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![]() Eisboch wrote: I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Man...GeoWorks.....THAT brings back memories! It was the first graphical interface I used. I was anti-windows, because anything graphical like that slowed my computer down too much. Besides that, most programs at that time were still DOS based. Oh, I had prodigy, also! I remember a guy I was going to school with bought a 386 that ran at 20Mhz. I thought he was the cat's ass with that thing... I was SO jealous! Oh, and remember, to get any real speed out of them, you had to add a math coprocesser!! |
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