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           \    /    /   /    .\     \        \    /   \     \
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                        BBS Ads Collection v1.0
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This is the most complete collection of BBS adverts including PC
and Amiga scene  boards, legal as well as illegal ones. All the ads were found 
in release packages and are thereby authentical. 

As BBS's were the main way of communication through the 90s for ALL computer
scenes, no matter if demo, hpav or wares, there is an urge to document the way
BBS's competed for callers. That is hopefully done by this collection.

To protect the sysops of back then, as well as the owners of the same 
phonenumbers nowadays, all numbers are x'ed out, no matter if the particular 
BBS was legal or illegal. If a nummer was forgotten to get x'ed out, mind that 
it MAKES NO SENSE to call this number, all the bbs's are either offline or
moved to telnet.

The ads are sorted by charset and NOT by operating system, so it might be
that you find PC BBS's in the amiga_charset folder and vice versa. The
separation of the ads were done only for your comfort, so you need to change 
the viewing mode only once. The recommended viewer for this collection is
ACiDView, which you can find at 
http://www.thuglife.org/cgi/load/load.cgi?/_thug/apps/avw-600.zip .
To view the Amiga charset ads, it is recommended to turn on the "Amiga"
mode under the "View" menu. To view the PC charset ads, you can use
the default mode.

The purpose of this collection is to present a historical epoch and NOT
to show something artistic in the first place. There are some
beautiful ads, some are butt-ugly, still they're ALL included.

Feel free to submit missing bbs ads or just give feedback to
dipswitch@kaoz.org or if you see me on IRC.

- Dipswitch/DCS^BM

PS: Most ads contain PC CR/LF chars, because they were post-edited on 
a PC, even the Amiga ones. So there might be some problems to view
this collection on Amiga machines, but if can be fixed by stripping
the CR/LF chars in Cygnus Editor.