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echo: memories
to: NANCY BACKUS
from: MIKE POWELL
date: 2019-11-10 09:27:00
subject: Re: Exploring BBSes

> No.... In some ways, he can be as much of a Luddite (in the good senses
> of the word) or more, than I am.... He does do some stuff online, but
> prefers to do most of it offline...  As I said, he refuses to have a
> cell phone... and though he is quite a Wizard with computer stuff, he
> uses DOS and Linux mostly... he has a Windows machine as well, for the
> times that one has to use that, for certain websites... but he always
> downloads his email to read and answer offline, rather than do it
> online... finds it much safer that way.... And he also uses a text
> browser wherever possible on the web.... :)

That sounds like me, except I do have a cell phone.  I am considering going
back to the older style flip phone should my current (not so) smart phone
ever stops working.  I have had it over 5 years now, so it is more durable
than I would have assumed when I got it.

Mike


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