oncebitten
Fri Jan 09 13:27:10 CST 2004
Lnkwizard wrote:
> I was just trying to be careful. Yours is the first group I have
> ever posted to and I realize that there many things that I do not
> understand about newgroups and posting to them. I would rather not
> offend or act like a complete newbie so I might be a "tad" sensitive
> towards doing the wrong thing. I am being honest in saying I enjoy
> the banter and wit that seems to flow here. It is not often I get to
> "watch" and "talk to" a group of highly intelligent people as they
> socialize.
Wow... we're highly intelligent people! :-) thanks.
> On a side note the LnkWizard comes from the early days of the home
> PC, I was a member of PC Link and actually used a 300 baud modem to
> connect and chat with other people. I've liked the username and have
> kept it since then.
A fellow dinosaur! See, we're not extinct yet.
My first modem was a Cermetek 1200 baud. I held out on the 300 bauds
because I saw the 1200 baud being demonstrated at a PC user's group meeting
back when I lived in Silicon Valley. It was unreal to see two computers
side-by-side, one with a 300 baud modem, and one with the BLAZING FAST 1200
baud, both connected to BBS systems, and of course the 1200 one displaying
screens FOUR TIMES AS FAST!
I had to buy one. They were only asking $100 when the Hayes 1200 was going
for nearly $500. I also grabbed a 20 MB hard drive about a year later for
$500 when they were going for well over $1,000.
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