Text 34571, 88 rader
Skriven 2006-07-25 15:57:54 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 34524 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Where where you when the Towers came down?
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25 Jul 06 19:17, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

 CS> *** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS>> normally mean Carol Bryant (I'd be XX or xxcarol to keep things
 CS>> sane).  If i didnt always sign as 'xxcarol' they'd probably call me
 CS>> 'Japan Carol'.

 RW>> And all this time I thought you were signing off with double
 RW>> kisses...

 CS> Grin, the name has been asked about a few times.  Here's the real
 CS> truth of it, as told many times but you wouldnt know because you've
 CS> never asked.

 CS> Back when I came in to the military, we predated such real 'internet'
 CS> as folks have now.  PC's didnt exist and only a few people had
 CS> computers at home and no one knew what would grow later.  For the
 CS> mass majority, 'computers' had 'vacumn tubes and lots of flashing
 CS> lights' like old 1950's SCI-FI movies.

Jeeez...you must have joined in the mid-70s then. I had a computer of my
own by 79 and worked with them at Cubic Corp until 78, when I moved on.

 CS> Real SYSOPS ran mainframes.

Or, at least had access to them.

 CS> There was no Fidonet.  ARPANET existed though and had changed names
 CS> and had 'secured itself' from the university mainframes withonly
 CS> touch points left.  There were no virii.  Hacker was a good term for
 CS> one who checked out programs to find the flaws and helped people fix
 CS> the problems.  Set the scene well enough?

Yeup...Im familiar with the old school technology. :o)

 CS> Us Sysops chatted at night during the deadtime on the mainframes with
 CS> one another.  Because the total line sent could be only 60
 CS> characters, and it was hard to tell the sending site, we added by
 CS> convention our initials to the end.

Just think, if you thought about it, you could have invented the FTN
address that was non-existant at the time.

 CS> Normally that would be enough but there was another on the 'world
 CS> wide ARANET outgrowth version' named Charlie Parker.  I was Carol
 CS> Pape.  So, we monikered me xx (female genetics as xx chromosomes).
 CS> There was a later fellow who became 'xy' as he had a simular problem.
 CS> There were so few of us, that this was enough.  It simply saved
 CS> character space.

See, I wouldn't have that problem with my first name. There was Roy T
something here in Fidonet, but I don't recall any others in all these
years.

 CS> Years later, I joined Fidonet and added the xx to Carol to be xxcarol
 CS> and the few of us who had joined this new thing, would find each
 CS> other that way (known initials).  That obviously didnt work by 1990
 CS> but it became my moniker.

 CS> I think it was 1991 before anyone pointed out to me it might be
 CS> looking like a 'kiss' and I was literally confused, but after a few
 CS> moments i realized, 'yeah, sure looks like that dont it?'.  I knew so
 CS> well it was my old 'sig' enchanced due to not being so limited in
 CS> characters that it had simply not occured to me what it looked like.

I think I had mentioned it to you once or twice before.

 CS> Chuckle, I dont mind if people think I'm tossing kisses.  I've known
 CS> for 16 years now that some think this.  But the origin of the 'xx' is
 CS> totally to clarify me and Charlie Parker, added later to be xxcarol
 CS> so the rest would know it was me and the Military network folks now
 CS> gone from that small group.

Yeah, but you'll never get lost, no matter where you go if you continue to
use that sig.

 CS> It serves now to make a nice way to say 'hello' and deal with the
 CS> rare other 'carol' out there.  If guys think I'm blowing them a kiss,
 CS> well maybe sometimes i am as well!  ;-)

I saw your photo on a web site the other day (you know which one) and if I
were available, you could throw me a kiss anytime.


Roy
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