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F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 7/30/13 8:44 AM, Gogarty wrote: In article , says... (Snip) I was on CIS and for a while on another similar provider, the name of which I don't recall...wait a minute, was it The Source? I am proud that I never tried AOL.  It was The Source. Thanks for jolting my memory. Never did AOL or Compuserve. My equipment was all Radio Shack -- TRS80 and TRS100 laptop. That was a really usefful machine. Ran on AA batteries, used acoustic cups with modem. We were early computerized travellers. Really started witha huge IBM word processor in 1970. Ahh, the Trash80. Lots of my friends had that one. They all called it their Trash80. My first "computer" was an IBM MT/ST. It wasn't mine, actually, but when I worked at the teachers union, my secretary was the "operator." It was a large, clunky memory typewriter that used selectric like type balls. I had to run it on occasion on weekends to produce crap for board meetings. It was just awful. I learned Basic programming with my first PC, an IBM PC. Very frustrating at first because just about everything I input came back with "syntax error" errors. Cursed a lot...as a guy with two degrees in English, I did not make "syntax errors," but of course these were syntax errors of a completely different variety. I had a freebie account at The Source because a friend had the company as an advertising and PR account and he had "freebie" accounts to give out. Two degrees? The BS continues. |
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