Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : Darklord
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Sat Jul 09 2022 14:03:04

On 09 Jul 22  11:39:40 Darklord wrote...

DD> Way back in the day, we used to have "BBS" parties at the local Pizza
DD> Hut. We had crowds of 30-50 people show up, and it drove the PH
DD> workers nuts trying to arrange seating for us all. Those were really
DD> good times, we had older people, younger people, all thrown in the
DD> mix with good food and great conversation.
DD> 
DD> I have to admit, I miss those days...  :)

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

I do wish I had been a little older in those days so I could have gone to
stuff like that without relying on older friends or parents for
transportation.  My parents weren't really the kind to let me go hang out
with strange adults (and meeting them only helped to confirm the
"strange" part in many cases).

And of course, let us not forget the "user group meetings" which we all
know were swap-meets.... as in, we meet and swap disks in and out as
we.... archive them (and of course, you need to archive off-site, so...
each of my friend's homes were... off-site!)

The one I went to a couple times (again, young, transportation, parents
found out what was going on) was in the basement of a church of all
places.

I always wondered if they knew how many times that commandment was being
broken.

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