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slimpi66y · 08-02-2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by saltfish
I used to desolder/resolder pins old Packard Bell motherboards to change the hardware interrupts...

I used to run a single node 2400bps BBS from my basement!

I used to use Archie.

I remember using Chello to dial into the local university's slip/ppp connection (hacked pw) and use the Beta version of Yahoo on the akebono.stanford.edu server.

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maybe I am as old as I think

my first modem was 9600bps

my first printer took 16 mins to print one page

I was a tester of Visual Basic

Bill Gates was 29 when we met at the University of Waterloo

I remember using gropher, the original Netscape Navigator,

I remember the excitement of getting on a 80286 machine with a phone line connected to it,

I remember the main server at the school computer lab has a monsterous 400mb HD on it
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-SF