[Coco] Compuserve archives

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From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
> It looks like my idea of writing a script that would add the old 
> Compuserve CoCo message areas to the coco3.com forums is going to 
> take too much time I need for other projects.
> 
> I'm probably going to hire a freelance programmer on a coder site I'm 
> a member of.  This means I would post my job, give a maximum 
> acceptable bid, and then sit back for (x) number of days waiting for 
> the bids to come in.  In this case, a PHP/MySQL/phpBB expert will be 
> needed.  On the coder site I'm a member of, there's lots of these 
> guys usually bidding real low to win, but I'm going to also consider 
> skill and proof of other jobs.
> 
> Before I go ahead with this, if there's anyone reading who believes 
> they can do this project, reply with your fee and the number of days 
> it will take.
> 
> Project: you'll take raw ASCII text files containing message headers 
> and content from the Compuserve forum archives, and insert each 
> thread and message into the appropriate subforum/category in a 
> PHP-Nuke forum system (like phpBB).  All topics will be Closed.  All 
> details need to be retained like the date posted, the author, the 
> time, the message being replied to, etc.

Can you offer a megabyte or so of the data as you have it so we can look over the details involved?  Been a long time (1991) since I looked at CompuServe forum message data, but I do recall it was fairly consistent from 1980 to then, as I used to reformat captured data with Mod 2 Scripsit user keys (macros with no judgement) for megabytes on end prior to printing them.  (Mostly LDOS and Tangent forum data I wanted to keep but of course no longer have, "Three removes equal one fire" and all that).
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