• Night Owl

    From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to All on Saturday, January 22, 2022 09:42:40
    Anyone have Night Owl 26 ISO? I looked everywhere and no one has it, so I'm hope some sysop has the disc and can burn it.

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to T.J. Mcmillen on Saturday, January 22, 2022 14:13:00
    T.J. Mcmillen wrote to All <=-

    Anyone have Night Owl 26 ISO? I looked everywhere and no one
    has it, so I'm hope some sysop has the disc and can burn it.

    Last I knew, the Night Owl series ended at #23. Am I mistaken on that?



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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Dan Clough on Saturday, January 22, 2022 17:08:00
    Hello Dan,

    Saturday January 22 2022 14:13, you wrote to T.J. Mcmillen:

    Last I knew, the Night Owl series ended at #23. Am I mistaken on
    that?

    I think you may be right as I have most of the NOCD collection here and the last one I have is #23.

    The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a great place to look for shareware CDs.

    -- Sean

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Sean Dennis on Saturday, January 22, 2022 17:05:00
    Sean Dennis wrote to Dan Clough <=-

    Last I knew, the Night Owl series ended at #23. Am I mistaken on
    that?

    I think you may be right as I have most of the NOCD collection
    here and the last one I have is #23.

    The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a great place to look for
    shareware CDs.

    Yep! Highest one I see on there is 23...



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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to Dan Clough on Saturday, January 22, 2022 18:19:24
    Anyone have Night Owl 26 ISO? I looked everywhere and no one
    has it, so I'm hope some sysop has the disc and can burn it.

    Last I knew, the Night Owl series ended at #23. Am I mistaken on that?

    Yup. Honestly I think it goes to 28 .... I have 4 through 25, and 27 here. Missing 26.

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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to Sean Dennis on Saturday, January 22, 2022 18:20:01
    I think you may be right as I have most of the NOCD collection here and th last one I have is #23.

    The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a great place to look for shareware

    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's missing the last 5.

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to T.J. Mcmillen on Saturday, January 22, 2022 22:45:00
    T.J. Mcmillen wrote to Dan Clough <=-

    Anyone have Night Owl 26 ISO? I looked everywhere and no one
    has it, so I'm hope some sysop has the disc and can burn it.

    Last I knew, the Night Owl series ended at #23. Am I mistaken on that?

    Yup. Honestly I think it goes to 28 .... I have 4 through 25,
    and 27 here. Missing 26.

    Hmmmm, strange. Nothing above 23 is found in any searches I've done.



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  • From Sam Penwright@1:123/120 to T.J. Mcmillen on Sunday, January 23, 2022 07:27:24
    I think you may be right as I have most of the NOCD collection here
    last one I have is #23.

    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's missing the last 5.
    I may have the whole collection I will take a look as soon as I can
    find them, I'll let you Know and if I do will make them avaliable.
    Sam


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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to Sam Penwright on Sunday, January 23, 2022 10:44:18
    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's missin last 5.
    I may have the whole collection I will take a look as soon as I can
    find them, I'll let you Know and if I do will make them avaliable.
    Sam

    Thanks.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to T.J. Mcmillen on Sunday, January 23, 2022 12:14:05
    Hello T.J.,

    Saturday January 22 2022 18:20, you wrote to me:

    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's missing
    the last 5.

    I know Mike Elhert had the whole NO collection. Maybe he could help?

    -- Sean

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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to Sean Dennis on Sunday, January 23, 2022 15:57:30
    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's missin the last 5.

    I know Mike Elhert had the whole NO collection. Maybe he could help?

    Maybe I'll get lucky and he'll read this ... ;)

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  • From Scott Styles@1:229/470 to T.J. Mcmillen on Sunday, January 23, 2022 16:15:32
    On 1/23/2022 3:57 PM, T.J. Mcmillen wrote to Sean Dennis:

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    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's missin
    the last 5.

    I know Mike Elhert had the whole NO collection. Maybe he could help?

    Maybe I'll get lucky and he'll read this ... ;)

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    You can find many, if not all, of the Night Owl Shareware volumes here:

    https://archive.org/search.php?query=night+owl

    Cheers,
    Scott
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  • From Jas Hud to all on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 01:21:40
    Re: Night Owl
    By: Sean Dennis to T.J. Mcmillen on Sun Jan 23 2022 12:14 pm

    Hello T.J.,

    Saturday January 22 2022 18:20, you wrote to me:

    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's
    missing the last 5.

    I know Mike Elhert had the whole NO collection. Maybe he could help?

    -- Sean
  • From Jas Hud to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 01:24:14
    Re: Night Owl
    By: Sean Dennis to T.J. Mcmillen on Sun Jan 23 2022 12:14 pm

    Hello T.J.,

    Saturday January 22 2022 18:20, you wrote to me:

    Nope ... it's the highest that was uploaded there ... but it's
    missing the last 5.

    I know Mike Elhert had the whole NO collection. Maybe he could help?

    -- Sean

    hello, i know this is an old post but how many volumes is the nightowl collection?

    i know i have a pack of it but not sure if i have other nightowl stuff someplace else.

    looks like my pack is a rip off of http://cd.textfiles.com/nightowl/
  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to Jas Hud on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 06:03:15
    hello, i know this is an old post but how many volumes is the nightowl collection?

    I have up to 27 here ... 28 was the last I think.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Jas Hud on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:53:25
    Hello Jas,

    12 Apr 22 01:24, you wrote to me:

    hello, i know this is an old post but how many volumes is the nightowl collection?

    I want to say 28. There's also the C.A.R.R.S. series that was put out before the Night Owl series.

    -- Sean

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  • From Kevin Nunn@1:19/50 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 14:15:18
    SEAN DENNIS wrote to JAS HUD <=-

    I want to say 28. There's also the C.A.R.R.S. series that was put out before the Night Owl series.

    Oh the excitement of putting a Night Owl CD online for the BBS. Uber
    Leet!

    Kev

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  • From Jas Hud to T.J. Mcmillen on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 13:01:59
    Re: Re: Night Owl
    By: T.J. Mcmillen to Jas Hud on Tue Apr 12 2022 06:03 am

    hello, i know this is an old post but how many volumes is the
    nightowl collection?

    I have up to 27 here ... 28 was the last I think.



    well we probably have all those files from the entire set. we just dont have the entire set.

    well minus windows junk and the gifs.
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Kevin Nunn on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 19:44:46
    Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    Oh the excitement of putting a Night Owl CD online for the BBS. Uber
    Leet!

    I wrote a script to do it for me under Maximus. Had several online for a
    year; didn't have a single download from any of them. Took them offline and haven't bothered since.

    -- Sean

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  • From Kevin Nunn@1:19/50 to Sean Dennis on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 11:10:18
    SEAN DENNIS wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

    I wrote a script to do it for me under Maximus. Had several online for
    a year; didn't have a single download from any of them. Took them
    offline and haven't bothered since.

    Back in the 90s when I put mine up, I had callers DLing stuff all the
    time. Even thought about getting a 2nd line.

    After the internet, they were useless though.

    Kev

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Kevin Nunn on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 07:08:00
    Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    Oh the excitement of putting a Night Owl CD online for the BBS. Uber
    Leet!

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size
    of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, how
    I wanted that back in the day...


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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Kurt Weiske on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:58:00
    Kurt Weiske wrote to Kevin Nunn <=-

    Oh the excitement of putting a Night Owl CD online for the BBS. Uber
    Leet!

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was
    the size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that
    took 5 disks. Oh, how I wanted that back in the day...

    I had one of those on my BBS back in the early/mid 90's. It was a
    Panasonic brand, as I recall, and it's interface was SCSI. Kind of a
    bear to get configured/working with MSDOS, but it did work well. Having
    5 CDROMs online was really a nice thing back in those days. The
    "swimsuit GIFs" were very popular... LOL



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  • From Kevin Nunn@1:19/50 to Kurt Weiske on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 15:20:18
    KURT WEISKE wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the
    size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5
    disks. Oh, how I wanted that back in the day...

    One of my OS/2 clients who was a CPA had all those CPA books on
    CD/PDF and he had a big CD changer to handle that stuff. I drooled over
    it everytime I was at his place. That was in the 90s.

    Kev


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  • From Kevin Nunn@1:19/50 to Dan Clough on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 15:21:18
    DAN CLOUGH wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    Having 5 CDROMs online was really a nice thing back in those days. The "swimsuit GIFs" were very popular... LOL

    Oh those were popular. I remember having a file transfer program that
    would show the images as they came in. That was so cool. Can't remember
    the name of it though.

    Kev


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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:129/305 to Kurt Weiske on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 16:27:32
    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h I wanted that back in the day...

    I had 2 of those, 2 hard drives and 4 panasonic cd-roms in my BBS tower in the hay day. That was 4 discs online, plus the 2 4 disc changers, made 8 discs online at once.

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online at all times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.

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  • From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to Kurt Weiske on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 20:19:19
    |03Quoting message from |11Kurt Weiske |03to |11Kevin Nunn
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 07:08:00|03.

    Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    Oh the excitement of putting a Night Owl CD online for the BBS. Uber Leet!

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h I wanted that back in the day...



    yeah, i wanted one too. i was so pathetic!

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  • From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to Kevin Nunn on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 20:20:01
    |03Quoting message from |11Kevin Nunn |03to |11Dan Clough
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 15:21:18|03.

    DAN CLOUGH wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    Having 5 CDROMs online was really a nice thing back in those days. T "swimsuit GIFs" were very popular... LOL

    Oh those were popular. I remember having a file transfer program that
    would show the images as they came in. That was so cool. Can't remember
    the name of it though.


    i think qmodem for windows did it. is that a nipple or elbow?
    time will tell.

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  • From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to T.J. Mcmillen on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 20:20:50
    |03Quoting message from |11T.J. Mcmillen |03to |11Kurt Weiske
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 16:27|03.

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h I wanted that back in the day...

    I had 2 of those, 2 hard drives and 4 panasonic cd-roms in my BBS tower in hay day. That was 4 discs online, plus the 2 4 disc changers, made 8 disc online at once.

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online at times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.



    yeah but most of those cds were all junk and the same stuff over and over again. then they were filled with cruddy shareware.

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  • From Glenn Rossi@1:275/301 to Jas Hud on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 22:30:48
    On 4/13/2022 4:20 PM, Jas Hud wrote:
    |03Quoting message from |11T.J. Mcmillen |03to |11Kurt Weiske
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 16:27|03.

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size
    of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h
    I wanted that back in the day...

    I had 2 of those, 2 hard drives and 4 panasonic cd-roms in my BBS tower in
    hay day. That was 4 discs online, plus the 2 4 disc changers, made 8 disc
    online at once.

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online at times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.



    yeah but most of those cds were all junk and the same stuff over and over again. then they were filled with cruddy shareware.

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    Imagine this monstrosity... at one point I had a dual SCSI controller
    with 2 5-disc changers and 8 single drive CD-ROMs. All external. What
    a cabling nightmare. Internally there were 2 IDE 500MB drives and 2 1GB
    SCSI drives. I also had a pair of glacier-slow 2GB "tape-disk" drives.

    Needless to say, free drive letters were scarce.

    I had an IDE CD Changer that held 3 discs, but it was always jamming up.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Kevin Nunn on Thursday, April 14, 2022 07:07:00
    Kevin Nunn wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    One of my OS/2 clients who was a CPA had all those CPA books on
    CD/PDF and he had a big CD changer to handle that stuff. I drooled over
    it everytime I was at his place. That was in the 90s.

    When I was a telecom manager, I would have loved to have all of the Northern Telecom PBX documentation in a changer. The NTPs, as they called them, originally came in a dozen or so spiral bound books, and later on a handful
    of CDs.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to T.J. Mcmillen on Thursday, April 14, 2022 07:20:00
    T.J. Mcmillen wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online
    at all times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.

    You and me both. I keep thinking about all of the messages that have gone since 1988, when I started running BBSes instead of calling them. I was a co-sysop for a BBS, and managed a handful of networked bases. Started my own BBS in 1991.

    We were a bunch of naive kids, and we learned about life as we went, and documented our lives on the BBSes like a community journal.

    We had a couple of people go through their first big romances on the BBS,
    and their first breakups. Callers dating callers. Callers breaking up with callers. First jobs. First firings. Many other firsts.

    The text file writers went through a Hunter S. Thompson phase in the early '90s, I'd love to revisit those messages.

    Back then, I had 3 32mb hard drives, then a 120, then a 320. Would have
    been great to be able to afford historical backups. As it is, I have one partial backup from 1994 and one from 1999.




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