Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/29/07 21:05

In article <45ae2b14$1_2@newsfeed.slurp.net>, Bill's News
<BillsNews@pcmagic.net> wrote:

>AnthonyR wrote:

>> "Gene E. Bloch" <hamburger@NOT_SPAM.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:Xns98BAA7471EA51Astrolabe@127.0.0.1...


[bunches deltete - wjv]

>>> IIRC, before around 1985, people tended to top post. It makes
>>> reading a thread much easier when you are stuck with a s-l-o-w
>>> text- mode newsreader on a s-l-o-w connection - which is
>>> pretty much all there was back then.

>>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) ... letters617blochg3251
>>> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")


>> Once again, Thanks. I didn't know that, but makes sense as dial
>> up systems were really slow back then. I remember my first
>> 300 baud modem, yikes! And it followed Moore's Law, (thanks
>> Martin), 600, then 1200, 2400, 5600 all the way to 56k. And
>> prices kept dropping also, so we kept buying them every 6
>> months! :)

>> AnthonyR.

>It would have been miraculous to top post on a teletype!!
>And that is where this mind set is stuck!

Which brought to mind a University for whom where I did some outside
work had a Burroughs/Unisys system.

When they used their terminals evertime they hit a CR to add a new
line the screen scrolled down so the last thing you typed
was always the top line on the screen. That was really bizarre
for anyone used to reading anything - books - papers - the 'net -
from top to bottom.

Bill

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