Happy 25th Birthday to COMP.SYS.CBM!
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From: Andrew Wiskow on 22 Apr 2008 04:31 On 23 April 1983, the following post was made by Brad Templeton, announcing the birth of the net.micro.cbm newsgroup: -------------------------------------- Message-ID: <bnews.watmath.4964> Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton X-Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: watmath!bstempleton Date: Sun Apr 24 01:39:17 1983 Subject: net.micro.cbm for Commodore Computers is born Posted: Sat Apr 23 18:40:19 1983 Received: Sun Apr 24 01:39:17 1983 This group is for discussion of the computers made by Commodore Business Machines, whose numbers are growing in great numbers these days. This includes the PET, the CBM series, the VIC-20, the Commodore-64 and the new B and P series computers. -------------------------------------- On 7 November 1986, it was announced that net.micro.cbm was having its name changed to comp.sys.cbm. So, technically, this makes tomorrow the 25th birthday of comp.sys.cbm! So what is everyone doing to celebrate? ;) -Andrew
From: David Murray on 22 Apr 2008 16:25 > changed to comp.sys.cbm. So, technically, this makes tomorrow the 25th > birthday of comp.sys.cbm! So what is everyone doing to celebrate? ;) I guess we could all eat a can of spam for symbolic reasons. and Next year we'll probably be able to observe the death of comp.sys.cbm, at the rate it has been declining lately.
From: rbernardo on 22 Apr 2008 17:23 On Apr 22, 1:25 pm, David Murray wrote: > I guess we could all eat a can of spam... Mmm, makes me want to go to my nearest Hawaiian barbeque restaurant and have some Spam dishes, like some nice musubi. Thinking of the islands and my Commodore friends there, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug The Other Group of Amigoids http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
From: Klompmeester on 22 Apr 2008 19:21 "David Murray" <adric22(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:31be7e68-091b-41d8-9543-6fecc393c672(a)f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... > >> changed to comp.sys.cbm. So, technically, this makes tomorrow the 25th >> birthday of comp.sys.cbm! So what is everyone doing to celebrate? ;) > > I guess we could all eat a can of spam for symbolic reasons. I notice the spam in this group isn't as bad as other groups where cheap Chinese sneaker and watches posts are outnumbering genuine posts. and Next > year we'll probably be able to observe the death of comp.sys.cbm, at > the rate it has been declining lately. Usenet as a whole is in decline, most people seem to be migrating to online forums.
From: Ian McCall on 22 Apr 2008 19:27
On 2008-04-22 21:25:08 +0100, David Murray <adric22(a)yahoo.com> said: > >> changed to comp.sys.cbm. So, technically, this makes tomorrow the 25th >> birthday of comp.sys.cbm! So what is everyone doing to celebrate? ;) > > I guess we could all eat a can of spam for symbolic reasons. and Next > year we'll probably be able to observe the death of comp.sys.cbm, at > the rate it has been declining lately. I see no spam. news.individual.net plus a decent set of regexes - no spam present. Despite being an on/off poster of only about two years' standing, I shall celebrate with a quick bout of Impossible Mission on the Wii. That is, if I can ever regain my erstwhile Street Fighter II skills. Please god let Boulderdash Construction Kit be the next Wii virtual console release. Cheers, Ian |