On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:19:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my > >> crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn. > > > > Yeah, when you were a student, you did the same thing with a carrier > > pidgeon, carrying a role of punched paper tape. :) Or was it morse code > > over the prof's car radio? > > Nah. I made friends with a guy who had an Apple ][ and a SmartModem > 300. I remember upgrading my C-64's 300 baud modem to a 1200baud one. That was so cool. No more typing faster than the modem... I used to "chat" with my friends using terminal programs we'd written ourselves complete with xmodem protocol all written in c-64 basic. (I even had a rudimentary scripting language built-in to mine to allow scripting the handshake/login procedures at various bulletin boards. ) I don't know why we didn't just call each other. It would have been so much easier... geeks. A
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