Groups: The Banana Republic BBS

A Rare Specimen from the country of New Zealand, the Banana Republic BBS lived from the late 80's to the Early 90's, where El Presidente encouraged his users to write all sorts of entertaining files, mostly fiction, but with some computer-oriented and even illegal topics thrown in.


Filename
Size
Description of the Textfile
abe-anan.txt 2394
The Gettysburg Banana Address, from the Banana Republic BBS
aptel89.txt 6913
Applied Telecommunications Goes to Computing '89, by Iceman of the Banana Republic BBS
aptel90.txt 6919
Applied Telecommunications Goes to Computing '90, by Iceman of the Banana Republic BBS
ban_relg.txt 3943
The Divine Inspiration of the Great Banana, from the Banana Republic BBS
banana.txt 21858
Six Men and a Banana, from the Banana Republic BBS
barri.txt 8194
The Story of Barri, an Unusual Banana, from the Banana Republic BBS
beau.txt 3932
Baron Beauregard of the Baskervilles "The Bastard", from the Banana Republic BBS
br_ode.txt 812
Ode to the Banana Republic BBS by The Great Rabbi Bajzheet
brparty.txt 9389
Report from the BR Party, held by the Banana Republic BBS (November 27, 1989)
card.txt 6734
A Brief Guide to Magentic Strip and Smart Cards, by Iceman of the Banana Republic BBS
dictate.txt 7354
El Presidente's Tutorial for Sysops, by El Presidente of the Banana Republic BBS
environ.txt 2496
What is "Environmentally Friendly"? by El Presidente of the Banana Republic BBS
gbs.txt 16598
Metaphysical Ambience by A. McCully and Rez Errection of The Banana Republic BBS
history.txt 36394
Iceman's History of the World, by Iceman of the Banana Republic BBS
intrview.txt 2091
An Interview with El Presidente, by Iceman of the Banana Republic BBS
logoff.001 883
Logoff Screen: Brought To you by the Letters B and R
logoff.002 293
Logoff Screen: Thank You, Barri
logoff.003 215
Logoff Screen: Oh, the Burden
logoff.004 655
Logoff Screen: And Lo it Came to Pass
logoff.005 4654
Logoff Screen: Roll the Credits (1990)
nzfones.txt 7501
Phreaking in NZ by The Defecator of Banana Republic BBS (January 24, 1989)
sph-1.txt 2985
The Story of the Sphereoids, by the Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
sph-2.txt 1990
The Spheroids, Part 2, by Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
sph-3.txt 3188
The Sphereoids Part 3, by Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
sph-4.txt 3157
The Sphereoids Part 4, by Bat Bastard of the Banana Republic BBS
sph-5.txt 3399
The Sphereoids Part 5, by Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
sph-6.txt 4130
The Sphereoids Part VI, by Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
sph-7.txt 3279
The Spheroids Part 7 by Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
sph-8.txt 5508
The Sphereoids Part 8, by Bat Bastard of Banana Republic BBS
stamps.txt 4029
Cheating Stamps version 2.0 by Pharlap Johnson of The Banana Republic BBS
unixhack.txt 68012
The Iceman's Guide to UNIX Hacking by the Iceman of Banana Republic BBS (June 1, 1990)
welcome.001 400
Welcome Screen: Please Bare With us
welcome.002 632
Welcome Screen: It's Christmas Time
welcome.003 683
Welcome Screen: Is This Fantasy Island?
welcome.004 1310
Welcome Screen: Citizens of the Banana Republic!
welcome.005 1054
Welcome Screen: Hello, you Sweet Lovely User Person!!!!!
welcome.006 674
Welcome Screen: Picture It...
welcome.007 910
Welcome Screen: Oh Woe!
welcome.008 1119
Welcome Screen: El Presidente Seeks Your Help
welcome.009 557
Welcome Screen: QUIET JOHNNY
welcome.010 616
Welcome Screen: M U N J A
welcome.011 1954
Welcome Screen: El Presidente, etc, etc
welcome.012 936
Welcome Screen: Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles
welcome.013 808
Welcome Screen: The Spanish Civil War
welcome.014 420
Welcome Screen: Sound the Alarm
welcome.015 592
Welcome Screen: Radical Changes in Immigration
welcome.016 787
Welcome Screen: Send in a Major Limb
welcome.017 517
Welcome Screen: The Appeal to the United Nations
welcome.018 2946
Welcome Screen: no no no no no
welcome.019 648
Welcome Screen: It Works!

There are 50 files for a total of 267,462 bytes.