Subj : CMDTIME
To   : Robert Bull
From : Bob Ackley
Date : Sun Jul 27 2003 09:19 pm

Replying to a message of Robert Bull to Bob Ackley:

 RB> Hello, Bob;

 RB> 23 Jun 03 01:05, Bob Ackley wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>>> Fledgling - _I_ started with a 1200/75 modem  :-))

 BA>> Hmph. a new guy.<g>  I still have my Hayes 300 bps Smartmodem.  I
 BA>> *upgraded* to 1200 bps back around 1983 (memory fades). and to 2400
 BA>> bps in the late 1980s.

 RB> Apologies for long-delayed reply, I've been away, and summer is always 
 RB> busy.

 RB> Oops  :-))  Yes, I only started in about 1988.  Never had to struggle
 RB> with  one of those acoustic couplers, either.

I did, but it wasn't mine.  Back around 1982 one of the local colleges set up a 
'computer lab' in the base education center.  Three Apple II's w/acoustic 
couplers to the computer on campus.

That is long gone, and the local community college has a complete lab there 
now, part of the college's WAN - which encompasses a pretty good chunk of 
eastern Nebraska, IIRC there are five campuses.

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