On 28-Dec-04, Frank Reichert wrote: FR> So, you are "Shadow"! Up until just now, I believed that FR> 'Shadow' was Daniel Frackwell out of southern Idaho, and have FR> made the blunder unknowingly of addressing you as "Daniel" or FR> "Dan".
FR> That's what happens when you don't sign your own posts using your FR> own name. Well, I did, on several occasions... you must have been tired, another old FidoNet habit, late-night postings. :) FR> Then, I finally got around to upgrading from the XT level to a FR> 386 machine and buying a dynamite modem that could receive and FR> transmit at 14,000 baud's per second! WOW! I believed at THAT time, FR> that technology couldn't get much better than this. ... Same here. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! FR> ... The XT machine I bought had no hard drive at all, as I mentioned FR> above, ... I was pretty sure the original IBM PC came with no hard drive, and maybe 64k of RAM. Wasn't sure about the XT. Today there are people who believe that IBM *invented* the desktop computer. s>> Remember Rodger from the CDC in Atlanta? What a character! As was John s>> King. FR> Yes. And THAT is very interesting. Roger seemed to vanish FR> suddenly. Dave later told me he had medical problems. Roger came FR> back about a year later to disappear again, and I haven't heard FR> from him since.... Last I remember, Roger was on the verge of retiring, or was asked to retire. FR> ... John King was extremely different. FR> John and I were entirely adversarial for a good many years.... All that JK and I agreed upon was the necessity of rich cigars and fine jazz, and that was more than enough for me. His tales of pub-crawling from jazz club to jazz club left me green with envy. FR> I'll never forget one of my first visits at John's home. He FR> introduced me to the 'room where it all happened', the FR> conversations in cyber space in those early years. Yes, the same FR> XT machine with dual floppy 360 megs of storage space apiece,... I'm sure you meant 360 kilobytes on those floppies, the big 5 1/4" dudes, right? When my co-op bought its first computer, (a North Star, formerly Kentucky Fried Computers) they took my advice to use the CPM operating system and sprung for the 5 meg hard drive. That puppy sat inside a case the size of a portable typewriter, but it held as much data as 50+ of the old floppies that held 90k each. That was high flyin' in them days. If only our bodies improved over time like our toys do..... _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
