# Groups: Octothorpe Productions

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 Textfile
F |  |
allworks.bbs | 6656 | An Overview of the Works BBS by Jason Scott (July 16, 1986)
anything.phk | 5248 | How to Connect Anything to Anything, by The Slipped Disk
blood! | 9609 | The Final Blood, from Octothorpe Productions
bookjob.oct | 10240 | The Unauthorized Summary of the Book of Job (Some Corruption)
cfh.oct | 21295 | Comments From Hell, from The Works
comic.oct | 3581 | "Stage Comic", a Story by The Cruiser of Octothorpe Productions (August 16, 1987)
extentio.oct | 1136 | The Works Sacred Extention List
gabriel.oct | 2157 | "Textfiles", to the tune of "Big Time"
gargband.oct | 1162 | The Making of A Garage Band by The Cruiser, Mad Dog, and Jason Scott (Incomplete)
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
pezscan.phk | 5784 | Red Menace and Mephisto Madware Textfile Systems Present The DEFINITIVE Exchange Scan by Mr. Pez
ramble10.txt | 7826 | Mr. Pez' Ramblings #10
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.
ramble7.fun | 8554 | Mr. Pez' Ramblings #7
ramble8.fun | 12882 | Mr. Pez' Ramblings #8
ramble9.txt | 9344 | Mr. Pez' Ramblings #9
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
rfp1.hum | 13027 | The Radiology Fun Pages (RFP) Issue #1 by Abby Hoffman and The Dissident, Transcribed by Mr. Pez
rfp2.fun | 7201 | More Radiological Funnies
rock.txt | 8246 | The First Orbicle Church of Rock N' Roll, by The Cruiser of Octothorpe Productions
sciwords.oct | 2176 | Physics Terms Made Easy by The Mathematician of Octothorpe Productions (December 5, 1986)
sentit.txt | 1196 | The Slipped Disk Answers the Trivia Question and Blabs for a Paragraph
shoe.hum | 1612 | A Day in the Life of a Shoe Salesman, by The Mathematician (September 29, 1987)
shopanar.ana | 7546 | Anarchy In Your Local Supermarket, by The Slipped Disk and The Outland
sphere.oct | 4591 | The Sphere's Warning, a Story by The Cruiser of Octothorpe Productions (August 14, 1987)
stopit.hum | 4080 | Stop It! A Story by Mr. Pez
surfskat.fun | 822 | Surf Ohio, by Michael Stutz
telecomu.oct | 21691 | Miscellaneous Techniques for the Telecommunications Hobbyist by The Cruiser of Octothorpe Productions
trader.oct | 25011 | "The Traitor" by The Cruiser of Octothorpe Productions (August 8, 1987)
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!
vmref.oct | 6143 | VM: The IBM Vierual Machine System, by The Wiz Kid of Octothorpe Productions
weerdfon.oct | 13884 | A Weird Phone Story
wendell.hum | 11264 | Phido Phreaks and Octothorpe Productions Presents The Saga of Wendell Timmerman
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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