[Artemisia] the dreaded and horrible circlets...

[Kit]

You are not the only one that learnt on a plug board.  Coming from 
Australia, that is what you were taught on in the Tech High Schools full of 
girls.  When I first moved here to nowheresville Idaho you only had to dial 
4 numbers to get the person in the area.  If you had to dial long distance 
you had to ask for the operator to connect you.

As for the top/bottom well I have been using puters since 1983 and I am 
totally lost with what that references to internet, but can put two and two 
together for other references. lol...

Does it really matter if you really top or bottom as long as you get your 
point across you don't step on others toes verbally and just be one in mind 
with our dream.

Cathryn Anne of Newbury
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LadyPDC at aol.com>
To: <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] the dreaded and horrible circlets...


>
> In a message dated 1/20/2008 10:02:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> connor.mac.michil at gmail.com writes:
>
> Conchobhar .... no, really, Mike (who, for as young as he thinks he is 
> ...
> was on Compuserve before they invented GIF and used it when they used 
> commas
> in the user numbers, had one of the first 1000 accounts on  Prodigy,
> remembers when USENET started, and at age 10 had an ARPANET  bang-path
> connection on the Apple ][+ ... crap, I'm getting  old)
>
>
>
> Please stop ....  you are making me feel ancient.  I had an  earlier 
> number
> on Compuserve than you because I joined when they first came out  and 
> offered
> "specials" if you would just give them a try.
>
> I would note that those on AOL bottom post most often because that is what
> it does automatically.  I have always been confused by the top/bottom 
> thing
> too, so I usually just reply in what ever manner the post was sent, 
> assuming
> that this is what the sender reads most easily or prefers.
>
> And then I could mention all the money I gave to Compuserve, AOL, etc 
> before
> they all went to a flat monthly fee and back when they charged you per
> minute.  Of course I also remember  one of the first dot matrix  printers 
> ever
> seen, almost the size of a small room and so slow by today's  standard but 
> boy did
> it look and sound fast then.  I tell our end users who  complain about a 
> slow
> running speed about our first business computer which took  two minutes
> between screens and we thought that was screaming fast.  Now 2  seconds 
> between
> screens means your machine is shutting down.
>
> Think I will go back to typing on the old manual typewriters, just to feel
> fast again.
>
> (should I mention that they taught me telephone reception at high school 
> on
> a real switchboard - the kind you used to see on the comedy shows where 
> you
> pulled cords in and out of a board full of holes?  Or that I first learned 
> to
> call my mother's office from my home by asking the operator for her 
> company
> name and to connect me with "Linda"?   Yes it was a small town in 
> Wyoming, but
> I still feel very old)
>
>
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> Kingdom of Artemisia
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