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This is just a test post. I had quite the time setting up an account! Before I realized the theme, I actually googled "Via gra". hahah.
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We always welcome a sparkling conversationalist. PS I love Degas.
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Welcome and please contribute more, as said above, we enjoy sparkling conversationalists.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I've been around computers since half-speed card sorters, tape punching typewriter/printers and hard-wired bread boards and I'm still a neophyte.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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I've been around computers since half-speed card sorters, tape punching typewriter/printers and hard-wired bread boards and I'm still a neophyte. Ah, the good old days, when 300 baud was fast (1200 baud was lightning-fast) and you could tell what turnaround time would be like by looking at the flashing lights on the mainframe computer down in the computer room.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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I've been around computers since half-speed card sorters, tape punching typewriter/printers and hard-wired bread boards and I'm still a neophyte. In the Smithsonian in DC they have one of these preserved, last used, I believe, to predict the election of President Nixon. I remember computer companies giving us the used cards in school to be used for art projects, etc.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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old hand
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I've been around computers since half-speed card sorters, tape punching typewriter/printers and hard-wired bread boards and I'm still a neophyte. Ah, the good old days, when 300 baud was fast (1200 baud was lightning-fast) and you could tell what turnaround time would be like by looking at the flashing lights on the mainframe computer down in the computer room. My first modem was a 300 baud, connected to my trusty old Amiga 500.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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My first modem was a 300 baud
Since we're all dating ourselves: though the first modem I owned was a 300 baud Hayes for my trusty old Apple ][+, the first one I used was a 100 baud, acoustic coupled one back in the late '70s to connect to a UNIX host from the linguistics department's office at Cal.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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that's nothin'.. I had a 37-baud installed in our two-holer. -ron o.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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that's nothin'.. I had a 37-baud installed in our two-holer.Luxury!
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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