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   On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 10:28:05 AM UTC-5, Paul Smith wrote:   
   > On Jul 26, 2020, lucid phreak wrote    
   > (in article<853237d1-b8e3-40d8...@googlegroups.com>):   
   > > I have been looking for quite some time now for the BBS Software,   
   BlueBoard.    
   > > Blue Board was written in 1985 by Martin Sikes and was popular in the   
   British    
   > > Vancouver area. It was marketed and sold by a company and supposedly sold    
   > > well - and was also pirated quite extensively - meaning this software   
   wasn't    
   > > some unknown thing that ran on a single BBS. It was popular.    
   > >    
   > > I have found one guy on a BC commodore BBS users group who has a physical    
   > > copy (he sent me pics of the binder and disk) but bit rot has taken the   
   disk    
   > > and he cannot even read it used Kryoflux. He is going to try and clean the    
   > > disk with alcohol but I'm not terribly confident it is going to work.    
   > >    
   > > That all being said I just thought I would post a note here on the off   
   chance    
   > > that someone might stumble across it who perhaps has a D64 or a working   
   disk    
   > > of the software.    
   > >    
   > > I also run http://www.blueboardbbs.com in support of my endeavor and will    
   > > have the software up for all to access once I find a copy.    
   > >    
   > > Martin died an untimely death not too long after the BBS software was   
   popular    
   > > and I think he would like to see that he was remembered and that he left    
   > > something behind that made people happy.. I hope to help!!!    
   > >    
   > > Thanks - lucidphreak   
   > I remember that software, I’d love to find a copy as well. Are you in    
   > Vancouver? Canada?   
   dallas TX...   
      
   I've found 2 people with the actual retail disk - but neither are readable.   
      
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