Text 34692, 82 rader
Skriven 2006-07-26 12:26:17 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 34636 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Where where you when the Towers came down?
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26 Jul 06 19:49, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

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

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

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

 CS> Naw. 1983.  There were computers by then, but nothing but hobby
 CS> systems with something like 8k.  CPM.

Mine was pre-CPM...A TI-994A with 32k and a floppy drive. I still have the
300 baud modem that I used to connect with BBS's in San Diego. It's like
new and I hate to throw it out. :o)

 CS> Had to fix the CPM system used at SSC San Diego in 1989 and it was
 CS> hard to remember that stuff by then.  Limited use machine, nit
 CS> networked.

When we moved from Poway to Mira Mesa in 87, I found all kinds of CPM
machines in the garage of the house we moved to. Tossed it all in the
trash. If you did that today, the city would be on you like stink on fish.
You're supposed to recycle all of that stuff now.

 CS>> Real SYSOPS ran mainframes.

 RW>> Or, at least had access to them.

 CS> No, people with access were users.  Plain and simple.

That was me...

 CS>> Us Sysops chatted at night during the deadtime on the mainframes
 CS>> with 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.

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

 CS> The Navy for a bit, had that going <G>. It was more easy for the
 CS> dialup users from home. Gosh, hadnt thought about that for years.  It
 CS> didnt last long but was called 'SALTS' (off telix script).  Theres
 CS> still a system with the same name but it's no longer remotely
 CS> related.

See...

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

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

 CS> Maybe.  Did I ever explain it though?  I've not done so in 5 years at
 CS> the least, probably 8 to 10.

Not as extensively as you did the other day...

 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
 CS>> kiss, well maybe sometimes i am as well!  ;-)

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

 CS> Smile, love you too! sndme pics!
 CS>                                        xxcarol

Sure. I'll have to find that email address first.


Roy
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