-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my >> crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn. > > Yeah, when you were a student, you did the same thing with a carrier > pidgeon, carrying a role of punched paper tape. :) Or was it morse code > over the prof's car radio?
Nah. I made friends with a guy who had an Apple ][ and a SmartModem 300. Once we convinced the teacher, we were able to dial into their ansync modems and use a really cruddy host-based line-oriented text editor to enter in FORTRAN IV code. Kept us away from the keypunch machines. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+YSsS9HxQb37XmcRAq8hAJ4plGRMF2h9J7kg5rVw20RaOg8PbACfca3V uX9D2s9/RiTM08Ne97LCoKw= =+BaP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]