Monday, September 8, 2003, 6:13:26 AM, Pixie wrote: P> To a large extent the internet and the instant gratification P> it brings especially with software is tiresome at times. I P> used to never know doodle about alpha/beta stages and having P> the freshest version just wasn't a consideration unless P> problems came up. I never used to keep this current (disregard P> my OS :-) on so many applications when it required long P> distance BBS calls at the all too slow baud rates of the day.
Many years ago, about 1985, I was an active Compu$erve user. I was using one of the first Macintoshes and used a really cool comm program called Red Ryder. It was very slick with great macros, xmodem, etc. I used Red Ryder to access Compu$erve and after a while it slowly dawned on me that the main reason I was using Compu$erve was to download new versions of RR. Eventually, I cancelled that service. Even way back then, I was fascinated with the ability of the world-wide communication that enabled. I was so proud of that 1200 baud modem when I got it! :) -- Dave Kennedy ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
