Subj : Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : nelgin
Date : Fri Mar 29 2024 14:03:36

  Re: Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Fri Mar 29 2024 06:53:00

 > Pacific Bell had a flat rate interior installation charge, I think it
 > was $75. The installer must have liked me, because he brought a
 > 4-conductor telco wire from the DMARC, up through the garbage chute to
 > the second floor, stapled up and over 3 doors, the elevator, then back
 > down to my apartment, drilled under the baseboard to get through the
 > wall, then into the walk-in closet that was my office space.

Sounds like he went above and beyond. I guess he couldn't just run it up the outside and through a hole in the window frame like they did with my phone install.

 > Had I known better, or known I would only stay there 2 years, common
 > sense might have prevailed. Luckily, I was a dumb kid and the rest is
 > history.

What's $75 when you're young and stupid :)

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