Top-posting shenanigans - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Feb 2005

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:00:13 -0800 (PST)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

...
  On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Michael Sokolov wrote:

  Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:

  Pine
 Is
 Not
 Elm 
 What the hell is all this talk about pine and elm?  I only use
 Mail(1)!  
 Wimp!  On days when I'm sick I communicate directly with the SMTP
 port. Otherwise, I normally whistle bits down the ether!!  This
 message took me 3 hours to submit.

Back when I was a kid and couldn't afford a real computer, sometimes I
would call the dialup number to the timesharing system (1) and whistle
into it.  If you whistled the right way, you could get the other end
warbling and it wouldn't hang up until you ran out of breath from
whistling.

(1) we didn't have any _real_ computers at school, either, just several
ASR33's, a CRT Terminal, a Silent 700, and 'acoustic couplers' to
connect through.

-Scott