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Posted by Andrew on 08/11/06 22:34
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:16:26 +0930, jmc
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>ooh! ooh! Can I play?
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>I remember connecting to bbses. I can't remember why but think I was
>looking for software...
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>The first computer I ever owned was a Commodore Vic20. With a "tape"
>drive. I was poor, so used 30-minute audio tapes for data storage.
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>Through some weird set of circumstances after I graduated, my Vic20
>ended up in my college's "computer museum", where I saw it in the late
>90s. Still had the "peek" and "poke" numbers I'd taped on it way back
>when (1980 or thereabouts).
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>And, I was almost right, I remembered it as "The Ultimate Collection Of
>Windows Software"
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>jmc
Hi JMC,
I have very fond memories of bbses. I use a mail reading program
called Blue Wave from memory. The messages took several days to
percolate around the world from Australia.
And the sysops of the bbs would put CD-ROMs on the bbs to browse. The
came the Internet and all the bbses died...
Andrew
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