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Whoops, hollers, yells ? New Grass %! m~ m rim in iltfJf d^r Hyy * Ifln^K flB Electronic bul By WAYNE YANG Copy desk chief Connection confirmed . . . identity not established. Password? (CR if new user), says the computer's screen. A blinking cursor waits at the end of thp linp The person at the terminal types H-E-R-O-I-C-S and waits. Welcome, Bionic Baby, calling from Columbia, S.C. You've called the WordWorks 112 times before. Searching message base. You have the following waiting: The computer goes through a list of posted messages for Bionic Baby. Read now? Bionic Baby decides that, yes, he wants to read his mail now. MSG 49695 ARTS AND SCIENCES 01/14/88 21:19:51 (READ 2 TIMES) FROM: JAMES ROSE TO: BIONIC BABY SUBJECT: MOVIES Bio, did you see that crummy movie on HBO last night? What's with all the gore, the bloody limbs and teeth? Bionic Baby is on the WordWorks electronic bulletin board service ? "BBS" to the faithful. A BBS is a glorified, computerized bulletin board. Computer users hook translator boxes, "modems," to their computers and link their computers by phone. These modems can tirelessly translate computer language to electrical phone impulses, then back to computer language ? two THE NOID CAN NOW YOU CAI Right now, you can discover how the best just Call U got a little better. Enjoy special savings from Serving Domino's Pizza? with Area: these coupons. You'll see aj-a why more people call us C.OO for pizza delivery than all 1124 Dev the rest combined. And now, there's another reason w/hu tha hoct iiict can't be beat. f $6.99 [ 2 ; SPECIAL!; $ BaflH Just call and order fHSIHB ra ONE Large 16" J IQffl| H* cheese pizza for only $6.99! Each | [DiEM, additional topping just $1.29. (Tax not included.) Good thru: 10/30/88. OUR DRIVERS CARRY LESS THAN $20. | OUR DRIVEF Valid at participating stores only Not valid with Valio at particip af>y other offer. Limited delivery areas. | any other o ?1988 Domino's Pizza. 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Inc NOID' design in Claymation- by Will Vinton Productions, Inc. lacked house at By CHUCK DEAN Staff writer New Grass Revival played to a packed house this Friday at Greenstreets. Greenstreets, at 1011 Harden Street at the Bazaar, has been working overtime providing Colum- b hianc with lino ? u' - >U> tup-ui-iuv-iuiv V.1IIW laiiuutui a I ICctSUUclUlC 1 prices. T Earlier this month, Greenstreets presented the likes of h Marti Jones, The Swimming Pool Q's, Leon Redbone and e: Moja Nya. On Wednesday and Thursday the club will rock reggae-style with Columbia favorite I-TAL; Oct. 24 si sees legendary John Prine performing. Camper Van " Beethoven, a popular band around college campuses, will c perform Oct. 28, and on Oct. 30, the Texan Johnny s< Winter will play. t The club is particularly good for seeing big-name acts s< because of the stage setup ? there is virtually not a bad F seat in the house. Plus, Greenstreets offers to-your-table cocktail waitress service ? a rarity for rock'n'roll clubs in this area. They're nice waitresses, too. They'll bring L you a bowl of chips if you ask nicely. ai So, New Grass Revival? The audience's reaction includ- f? ed whoops, hollers, yells and several standing ovations. All during the performance, tUe crowd requested one song it after another ? knowing the band's repertoire by heart. gJ At one point, the band told the crowd, "Well, if they ain't b no requests, we'll sing you this song . . ." John Cowan, Bela Fleck, Pat Flynn and Sam Bush cl make up New Grass Revival ? producing a fc -tech toy of newGreat Big Hairy Deal or something in a simil Pvein. The people who call up WordWorks regulai aren't looking for anything more than intelligt electronic correspondence." An IBM PC clone, a single floppy disk drive 20 megabyte hard disk drive, an Epson MXprinter, an Everex modem card and TBBS coi munications software make up the actual coi ponents of the Works. The hardware, the electronic components these are physical parts. As any person on t WordWorks will tell you, electronic parts do noi BBS make. ni "the works is the people on the Works," sa h/ one BBSer. "Sure, any BBS can come up with tl Ji part or this board, or this message base or ti || editorial base. But can any other system come i with Milo Bloom, Oliver Wendell Jones or Y jjj Blazoo? The Works is the only system in Columt HI where you can have an intelligent discussion with J cartoon character." Well, not exactly cartoon characters, but peop ] ? professors, public officials and students ? w] ? choose to use pseudonyms out of necessity Sure, there are real "characters" on the Wor Works, too. No dialogue can go on long withoul iff^T one"l*ner from the mischievous Ray Radlein. The o J is also Bill Weston, the "Answerman Residence" on the ARTS AND SCIENCES boar Weston, a professional detective, prides himself < being able to find the most arcane and trivial faci He insists, for instance, that he knows the set! . . I ? f "office of Alcohol an 1 m?wj-?ES! Monday, Oct. 17 12 noon - Brown Bag Lunch Meeting "Drug Testing & Employment" 6:30 pm - Radio Talk Show, "DUI issues & Answers" I Tuesday, Oct. 18 10 am - Russell House Patio yBk Extravaganza and Banner Co / 5 pm - "A Conversation with A > I Children of Alcoholics" \ # Wednesday, Oct. 19 J 5 pm - "Are You Willing to / 7 pm - The Brain Strain . 'A / ^ Lh Paid for, in part, by Student Activity Fees. Sponsors ^ % V Counseling and Human Development Center, Office of C % \ > | University Dining Services, USC School of > Greenstreets Concert Review ] luegrass/gospel/rock-a-billy/rock'n'roll type of music, heir second album for Capital Records was just released, he success of this band rests in the fact that the four men ave a chemistry going ? it propels their energetic set and xhausts the audience. Some of Friday's highlights included a lengthy inrumental written by Fleck, the banjo man. This song, Bigfoot," was a musical romp that brought about^a harlie Daniels kind of feeling. Fleck has just released a dIo album, Drive, on Rounder Records. The Los Angeles lerald Examiner wrote of him: "Fleck is a wonder. He Dunds like no banjo player before him." He proved it riday night. Bush played a mean mandolin on a tune called, "Last etter Home" and had people dancing and clogging in the isles and yelling "Ya-hoooooooo." Another crowd ivorite was the energy-packed "Out of the Darkness." New Grass Revival, with their polished, uplifting lusic, deserve the respect, praise and success they are arnering. As proven Friday, the band is great, and the and's music is available on Captial Records. The club is Greenstreets ? 779-8252. It is a rock'n'roll ub ? more so, a live rock'n'roll club. If you're looking >r a great rock'n'roll experience, go there. breed hackers lar formula for Coca-Cola. rly The system is also populated by characters such :nt as the Censorship Sentinel, who gives case studies of current censorship incidents and punctuates his , a call to arms with Write! Write! Write! Stand up 80 and be counted! m- "As far as the community of the m- Works . . . They are a group of nasty, opinionated, arrogant, over-educated, well-read, in? telligent . . . Hey, I like them," Weston says. "I he mean, one can be 'nice' just so long until t a somebody rubs you the wrong way, then you have to get nasty. But I think that the majority of callers lys here expect that. In fact, many of them hope for it. us une weeK, you ana anoiner cauer may oe at oaas, lis the next, you stand side by side." up Of course, there is Wes Ives ? Wesley D. Ives ? 54 creator, arbitrator and system censor of the Wordda Works. Ives is the sysop, systems operator, the one 1 a who created this monster compilation of message boards. >le "If it wasn't for the cheap beer and classical do music, I'd probably never get any sys-oping done, or The computing is definitely subordinate, and I'm therefore not what I consider a computer whiz." d- Ives brought the system to Columbia in 1986 : a from Winston-Salem, N.C., where the system was re born in August 1983. Ives says that during its exin istence "the WordWorks has received something d. like one call every hour, 24 hours a day, from throughout the country" and has been running tSv continuously "since it first fell captive to the Song SL . of the Wires,"- "py- ? i Drug Program? I ywareness Weei i .r.noUTimesOre^. \ 4:30 pm - Non Alcoholic Night Club :30 pm - Keynote Speaker, former \ \ \ New York Knick's player, Tom Riker \ \ \ K\\ V, Oct. 21 \\\ - Happy Hour at the PE Center \ * information, please call 111-*' Icohol and Drug Pro'nt Life/Divi*;' ^Ou/? or ^ri}s / include: BACCHUS/GAMMA. Career Center I Wm 'ampus Recreation, Residence Hall Association, Jim ledicine, WUSC-FM and WYYS-FM. ^