Subj : Hi, mixed
To   : Malcolm Miles
From : Barry Blackford
Date : Sun Jul 09 2000 05:38 pm

Hello there Malcolm!

09 Jul 00 at 13:37, Malcolm Miles writes to Barry Blackford:

 SL>> what had a bbs to offer in 1977?
 SL>> was it something like those SMS messages (1liners) ?
 SL>> if in the 80's there were only 360kb disks and less...

 BB>> In the late 80's I ran the bbs on one 20mb HDD, soon upgraded to TWO
 BB>> 20gb drives blah blah <     :-)

 MM> And I started with just a pad and pencil. People would ring me up and I
 MM> would read out the messages to them and I would then write down their
 MM> messages.

 MM> File transfer was a bit more difficult but after a bit of
 MM> practice, I could read out long strings of 1's and 0's really quickly.

There's one in every bunch, this week his name is Malcolm, here Malcolm have 
some more cake :-))

BTW: I meant to say TWO 20MB drives not 20GB drives :-)))

Best Rgds, Bazz
barry@glonet.co.nz
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