After getting well over a thousand textfiles, The Works decided that it should give back by creating a textfile writing group. Jason was fond of the word "Octothorpe", which was the Bell System name for the pound button on a telephone keypad. Hence, Octothorpe Productions was born.
As the leader and maintainer of these files, I can give insight into the experience of a typical textfile group. Unfortunately, most of my insight is that I simply kept a special file upload area on the BBS open for my friends to add files to. Some did, and many did not. The Cruiser took it and ran with it, producing all sorts of files about the typical subjects a good group would cover, like phreaking and music. The Mathematician kept donating fiction, and I buzzed in here and there with any and all writings I came up with, branding them "Octothorpe Productions".
Octothorpe Productions lived with the first Works BBS, from 1986-1988.
Filename | Size | Description of the Textfileblood! | 9609 | The Final Blood, from Octothorpe Productions
| bookjob.oct | 10240 | The Unauthorized Summary of the Book of Job
| cfh.oct | 21295 | Comments From Hell, from The Works
| extentio.oct | 1136 | The Works Sacred Extention List
| gabriel.oct | 2157 | "Textfiles", to the tune of "Big Time"
| globmute.oct | 4753 | Making a Global Hold/Mute Switch, by The Cruiser
| hashoil.txt | 4666 | THC-resin Extraction reprinted from "Marijuana Hydroponics: High-Tech Water Culture" by Daniel Storm, published by And/Or Books, Typed/edited by The Deviant of The Works BBS
| journal1.oct | 24893 | Miscellaneous Techniques for the Telecommunications Hobbyist
| kilroy.lyr | 7841 | Lyrics to Styc: Kilroy Was Here
| labamba.lyr | 1983 | Translation for La Bamba
| mytapes.mus | 7149 | The Cruiser's Record and Tape Selection
| osunycom.adv | 6155 | Infocom Adventure Parody of an OSUNY Meeting
| paranoia.oct | 6632 | Paranoia: By the Mathematician
| partcoll.oct | 28672 | Transcription of Playboy's Top 40 Party Colleges
| pezrambl.oct | 20975 | Mr. Pez's Rambling about Textfiles
| ramble2.oct | 977 | Oh God Pez is Up So Late
| ramble3.oct | 3398 | Mr. Pez's Third Ramble
| ramble4.oct | 2944 | Pez in an entropic mood today.
| ranier.lyr | 2819 | Ranier -- A Song Parody by Night Hawk and The Cruiser
| realpez.oct | 16384 | Real Pez Devotees
| realwork.oct | 3394 | Real Works Users
| rfp1.fun | 5778 | Radiological Fun Pages
| rfp2.fun | 7201 | More Radiological Funnies
| sentit.txt | 1196 | The Slipped Disk Answers the Trivia Question and Blabs for a Paragraph
| shopanar.ana | 7546 | Anarchy In Your Local Supermarket, by The Slipped Disk and The Outland
| transpl.oct | 3178 | "Transplant" By: Jason Scott
| twk.oct | 4096 | Hi, I'm the Wiz Kid!
| twk2.oct | 9216 | You should check out The Wiz Kid's RHBBS!
| whytext.oct | 2223 | Why I choose textfiles, by Jason Scott
| works2.oct | 5047 | The Guide to Real Works Users
| xmas.oct | 7655 | Shedding True Light on Christmas Day, by The Cruiser
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