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echo: memories
to: Daryl Stout
from: George Pope
date: 2022-01-09 16:58:00
subject: Re: Old PC`s

>> Which Windows was your intro?
> I used 3.1, then went to 95, 98, XP, 7, 10, and now 11.

I went 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, that horribly slow Windows, Vista(Ugh, don't  ask!), XP, 8.1, 10, & recently 11, even t hough I turned off updates!

Motherlovers!

In between, I tried Windows 2.0 on DOS 3, just to try it, & ran Netscape  0.9beta  on it, on a 300 baud "high speed sysop's external modem"! (for real!)

Went onto AltaVista search engine & a couple BBSes just so they could screencap "that idiot user who called in at 300," & brag about it in sysop echoes!

The standard was 28.8K when I did that with 56.6K really making inroads. . .

I've gone online with QNX (experimental OS that Commodore apparently bought)

QNX was awesome -- I could boot, load my dfevices, & dial up & go on the net 
all from a single floppy disk! (no room for downloads -- they had to go onto  the HDD)

> The way my back is hurting from sitting in this chair (with degenerative
> disk disease), it's hard to sit at the computer for very long anymore.

Ouch. . same. . . my spine is crushing hard one one of my discs.

> ... I watch what I eat...from the plate to the mouth.

My doctor told me to watch my weight, sol I've put it all up front here so it's easier.

Or, "When you've got a plow this good, you build a roof over it to protect it  from the elements" *LOL*

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
                                                                                               
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

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