Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:19:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/06/08 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my
crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn.

Yeah, when you were a student, you did the same thing with a carrier
pidgeon, carrying a role of punched paper tape. :) Or was it morse code
over the prof's car radio?

Nah. I made friends with a guy who had an Apple ][ and a SmartModem
300.

I remember upgrading my C-64's 300 baud modem to a 1200baud one. That
was so cool. No more typing faster than the modem... I used to "chat"
with my friends using terminal programs we'd written ourselves
complete with xmodem protocol all written in c-64 basic. (I even had a
rudimentary scripting language built-in to mine to allow scripting the
handshake/login procedures at various bulletin boards. ) I don't know
why we didn't just call each other. It would have been so much
easier... geeks.

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