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I added a bunch of content to the article. The problem is that the reference is material in print format, which came with the original BBS software. I added it anyway, because it provides helpful keywords to what to look for. I will be looking for other references myself, but if you come across anything usefull, please add it to the article or to the article's talk page. -- roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 07:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Cite the books. Name, author, date, etc. So far as I know, the word processor or DTP or other source format files for the paper manuals were never published and are lost, so paper is what we've got. Jim.henderson 16:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
As the primary author of the first couple versions of the PCBoard Programming Language, I believe I am probably ineligible to edit the article. However, I noted a missing 'award' in the awards section: The PCBoard Programming Language was awarded a 1994 Dvorak Award for Telecommunications Excellence (Outstanding PC Telecommunications Technology; http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/index.html#1994). Alternatively, it might better belong with "PCBoard Programming Language" (which currently redirects to PCBoard Programming Executable): I'm not sure, so I thought I'd throw it out there for discussion. CasaDeRobison 01:04, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it really LPT ports you used to connect the modems? I myself always used my COM ports. Do I miss out something here? Simon Johansson 20:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I did not notice any mention of PCBUUCP (which I wrote originally; it was a kludgy but functional way of supporting Internet email and Usenet via the unix-to-unix copy protocol) or PCBEdit (which was a fairly simple text editor with support for PCBoard @-macros and @X-colors; both could be toggled on and off, turning it into a simple plain text editor).
I was originally hired to work on PCBComm, an already in development GUI telecommunications program that would login to a PCBoard system and parse the text stream with the help of some 'undocumented' hooks. It was supposed to provide a simple user experience for novices who didn't have experience with standard terminal software or bulletin board software. Unfortunate for that project was the high level of configuration that could be applied to PCBoard (and this was before the PCBoard Programming Language was introduced). That high level of configuration, especially when combined with the problem of communication errors (either the connection between modems, the connection between the modem and the com port on either the BBS or user side, or the quality of UART and/or software on either the BBS or user side,) made it all but impossible to reliably parse the text stream and present it in a comfortable GUI.
Sorry, I don't have references for any of these (other than myself; don't know what Wikipedia policy is about this form of reference.)
CasaDeRobison 20:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
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From the article:
"PCBoard v16 has been rewritten using Modern Pascal CodeRunner. The pre-alpha early experience is available via Telnet at SaltAirBBS.com on port 23."
The relationship between this so-called "PCBoard v16" and the "original" PCBoard is tenuous at best. It is being done by an independent third party by re-writing code released PCBoard source into a Pascal-like language (I don't know the exact details; Pascal-like is not meant to be derogatory), but according to information I've read, the final version of the product will have a different name, and it should probably not be called "PCBoard v16" any more than early Windows should be described as "Macintosh vX" or Microsoft Word be described as "WordPerfect vY".
I don't object to it being referenced, but it almost certainly should go into its own section and include a better description of what it really is.
CasaDeRobison ( talk) 18:42, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
After doing some more digging, I suspect that the person who performed the edits is either the author of so-called PCBoard v16 as the only pages ever updated by that ip address have to do with PCBoard and Pascal related things. Given that there are no citations, it seems like a prime candidate for reversion.
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I added a bunch of content to the article. The problem is that the reference is material in print format, which came with the original BBS software. I added it anyway, because it provides helpful keywords to what to look for. I will be looking for other references myself, but if you come across anything usefull, please add it to the article or to the article's talk page. -- roy<sac> Talk! .oOo. 07:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Cite the books. Name, author, date, etc. So far as I know, the word processor or DTP or other source format files for the paper manuals were never published and are lost, so paper is what we've got. Jim.henderson 16:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
As the primary author of the first couple versions of the PCBoard Programming Language, I believe I am probably ineligible to edit the article. However, I noted a missing 'award' in the awards section: The PCBoard Programming Language was awarded a 1994 Dvorak Award for Telecommunications Excellence (Outstanding PC Telecommunications Technology; http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/index.html#1994). Alternatively, it might better belong with "PCBoard Programming Language" (which currently redirects to PCBoard Programming Executable): I'm not sure, so I thought I'd throw it out there for discussion. CasaDeRobison 01:04, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Is it really LPT ports you used to connect the modems? I myself always used my COM ports. Do I miss out something here? Simon Johansson 20:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I did not notice any mention of PCBUUCP (which I wrote originally; it was a kludgy but functional way of supporting Internet email and Usenet via the unix-to-unix copy protocol) or PCBEdit (which was a fairly simple text editor with support for PCBoard @-macros and @X-colors; both could be toggled on and off, turning it into a simple plain text editor).
I was originally hired to work on PCBComm, an already in development GUI telecommunications program that would login to a PCBoard system and parse the text stream with the help of some 'undocumented' hooks. It was supposed to provide a simple user experience for novices who didn't have experience with standard terminal software or bulletin board software. Unfortunate for that project was the high level of configuration that could be applied to PCBoard (and this was before the PCBoard Programming Language was introduced). That high level of configuration, especially when combined with the problem of communication errors (either the connection between modems, the connection between the modem and the com port on either the BBS or user side, or the quality of UART and/or software on either the BBS or user side,) made it all but impossible to reliably parse the text stream and present it in a comfortable GUI.
Sorry, I don't have references for any of these (other than myself; don't know what Wikipedia policy is about this form of reference.)
CasaDeRobison 20:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
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From the article:
"PCBoard v16 has been rewritten using Modern Pascal CodeRunner. The pre-alpha early experience is available via Telnet at SaltAirBBS.com on port 23."
The relationship between this so-called "PCBoard v16" and the "original" PCBoard is tenuous at best. It is being done by an independent third party by re-writing code released PCBoard source into a Pascal-like language (I don't know the exact details; Pascal-like is not meant to be derogatory), but according to information I've read, the final version of the product will have a different name, and it should probably not be called "PCBoard v16" any more than early Windows should be described as "Macintosh vX" or Microsoft Word be described as "WordPerfect vY".
I don't object to it being referenced, but it almost certainly should go into its own section and include a better description of what it really is.
CasaDeRobison ( talk) 18:42, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
After doing some more digging, I suspect that the person who performed the edits is either the author of so-called PCBoard v16 as the only pages ever updated by that ip address have to do with PCBoard and Pascal related things. Given that there are no citations, it seems like a prime candidate for reversion.