Re: [LOOP] Slimming down the digests

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Okay, GREP this.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mech" <mech@m3ch.net>


> Well, FWIW some of my fondest Internet experiences involve telnetting 
>into 
> the text-only interfaces of Mindvox and The Well.  This is when a 2400 
> baud modem was speedy.  And, the most ironic thing is that through a 
>vt100 
> term, 2400 baud *is* pretty speedy.  Go figure.

I remember that too. Of course, I was working for HP at the time and I was 
able to do that via a T1 connection, but I do remember the text-only, 
command driven interface. Our email program at the time was also 
text-only. 
Things have sure changed. I'm glad. I hated the text-only, command driven 
systems. When it comes to computers, I am a blended learner/user - 
graphics 
+ text.  I need both to keep my interest and motivation up.

>>Better yet, let's become real men and women and get servers in our homes 
>>with UNIX on them,
>
> I'm sitting here on a Powerbook running OSX.  This *is* a Unix server.

Well, I was thinking of something that I used to have sitting in my cube 
at 
HP when I worked in engineering, like an HP9000 series with all the bells 
and whisles, about a $9K machine at the time I think, sitting right 
between 
my legs.  :)   Those machines have chunks of Powerbooks in their stools.

K-