Subj : i remember.. a fancy new laptop
To   : Daryl Stout
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Feb 08 2021 07:58:00

Hello Daryl Stout!

** On Sunday 07.02.21 - 19:36, Daryl Stout wrote to Mike Powell:

 DS>   One funny thing I remember is that at one gathering, we
 DS>   were at an area Denny's Restaurant (which long since
 DS>   closed down, the building was razed) when this one Sysop
 DS>   (he's dead and gone now, and his BBS is long gone), put
 DS>   this case on the table and took a fancy new laptop out of
 DS>   it, and started working with it. Like a magnet, all eyes
 DS>   gravitated to his table, and it was like a collective
 DS>   "WOW!!" emanated from the crowd. <G>

Reminds me of the time when I was on a business trip, rented a  
laptop (an early offering that only had an LCD screen) for a  
week, took that to work and used it to "dialup" to my office and  
transfer files, using Kermit. Before that, the files were copied  
onto disk and sent via mail/courier. Email wasn't trusted to be  
secure enough. When there was a coding problem we could exchange  
segments of code several times a day.

I also used the laptop to dialup BBSes with Fidonet so that I  
could keep up with echomail from my hotel room.  I thought it  
was very strange that the engineers and techs at my remote  
office didn't know about dialup BBSes at the time - or they  
thought BBSes were just for exchanging porn files?
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  ../|ug

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