BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: Looking for screenshots/a De: MRO Data: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:59:00 -0600 ----------------------------------------------------------- Re: Looking for screenshots/a By: Greek Times to All on Sun Feb 22 2026 11:00 am > Hey all, > I've been doing some research into what I'd call the "overlooked" > side of BBS aesthetics -- the corporate and vendor support boards > that companies ran in the late 80s and early 90s. Think Creative > Labs, Novell, US Robotics, Hayes, Compaq, Dell, Microsoft, > and similar operations. The boards where you'd dial in to grab a > Sound Blaster driver or post a question about your NetWare > configuration. > What I'm trying to track down is whether anyone has preserved > screenshots or captures of what those menus actually looked like. > Most of them were running TBBS, Wildcat! or PCBoard, and my > assumption is that they used fairly minimal ANSI -- colored text > menus, maybe a simple company name header, but nothing like the art > scene boards? Functional and to the point? > I think that, these boards were treated as disposable infrastructure. > Once the company moved to FTP sites and then the web, nobody thought > to capture what those interfaces looked like before pulling the > plug. The hobby boards, the art scene, the warez boards; those all > had communities that cared about preserving that culture. But the > vendor support boards it seems that it kind of slipped under the There's nothing special about it. they were boring stock bbses. you could download a few things. i called every one i could find. there wasn't any support on the msg bases. these places want you to call in voice for support. if you emailed the sysop they didn't reply. it's not overlooked. there's nothing to look at. -- "Before using Wildcat....This Company did not have a convenient way of looking after some of the richest clients in the world...Now we do!" --- Synchronet ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services ::: ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]