European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Run wild Bill Husted Cox news service ii the women Are Beautiful and available the men Are Rich and handsome Welcome to the playhouse where talk is cheap and a a sex is free. Stay awhile and you la meet electric Blue Spanky and the love doctor. Stop by any time the place is open 24 hours a Day. The Only trick is finding the front door. And unless you have a computer Telephone line and Modem you can to get there from Here. The playhouse is one of uncounted thousands of electronic bulletin Board systems a electronic meeting places where the computer literate Exchange notes and computer software. The playhouse Isnit typical. There is no typical bulletin Board. Each is a creation of love built around the system operators own Peculiar interests. That a Why you la find bulletin boards for lawyers dentists Rock a no Roll music fans computer programmers and at the playhouse for or sexual hobbyists. No one knows precisely How Many bulletin boards Are in operation nationally but it Likely ranges in the hundreds of thousands anyone with a computer a Modem and a Telephone line can run one so boards Start and Stop More often than letter corrects some tint problems Carl Kramer Washington Post >0 a recently i shot two Rolls of Kodak of car 1000 inside using House lights no Flash and a filter to eliminate the yellow Orange tint that House lights give to film. The first Roll contained several pictures with Normal color and a few with a slight Blue tint from the filter. Every photo from the second Roll retained the yellow Orange tint As if i had not used a filter. What happened. I its the inconsistency of your problems that bothers Roe. I can Only guess that the two Rolls were processed at different times by your photo finishers and that could cause trouble. For careful processing of anything out of the Ordinary i stick with one lab. I Haye come to know the people who operate the machinery and they Are eager to help with special problems. I would have marked your film a indoors with Tungsten lighting please Correct to flesh tones most of the automatic processing machine scan be adjusted to handle such instructions. Some charge subscription fees of $20 to $40 a year others Are free. But unlike big for profit commercial systems such As Compuserve or Prodigy most bulletin boards Are operated As a Hobby. That a the Way it is at the playhouse operated by a likable 39-Ycar-Oid Atlanta car Salesman named Jim Campbell. To those who sign on to his Board he is the love doctor. To join the playhouse you must Complete a members. Not surprisingly most people see themselves in a favourable Light. The love doctor is no exception. He is a the most incredible Man you be Ever avs a maybe so maybe not. But the playhouse is certainly among the most unusual computer bulletin boards. A a a a a a a a a a everything that happens at the playhouse a flirting spouse swapping sadism a takes place in a fantasy world no bigger than a computer Monitor. The electronic messages get explicit but Campbell does no to think Many of the 67s people photography a do you know anything about Remote systems for cameras powered by radio frequencies a a a a i have tried a system made by Rich. It costs less than $30 and works with three or four of i Coho a current cameras a r the advantage of a radio frequency controlled Remote is that it in t necessary for the user to have a line of sight to the camera As is needed with infrared remotes. The radio signal can go around Corners and even through some Quot a we amp to do you know about the a store name film who use the Board on a regular basis actually meet face to face. A everybody is afraid of anyone they d meet Here a he said Well not every body. Campbell a Bachelor says he has made several dates with women he met electronically. And even More frequent than the dates Are the women who confess they arc secret members of the playhouse a a in la be at a parly and a housewife will come up and whisper in my car now done to Tell anyone but in a so and so the name she uses on the Board on the playhouse. A the whip and Chain gang at the playhouse does no to have a Patent on pain. At another Board in Atlanta the flagship members recently had a prolonged spirited and irreverent conversation on the theme a a what a the worst pain you be Ever been in a. Users went into joyous detail comparing the relative pain caused by broken Collarbone kidney stones and car wrecks. Debbie Harvey who runs the flagship says she is one of the few female Board operators. A and that s a shame because women arc very creative and i think it shows in the boards they run a she said. A a lot of Guys a not All of them a Tike to spend their time talking about technical Harvey 33, believes communicating by computer May be the Best cure for such Boring and to Dious talk. A the male population is taught not to talk about what you feel a she said. A girls have always been More articulate about their feelings a she believes men find that it s easier to communicate their feelings on a bulletin Board. That May be because everyone looks alike a the ugly and the handsome have equal glows on the phosphorus of the screen. _ a there Are a lot of people who think they re ugly think they re stupid a she said. A and they like to hide behind the a a i am told that most store brands Are made by the 3m co. They make not Only the film for supermarkets and drugstores but also for k Mart and other specially stores l have used a lot of this kind of film and found it very keyboard doubles As teacher fat he Miracle piano teaching sys a tem which combines a 49-key i electronic piano keyboard and Al special software for the Winten. Do entertainment system computer is one Nintendo product that has the potential to capture the imagination of parents and teachers As Well As Young people the instrument would be impressive simply As an electronic keyboard which can be used with or without a computer it is similar in Price but Superior to Low end keyboards. Made by Yamaha Casio and others. The real value of the Miracle however is in its software which teaches the user How to play the piano and read music through a scrips of on screen tutorials video games and computer generated tunes. It actually trains the user How to play it. Because of limited supplies the Miracle is for Sale Only in a few big cities. A spokes Man for software too works inc., which developed and built the system said it would be available nationwide next month. December 9,1990 sunday to plus c Page 15
