Subj : Re: Technology To : NANCY BACKUS From : JOE MACKEY Date : Thu Mar 19 2020 05:38:12 Nancy wrote -- > my sister lent me time on their home computer to type up minutes for an organization Word processing was the main reason I got my Commie c. 1985. I didn't even have a modem for several years so it was just a gloried typewriter. (Or as some other students in J school called my writing, a "tripe writer"). :) I got my first modem only after learning about local BBS' around 1989. The idea of a world wide web wasn't even on my radar. That came about around 1994/95. Ah, the old days when everything was in text or low res graphics. Joe --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .