Posted by SFTVratings on 02/03/07 10:57

Low Life #3 wrote:
> "SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1170413859.944019.35140@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
> : (2) I've been posting on Usenet since 1988 (back when computers were
> : only a few kilobytes worth of RAM). I don't need some Newbie like you
> : telling me what I can or can not do.
>
> got you beat by two years... 1986 email and USENET access via a dumb
> terminal connected to a DEC mainframe, back-bone site on the old ARPANET.
> UNIX system and posted using the vi text editor. Fewer wankers in those
> days.


Cool. I had a computer in 1986 (commodore=128), but no modem, no
printer.. My parents made me buy one piece at a time, so in 1985 was
the computer. 1986 was the disk drive. 1987 was the printer. The
modem finally arrived in 1988.

In retrospect, I wish I had bought the modem *first* since that would
have been the most-useful piece of the "puzzle".

;-)

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