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*'''Delete'''. Sole claim to notability, or source of interest from a computer history standpoint, is his BBS [[Electric Magazine]]. A move there is worth considering if better sourcing turns up (I spent the last half hour digging in my basement for that ''Compute!'s Gazette'' issue, to no avail), but I'm not seeing anything that would pass [[WP:BIO]]. —[[User:Korath|Korath]] ([[User talk:Korath|Talk]]) 01:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
*'''Note'''. Most of this article was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Shannon_(computer_programmer)&diff=prev&oldid=29958569 autobiographical]. See the old AfD for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FFounder_of_the_Bulletin_Board_System&action=historysubmit&diff=29819258&oldid=29807618 another IP] whose prefix matches this one, and admits to be Shannon. You may also want to read the comment made by [[Jason Scott Sadofsky]] ([[User:jscott]]) in [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Founder_of_the_Bulletin_Board_System|the previous AfD]]. The claim that his is the 1st [[Commodore VIC-20]] BBS is also dubious given that bbsdocumentary.com only lists one such system, and it isn't Shannon's; see [http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/COMMODORE/VIC-20]. The [[COMPUTE!'s Gazette]] snippet only mentions [[Commodore 64]] as platform for "Electric Magazine". [[User:Pohta ce-am pohtit|Pcap]] [[User_talk:Pohta ce-am pohtit|<small>ping</small>]] 02:18, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
*'''Delete''' No reliable sources to verify the claim made by the author of this autobiography. First BBS may be notable, but first for a specific computer would require very good sourcing showing significance. <span style="font-family:Papyrus">[[User:Verbal|<b style="color:#C72">Verbal</b>]] <small>[[User talk:Verbal#top|<span style="color:Gray;">chat</span>]]</small></span> 16:53, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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