you just reminded me of a childhood event. When I was 15, two of my friends
and I carried a Snark sailboat 5 miles to a Lake. The walk wasn't the hard
part, it was our forearms that ached from holding the boat. We rigged it,
set it in the water, got in, and the wind immediately bent the aluminum mast
in half. Bummer.
Scout.

"katysails" wrote in message
...

Thor Heyerdahl would laugh even harder at both of
us!
Scout

Ah, good old Thor...he died a while back....I read all his books when I
was
a kid and he inspired us to make the telephone pole sailing barge that
took
3 days to sink....
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On 23 Jul 2004 12:23:06 -0500, Dave wrote this
crap:

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:28:21 GMT, "Scout" said:

My first connection was just 1200 bps (bulletin boards).

Ah, such a child. My first was at the then state of the art speed of 300.


The first time I connected to the internet with my OWN computer, was a
Commodore VIC-20, at 300 baud.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:09:47 -0400, "Jeff Morris"
wrote this crap:

"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:28:21 GMT, "Scout" said:

My first connection was just 1200 bps (bulletin boards).

Ah, such a child. My first was at the then state of the art speed of 300.


You had one of them new fangled gadgets - my first was 134.5 baud. Later I was
downgraded to 110.


I had to translate from binary meself, at about 4 baud.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:53:23 -0400, "katysails"
wrote this crap:

I remember not even having a computer and using an IBM Selectric to write
mail for the snail to deliver. at - .00015 baud....


Lucky *******. I couldn't afford such technology. I had to use
something called a pencil, or if I could afford it, I bought ink for
my quill.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

"Horvath" wrote

I remember not even having a computer and using an IBM Selectric to write
mail for the snail to deliver. at - .00015 baud....


Lucky *******. I couldn't afford such technology. I had to use
something called a pencil, or if I could afford it, I bought ink for
my quill.

Oh brother. I had to use a Mastodon bone on a cave wall. There, that should
end this thread.

SV

you had a cave?
Scout

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...
"Horvath" wrote

I remember not even having a computer and using an IBM Selectric to
write
mail for the snail to deliver. at - .00015 baud....


Lucky *******. I couldn't afford such technology. I had to use
something called a pencil, or if I could afford it, I bought ink for
my quill.

Oh brother. I had to use a Mastodon bone on a cave wall. There, that
should
end this thread.

SV

Scout,

Old Josh would scoff at anything with an electrical power supply. We
forget, in our new world of information, that in Josh's world the dry
cell battery was a pure PITA.

Katy talks about no computer and using a IBM electric and snail mail. I
remember sending out the monthly bill payments by check, envelope and
three cent stamps. All for a cost of less than 50 cents!

We've come a long way but we do pay a terrible monetry price.

What we accept as normal today would definitely be scoff at by past
generations.
I'm not sure scoff is the right word. Pity comes to mind,

Ole Thom

What's a cave?

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"Scout" wrote in message
...
you had a cave?
Scout

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
...
"Horvath" wrote

I remember not even having a computer and using an IBM Selectric to
write
mail for the snail to deliver. at - .00015 baud....


Lucky *******. I couldn't afford such technology. I had to use
something called a pencil, or if I could afford it, I bought ink for
my quill.

Oh brother. I had to use a Mastodon bone on a cave wall. There, that
should
end this thread.

SV

I had to translate from binary meself, at about 4 baud.

Translation: Horass was pretty stupid.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!

Well that figures.

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"Horvath" wrote in message
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On 23 Jul 2004 12:23:06 -0500, Dave wrote this
crap:

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:28:21 GMT, "Scout" said:

My first connection was just 1200 bps (bulletin boards).

Ah, such a child. My first was at the then state of the art speed of 300.


The first time I connected to the internet with my OWN computer, was a
Commodore VIC-20, at 300 baud.





Pathetic Earthlings! No one can save you now!