Apparently the passwords were hashed [...]

I'm not sure that's quite true across the board. According to a blog comment here by Simon Anderson (dreamhost CEO):

Zachary:- some more detail - our systems have stored and used encrypted passwords for a number of years, however the hacker found a legacy pool of unencrypted FTP/shell passwords in a database table that we had not previously deleted. We've now confirmed that there are no more legacy unencrypted passwords in our systems. And we're investigating further measures to ensure security of passwords including when a customer requests their password by email (this was not the issue here, though). Re your shell accounts, I'd suggest that you select a new password just to be sure.

I agree, strikes me as shameless self-promotion in a target-rich environment... Downloading as I type this...

Is anyone here really comfortable with Amazon in the role of policeman? Hmm?

It's really reads "All your base are belong to U.S.".

If it used to be a BBS system, it will probably have software for one of xmodem, ymodem or zmodem file transfers. You should be able to use rzsz on Linux to transfer files

They are mostly aspartame based glass these days, I think.

Youtube clip here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ir_n3J5ABA