+Nezgar Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down Do you think there's a chance all the messages and threads from the 80's actually still there? I have a feeling the oldest stuff would have already been purged.. But a lot of valuable computer history from the early days of home/personal computing may be on the verge of being gone forever... My time on CompuServe lasted exactly one month... It was a wonderful time when I tried the CB Simulator and downloaded the amazing BobTerm... THen my dad got the (at least??) $100 bill, and that was the end of that! haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 holy crap! thought that was long gone and never checked or looked back! By all means see if you can't get them and the archived ones too! Anyone still have an account or know someone with an account? Maybe even contact their admin/sysadmin/sysop/moderators to see if it could be done... heck someone might be able to get to donate the equipment or such for archival purposes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 did this stuff ever get archived saved recovered? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 I think that article was referring the the more recent 'web based' forums. I think the original forums and file areas on the old DEC PDP servers were probably long gone before this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=CompuServe_Forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 "... effective December 15, 2017. For more than two decades..." Two decades before 2017 (1997?) supports my thought that it's not the original forums, since those were around another 15-20 years before that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 The original forums back in the 80's were a wealth of information. I probably still have some CIS interviews on floppy somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcgldr Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I haven't used Compuserve in decades, but I still have some old binder / manual for it. I even have a 56K baud modem in storage somewhere, but don't know if it still works. I'd have to use my older system, which still has a serial port and a floppy drive, as my newer system doesn't have either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=CompuServe_Forums the archiving started too late and did not get completed, it didn't get very far it would seem... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 (edited) I thought Compuserve ended around the time of the modern Internet. Otherwise I might have been interested...probably not though, my guess is any 8-bit coverage and support ended back in the early 90's, if not before. Compuserve, Genie, GCP fpr Atari...I used to drool over the ads and wish for a modem. I could have eventually gotten the modem, even if it was the 1030 I just got a few years ago, but the roadblock was the big phone bill, as Nezgar said, my parents would have killed me, with the outrageous hourly rates (considering how slow it all worked) and a phone bill on top of it too, even BBS's were out of the question...especially at 300 baud. I'll be ready by the end of the year, in my new home, with a real land-line, to finally connect my 1030 and check out a few of the BBS's others in the community run. Hopefully, finally, at 50 years of age, I'll connect to my first ever BBS with a dial-up modem. Edited July 26, 2018 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 They got 37x 5gb compressed archives of it. https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/f2cnvBut yes it fell over and didnt get restarted in time to finish. The Atari forums were ATARINET, ATARI8 and ATARIVEN. There were ST forums too. I dont know if AT is early enough alphabetically to have been included. There is an archive team bot search on efnet but I havent had time to try and query it yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 The Computer History Museum published a blog post todat about a trove of CompuServe documents, brochures, software, and hardware of material they narrowly rescued. Looking forward to learn more about what they acquired! https://computerhistory.org/blog/mission-impossible-chm-edition/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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