Subj : Macintosh echo
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Dave Drum
Date : Fri Mar 03 2017 08:04:22

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

 DD> Q-Blue was my default OLR until I was more-or-less forced in the Windows.

 DD> still sneaker net the accasional packet over to my A-3000T. On a 3.5"
 DD> floppy since the Amiga totally predates USB thumb drives.

 KW> Back then, data was smaller. I used to carry all of the data I needed
 KW> with me on 1 or 2 repurposed AOL diskettes.  :)

 KW> I appreciated the flashback scene in Mr. Robot when Christian Slater's
 KW> character was sitting at his desk peeling AOL labels off of a stack of
 KW> disks...

Never had any truck with AOL. Nor Compu$serve. I did, however re-use some disks 
from K-Mart's abortive Blue Light network. They didn't count on people 
possessing a notcher to make their "read only" 5.25" floppies useful.

I do have friends who still have AOL addresses as their primary e-mail.

.... He had an unmatched gift of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities

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