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From: Dave Garland
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:43

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On 3/7/2018 10:25 AM, David Jones wrote:
> I use to love the old Byte magazines.  Like others have said, I'd read it from cover to cover and couldn't wait the new issue.  It's a shame when it started the death spiral.  I even still have all my copies from when I first started subscribing.  Anyone remember their failed attempt to create their own version of compuserve/aol?
> 
I didn't have any delusions that the 2-line BBS I operated would 
compete with CIS, but it did carry discussion groups like this, both 
those native to Fidonet (a store-and-forward BBS network via telephone 
lines) and a few newsgroups that I gated in via UUCP.

Then, of course, the WWW appeared, and nobody wanted BBS anymore.

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From: Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com>
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Subject: Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
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