13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
11:35 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
One thing about this group regardless of age or talent
we all got into
computers
because I think we all wanted to try the 'new' techology for ourselves
rather than
let some-body else do computer hardware/software for us.
I was just saying something along the same lines to a colleage the other day
about using BBSes heavily in the 1980s -- it took actual brainpower to know
what hardware to buy, set up a machine with the right software and settings to
dial a BBS, and then communication intelligently with others there. You simply
couldn't be an utter technological moron and get online, so I found great
solace in BBSing. Believe me, there were about 5 people at my high school who
knew as much or more about computing as I did, and I already knew them all :)
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
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