Re: Geek Reminiscing

["Hugh F." <fitzhugh@mindspring.com>]

At 10:43 AM 10/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:13:52AM -0400, Jeff Kidd wrote:
Asking your mom for the money to join a bbs for the first time.
Then explaining what a bbs is.

Talking to the SYSOP and getting him to give you more time...
>> Ascii Downloads, Kermit, Xmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Zmodem, Bimodem,
>> HyperModem, HSlink  ( I still have all of these on my PC)

Downloading with a TANDY 1000 with a whopping 128kb of ram and a 300 baud
modem...

2d Scrolling Apogee games -- Captain Keen... 

>Leech Zmodem! It canceled the download at the very end so that
>it didn't count against you on the BBS!
> 
>> GCNeXT
Using multiple mftp session on the NeXT for more games - wustl - 
Playing Pool on the NeXT...
Ytalk...
>
>Jeff laughing at my Apple IIgs..
> TCP/IP for the Apple II! --> http://www.apple2.org/marinetti/

Interlaced Monitors.... 
When a gig was a big deal.
 
Robbie talking about some guy named Dr Lowney?

>> Mike Murphy, Bobby, Dev
>
>Feng, Lin "VIRUS!! VIRUS!!", 207 lab boot disks..
>
Bobby and Mike's fractal project...

Criag Hawkins reaching 10db...
Ms. Heath Covering herself with her books -as if ...
Dr Adkins when Ms Heath was leaving - "The most beautiful black women I
have ever seen" and then...

Patrick not knowing how to turn the Monitor on...

The Poster on the Sun Lab that said "No PORNOGRAPHY" then walking into the
lab and seeing the 'coke bottle' movie playing....

Jeff Kidd - working at that crappy little computer store...
Killing the campus with CU See me in the Mac lab in Kilpatrick.