Re: Re: Banana Ketchup
  By: Mike Powell to BEN COLLVER on Thu Feb 08 2024 08:46 am

 > > I listened to a piece about Arabic immigrants who worked for oil drilling
 > > efforts off the coast of South America decades ago, i forget whether it
 > > was in the 80's or 90's.  International phone calls were prohibitively
 > > expensive, so they would record a cassette tape full of audio and send it
 > > back home to their family.  Their families would respond in kind with
 > > messages from multiple people on the same tape.
 > 
 > > My family did that with me when i went off to college.  I wish i had
 > > held on to those tapes!  I had multiple weather-related data loss
 > > incidents in my youth.
 > 
 > That is pretty neat, especially when you consider that email was not really
 > a public thing back then.  Sort of an early form of audio-conferencing. :)
 > 
 > Mike
 > 
 > 
 >  * SLMR 2.1a * On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Don sent me tapes when I was on the Fort Mchenry.  It was easier for him and
calls home could only happen in port somewhere.

xxcarol
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