-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 01-08-08  10:34 <=-

 > ISTR that some of my packets back then took MORE than 30 minutes, too...
 > GENEALOGY often packed upwards of 500 messages... :)

 MR> YOu always were a night owl. I do reemember there were times, I
 MR> honestly do. When I'd see You log on and I'd go do something that took
 MR> awhile and come back and dsz was still up in the little window working
 MR> away almost an hour later. If You think that was bad though, I remember
 MR> during the file days, users went to bed in batch mode and got up and
 MR> their machines were still downloading from my system. 8-)

 MR> How does that song go? That was then this is now.

And a good thing that is, too...  :)   There is indeed a lot to be said
for faster computers, faster modems, and all that...  as well as for the
tried-and-true programs that made things possible back then, and still
make things easier today...  Like, of course, our beloved BW... 

ttyl       neb

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