Subj : Re: Technology
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : NANCY BACKUS
Date : Wed Apr 01 2020 14:52:00

-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 03-26-20  05:50 <=-

 MB>> I think that we may have got the modem with the machine,

 JM> Mine was a hand me down I got free when the first owner got a
 JM> blazingly fast 1200. 

I think that was what our first one was... been a long time now.... ;)

 JM> I still have a 56k.  Saw it one day when I was rooting around the
 JM> closet for something else.  

That may be what we use when we use our backup dial-up ISP when the DSL
isn't working.... 

 JM> That's how I usually find things, when I'm looking for something
 JM> else. 

Well, of course.... ;)  If you were looking for it, it would dutifully
hide in the back.... <G>

 NB>> pointed out to me the genealogy echoes and files on a couple of the
 NB>> bbs's 

 JM> We had one time about a dozen or so boards.  Some better than
 JM> others.  Some were games, some were echoes others a combination. 
 JM> I usually hit about five of them since one would have something the
 JM> others didn't.

We had dozens of boards locally here, at one time.... there were over a
dozen that I was monitoring to see how their genealogy offerings
compared to each other... some had good files, some were set up to be
able to do a good job with the GENEALOGY echo and not lose messages (and
others were totally deficient there)... Back then, there were often 500
or messages a DAY in that echo....  I was a regular on maybe half a
dozen of the local bbses, doing echos and the occasional game, mostly
Scrabble and KOTB and some trivia types of games.... 

Not all that different now, except that none of the bbses I visit are
local anymore, they're all accessed by telnet so can be anywhere in the
world... And GENEALOGY is long gone, and I'm following MEMORIES,
COOKING, and a few others now....  Still play Scrabble on a few
boards.... I call five regularly, now...  :)

One benefit of following more than one board is that one can check
propagation... make sure that messages actually do leave the bbs of
origin and make it to other bbses... :)  And gives a backup for when a
regular board might be temporarily down....

ttyl         neb

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