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*'''Comment''': A portion of the ''COMPUTE! Gazette'' article cited is available [http://bobshannon.org/gazette.htm on the subject's homepage]. —[[User:Korath|Korath]] ([[User talk:Korath|Talk]]) 01:09, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
** That hardly satisfies [[WP:GNG]] as it's 3-paragraphs in one article presumably not exclusively about him. There's no mention of him or his BBS in http://timeline.textfiles.com, which is generally accepted as reliable source per [http://books.google.com/books?id=26NyHREJwP8C&pg=PA1926&dq=bbs+history&cd=1#v=onepage&q=bbs%20history&f=false]. The fact that he says on his home page "Skeptics abound as per me calling myself the founder of the BBS System." is a good reason to be very suspicious of anything sourced from there. See [[CBBS]], which matches the book source I linked above. [[User:Pohta ce-am pohtit|Pcap]] [[User_talk:Pohta ce-am pohtit|<small>ping</small>]] 01:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
*'''Keep'''. Maybe ''especially'' since most of the sources pre-date Google. We shouldn't delete topics (even computer topics) just because publications discussing them are not readily available online. Understanding history of software (and the people associated with it) is an excellent thing for WP to document, and this seems like an obviously notable individual in that early history of PCs. <font color="darkgreen">[[User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|LotLE]]</font>×<font color="darkred" size="-2">[[User talk:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|talk]]</font> 01:33, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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