Subj : FidoGazette Vol 13 no 37
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Sep 14 2019 16:41:00

Mike,

MP>>   I wasn't aware that Bill McGarrity had passed away recently as well.
MP>> I've been so busy with stuff after my Mom's death and funeral on August
MP>> 9, that I've missed quite a bit of stuff.

MP>I just thought he never brought his board back up after the storm last
MP>year.  I did not realize he had also passed.

  I couldn't remember the name of his BBS (Tequila Mockingbirg BBS), but
I had lunch with a local BBS Sysop (he picked up the tab as
thanks)...and he told me the name of the BBS. I knew Bill had ran
SportNet, but not sure what other networks he headed up offhand.

  I gave him an old laptop that quit working on me. So, he formatted the
hard drive, and is going to put another OS on it. He got the laptop
(which I had gotten used at a ham radio festival (hamfest) several years
ago. It had Windows Vista Basic on it. He got the laptop, power supply,
and I threw in a Microsoft USB 2.4 Ghz wireless mouse, a mouse pad, and
an external DVD USB drive. I'm going to get him a US Robotics 56K v.92
Extrenal Fax Modem to him another day. I don't have a dial-up line, and
VoIP lines (i.e. MagicJack) don't work well with modems, but the analog
phone lines are all but gone now...as are the dial-up BBS's.

  I bought a new Lenovo Laptop with Windows 10 64-bit on it, and can put
some stuff on it that won't work on my Windows 10 32-bit systems.

Daryl


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