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[Solved] Seeking a name, from the mists of the past (lemmy.one)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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In the Silicon Valley / San Jose / Bay area, there was a BBS that had a hierarchical message board, Replies were ordered under posts or other replies. In the 80's this was an unusual feature of a bulletin system. The BBS was named for a character from some story. It was a hard to pronounce word/name starting with the letter 'P', and we mostly referred to the BBS as 'Pretzel' as that was a close approximation to the original word. Anyone know which BBS I am talking about?

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[–] wisemanzero@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was it Pyrzqxgl, by chance? Even if not, it's probably on the list I got it from.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 3 points 7 months ago

Yep! Thanks! You get the prize for the quickest answer and Steven gets the prize for Most complete. No, there are no actual prizes except getting to claim the title "Sleuth Extraordinaire"