*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Oh it was a trip.  Dial the number, listen, catch moem tone, drop
 CS>  it in the handset.

MK> Ah!  I've seen those in movies or TV shows.  Never ran across one in r
MK> life unless you count telex machines, which were simular ... I think.

Archival stuff now ;-)

 CS> mainframe things.

MK> You defenitely have the advantage there.  I didn't do any admin things
MK> the Sparcs, and even there I tried to avoid user stuff other then how
MK> influenced my particular account.  The only reason I had root access w
MK> hardware issues, mostly tape and disk drives.  That was my contributio
MK> the network.

I was the admin, but they had other guys above me who made lots more money,
who ¨were there too.  I was the mere SysOp ;-)  Users of course were lower
than me!


 CS> I didnt run into BBS stuff til 1986 or so, years later.

MK> My first experience was quite a bit later then that.  Perhaps 89-ish o
MK> very early 90's at the latest.  My first BBS was on the 386 with the 2
MK> baud modem but I was the only user.  I used it to move data around due
MK> the lack of any networking programs at the time.  I started writing so
MK> DOS but then Linux came along and saved me the trouble.  :-) 

Ah I had a BBS by 1987 but didnt go Fido til 1988 or 89 or so.

                                       xxcarol

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