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It is awesome. As is his BBS documentary. Speaking of monetizing physical media, my wife went to some effort and expense to get me a personally signed copy of the BBS documentary for Fathers Day a long time ago, that was really cool.

As a disclaimer, I'm a financial backer of the upcoming 6502 documentary, looking forward to it.

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Run, don't walk, to see the BBS documentary. It is fantastic in every way. Especially the segments with the fidonet guy.

It's more a series of interviews than a true documentary but, that quibble aside, it's a great window into a world that really hasn't been well documented otherwise because it happened outside of the main thread of the Internet's evolution. I see one (self-published) book on Amazon about BBSs but there really isn't much out there.

Ah yes, let's get into THAT debate. That's not a quibble - it's barely an opinion.

Come on Jason. With a bigger budget you would probably have done things a bit differently. But as I said, it's a well done (and appreciated) look into a neglected area of computing history. And frankly the interviews are probably the most important thing. I'm not being critical.

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