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originally posted by: abe froman
a reply to: reldra
No joke, cassette tapes were like disk drives back in the day.
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originally posted by: Gothmog
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Gothmog
But , we had BBS servers that served the same purpose (yes even conspiracy sites) long before that . Since we had very narrow local call ranges , anyone here remember how we got around the tremendous long distance charges for downloading that 2k file ?
S&F for the memories..
Fido echo
Here is one for ya The Temple of The Screaming Electron out of San Fran...
You betcha. And a friend and I ran a conspiracy site Wildcat BBS setting on Apache server before 90 .
originally posted by: reldra
Later, more than one D&D novel had the name reldra as a minor character. I posted that on a modern TSR website. I could have sued. I didn't.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Here's a trivia / memories question for you all...
Who remembers using WYSIWYG?
To me, the first time I saw WYSIWYG was the first time I realized PC's were here to stay.
originally posted by: thedigirati
yes and Modem strings, getting so good at modem setup I could Hear if a connection would be good or not. .