Subj : Macintosh echo
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Dave Drum
Date : Wed Mar 01 2017 07:25:16

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> you'll get on Phydeaux. And it's a low traffic echo. Me, I gave up on
pple
 DD> when they introduced the Lisa (pre-Mac).

 KW> I bet some classic mac users might come out of the woodwork if we
 KW> posted here.

That's all you can hope for. The kiddies with the iPhones ans iPads are all on 
the World Wide Wait and have ne klew about BBS systems or Phydeaux.

 KW> I started out working at my college bookstore on Mac Pluses running
 KW> Farallon's PhoneNet network. We had a couple of Laserwriters and wired
 KW> the Macs to an old McDonnell Douglas midrange computer using Red Ryder
 KW> terminal software. Some of my first BBSing was dialing out with that
 KW> kit when I should have been working.

 KW> I had a Lisa - it was running underneath my desk acting as a mail
 KW> server with its expansive 5 MB hard drive.

 KW> Later on, I worked at Berkeley Systems, the After Dark screen saver
 KW> folks, and they were hardcore Mac. I had my favorite system ever, an
 KW> old IIci with a cache card, loaded with RAM and external hard drives.
 KW> That system never crashed.

I owned an Amiga store - but would send people looking for Desktop publishing 
uses to the local Apple joint. Until Page Stream for the Miggy happened. Amiga 
users didn't kow what the "blue screen of death" was unless at a Windows user's 
computer.

.... Remember, not all "improvements" are an improvement. -- Dave Drum; 2017

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