Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps

I found the posting reference here: http://maryannhorton.com/usenet/010180.MAP.jpg https://utzoo.superglobalmegacorp.com/usenet/news005f1/b12/net.general/1501… http://maryannhorton.com/usenet/032183.BBM.jpg https://utzoo.superglobalmegacorp.com/usenet/news004f1/b11/net.news/541.txt http://maryannhorton.com/usenet/040581.MAP.jpg The map is mentioned in here: http://www.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/articles/earlyversion.arpanet.txt As far as BBM files I just find this: Name: Graphics Display System (GDS) Purpose: Image display, conversion, thumbnail catalogs Version: 3.1e Author: Photodex Corporation <photodex(a)netcom.com> FTP: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ph/photodex CIS: GO PHOTODEX, GDS Viewing Software (Lib 3) Imports: ANS (ANSI text), BBM, BMF, BMP, CUT/PAL (Dr. Halo), DIB, DL, FLC, FLI, FLX, GDS, GIF, GL, HAM, ICO, IFF/ILBM, IMG, JFI, JPG (JFIF), LBM, MAC, MP2 & MPA (MPEG Audio), MPG, PCC, PCX, RAX, RFX, RLE, SC? (ColoRIX), TGA, TIFF and TXT (text). Exports: ANS (ANSI text), BBM, BMP, CUT/PAL (Dr. Halo), GDS, GIF, IFF/ILBM, IMG, JFI, JPG (JFIF), LBM, PCC, PCX, RAX, RFX, RLE, SC? (ColoRIX), TGA, and TIFF. Features: File viewing, batch conversions, easy thumbnail catalog creation with many options, slide shows, automatic configuration. Includes 5000+ lines of hypertext help and prints 98 page cross referenced manual. Supports HGC, CGA, EGA, S-EGA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, TIGA and VESA. Registered versions print to HP PCL & 100% compatible laser and inkjet printers. Comments: Used by CompuServe sysops to catalog over 40,000 images regularly. ASP approved shareware. No idea if it survives at all. If you can screen shot the headers of the posts it’s easier to find them in old usenet archives. The UTZOO stuff is an AMAZING resource. It’s been incredibly valuable looking for old stuff. Of course the real fun is in searching it. Feel free to wget the BZ2 files from: https://utzoo.superglobalmegacorp.com/ Just don’t spider into the /usenet directory as it’s all the files extracted and you’ll no doubt be pulling several million files… much easier to get the .tar.bz2 ‘s. From: Mary Ann Horton Gmail Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 8:40 AM To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org Subject: Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps I put the screenshots (literally - with my phone) here: http://maryannhorton.com/usenet/ Note the preposterous claim that the 4/15/81 map is the "Backbone" - I have no idea where that came from. The backbone was first proposed 2 years later. Clearly this is a full map of Usenet as of 4/15/81.     Mary Ann On 6/23/19 4:57 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: