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vfjmclachlan #182084 01/27/09 05:36 PM
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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.


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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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Originally Posted By: PastorVon
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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Originally Posted By: PastorVon
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.


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Faldage #182405 02/04/09 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted By: PastorVon
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.

laugh My first modem was a 300 baud, connected to my trusty old Amiga 500.

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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.


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that's nothin'.. I had a 37-baud installed in our two-holer.
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that's nothin'.. I had a 37-baud installed in our two-holer.

Luxury!


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