Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: 3.5 Floppies
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Fri Feb 27, 2026 07:52

@VIA: REALITY
-=> Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

 RM> A long time friend of mine, since highschool, worked in one of Canada's
 RM> largest Telecom companies and he used to get nice, not too old,
 RM> computers for both of us from the back rooms where they were waiting
 RM> to be 'recycled'.

 At my first job, I decided to nickname my car "the dumpter". Every time
 my boss told me to clean out the storage room and toss everything into
 the dumpster, I willfully complied.

 He used to buy first, research later. This was the place with the
 dial-up WAN - he bought all Anchor Signalman non error-correcting
 modems, then had to replace them all shortly thereafter with
 error-correcting modems. All of the old modems went into a box, which I
 tossed into a dumpster. I handed out probably a dozen of them to people
 who ended up calling BBSes with them or passed them on to others.

 Atone of our gettogethers, I heard a new caller talk about someone
 giving him an "anchor modem" and discovering BBSes.





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