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Message no. 1
From: Erik Hultgren <EHULTGRE@******.BITNET>
Subject: Shadowland BBS
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 13:34:56 EST
Okay, Rob, good point. Most college kids don't have much money. all right,
does anyone know just how much it costs to set up a node on bitnet or internet.
I probably can't afford it ( it's got to be insanely high?).
Maybe I can talk the Computer Services department to run it here at school. If
I say that it is for gathering information on a paper I have to write for next
fall, they might go fot it. CHeck out this topic: Cyberspace and Virtual
Reality: The Future of Computing.

I have to dig around and find out just how much farther we have to go before
the matrix is within our grasp. This is probably the most fun I have/will eve
r get out of a research paper( more like a thesis!).

Anybody got any info out there for me??

CHeers!
-Warlok
--ehultgre@******.kent.edu
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shadowland BBS
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 12:48:57 -0600
On Sun, 5 Dec 1993, Erik Hultgren wrote:

> Okay, Rob, good point. Most college kids don't have much money. all right,
> does anyone know just how much it costs to set up a node on bitnet or internet.

About $1,000 a month for a 56k line. Perhaps $50 a month (average) for a
14.4k SLIP line (which would be far too slow for a multi-user system in
reality)

> I probably can't afford it ( it's got to be insanely high?).
> Maybe I can talk the Computer Services department to run it here at school. If
> I say that it is for gathering information on a paper I have to write for next
> fall, they might go fot it. CHeck out this topic: Cyberspace and Virtual
> Reality: The Future of Computing.

Gosh, sounds like what I'm doing.

Probably not worth it, though. Cyberpunk is not a very good setting for
a BBS, for a MUD, perhaps, it might work.



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Message no. 3
From: The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shadowland BBS
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 13:33:35 -0600
>Okay, Rob, good point. Most college kids don't have much money. all right,
>does anyone know just how much it costs to set up a node on bitnet or internet.

Gee, that sounds an awful lot like Shadowtalk.

J Roberson
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Shadowland BBS
Date: Fri Feb 8 23:40:07 2002
If anyone here plays Shadowland, I would greatly appreciate any pointers to
whacking into it again. All I get when I punch in its web name-address is a
page that reads .




The Wyrm Ouroboros
'Half Russian mathemetician,
half Silicon Valley code freak.'

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