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The result was '''delete'''. '''[[User:Cirt|Cirt]]''' ([[User talk:Cirt|talk]]) 16:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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::: Thanks for posting that. I've read the entire column, there's no mention of Shannon writing a VIC-20 BBS, only a Commodore 64 one. Instead, [[Tony Ott]] is credited with writing a VIC-20 BBS in that column, but there's no claim that that one was the first BBS for that platform either. So, what we have here based on secondary sources is the author of just another Commodore 64 BBS software. There were dozens of these if look at [[textfiles.com]]. Doesn't qualify anyone for a biography here via [[WP:ANYBIO]] or [[WP:AUTHOR]]. There are also extremely few details about the BBS software itself (14Kb of BASIC, and sold 400 copies); it's very hard to even write an article about that. [[User:Pohta ce-am pohtit|Pcap]] [[User_talk:Pohta ce-am pohtit|<small>ping</small>]] 09:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

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