used to be a popular board where I lived that
    was an apple ii board. I don't remember what software it ran, but it was
    very, very different than all of the GT Power, WWIV, PC Board, or Commodore boards that were around then.

    Mike

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