Subj : Re: Technology
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Mar 25 2020 21:41:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-19-20  05:38 <=-

 JM> Nancy wrote --
 
 > my sister lent me time on their home computer to type up minutes for an
 > organization  
 JM> Word processing was the main reason I got my Commie c. 1985.  
 JM> I didn't even have a modem for several years so it was just a
 JM> gloried typewriter.  (Or as some other students in J school called my
 JM> writing, a "tripe writer").  :)

It at least seemed to be a practical use for the machine... ;)

 JM> I got my first modem only after learning about local BBS' around
 JM> 1989.   The idea of a world wide web wasn't even on my radar.  That
 JM> came about around 1994/95.

I think that we may have got the modem with the machine, if not, soon
after... but I'm pretty sure that it was our teenaged son that was the
first usre thereof... and certainly the primary one, at least until he
pointed out to me the genealogy echoes and files on a couple of the
bbs's he regularly went to to play games and hang out in the local
message areas.... Then he had to share....  <G>

 JM> Ah, the old days when everything was in text or low res graphics.

But..... I'm still there... using text and low res graphics.... ;)

ttyl        neb

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