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Fluxxdog wrote:
> "William Rendfeld" <WARendfeld@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1120442165.035514.236010@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>Chet Weaver, Live Via Google wrote:
>>>How do I get a signature on this thing?
>>
>>Don't think you can. Not sure, though.
>
> Sure you can! You can do it like we did in the old days! Type it out!
> Back then, we didn't have automatic .sigs, we had to type each one by hand.
Some of us still do.
> You youngsters take things for granted. Why, back in my day, we only had a
> 600 baud upload... both ways!
Ha! You had 600? I remember 300! And it was one way! Had ta signal
if ya wanned ta switch from uploadin' to downloadin' or vica versa - and
'cause it only WAS one way, yas had ta stop and wait every so often an'
see if the other side had somethin' ta say. That made it even slower.
--
An' anudder t'ing, I remember when ya had to dial inta tha same BBS
everyone else was usin', and hope the lines weren't full up. And that
it hadn't been raided. Ayup, I remember back when the government was
so clueless, it thought game companies were terrorists. What was the
case name? US Secret Service vs. Steve Jackson Games, or somethin'?
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