RADIOFR Tull's Tawkin! 020228

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[agitator]

Tull's Tawkin'

Thursday, Feb. 28, 2002 - 6 PM, PDT/9 PM, EDT

Special guest, Ed Balajeski, grass roots political activist, Marine Corp Veteran,
Pacific theater WW II and editor of the "The Pennsylvania Crier."

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[michigander]

Bump!

[pad 34]

Tuned in. BTTT!

[Mercuria]

BTTT!!!!

TUNE IN!!!!

[The_Expatriate]

Dang! I'm at work now, so I can't tune in. The shows are archived, though, aren't they?

[SamAdams76]

Bumping, Jethro is on now...

[agitator]

yup, they're archived!

[Bob J]

GO JT!

[SamAdams76]

Jethro is now talking about Jim Robinson and how they go back to the Prodigy News BB days of the mid-90s. Yeah, I remember those days! Now introducing the main guest...

[anniegetyourgun]

I'm here for as long as I can stay! Thanks for ping!

[Bob J]

Great job so far JT!

[Robert_Paulson2]

I remember signing on via the auspices of one of the Compuserve discussion forums... Back then it looked like a bulletin board service around here... around here... seems like it was what? summer of 95?

Back in the days of 14.4 modem dialups...

Things indeed have become something different. How many free republic members then versus now? Less than 7-8 hundred, versus what 70-80 thousand?

[Kay Ludlow]

Go JT!

[TLBSHOW]

Bump TO RADIO FR

[HangFire]

Just sat down and tuned in;-)

[SamAdams76]

Show is in commercial break right now. The audio feed is quite clear. Anyway...

I first signed onto Prodigy the summer of 1993 with a 2400 bps modem. This was before the World Wide Web took off and when I signed onto Prodigy for the first time, it was a whole new world. Life was never the same again. I literally haven't seen a sitcom or drama on network TV since that day. I remember Prodigy was charging $3.60 an hour! That Bulletin Board Manager (that allowed you to download messages to read offline) was a godsend. Otherwise I would have gone broke.

It didn't take me long to find the NEW BB and then the WHITEWATER BB and then I was hooked. It was right around the time when Vince Foster was killed. Hard to believe it was only 8 or 9 years ago. Seems like a lifetime.

Anyway, back to Jethro's show...

[AppyPappy]

JT sounds really good.

[AppyPappy]

I joined Prodigy in 94 but never used it much. It didn't respond well to my 14.4. I did hang out on Compuserve alot.

[who knows what evil?]

JT sounds really good.

I agree...good show, JT.

[Registered]

Bumping.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I just got back online after having to defrag my computer after it froze up at 5:15 PM PST.

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[SamAdams76]

Prodigy always had a clunky interface. It looked sometimes like it was run out of some kid's basement. Here is an old screenshot from the service that should bring back memories for some. Back in 1994, this was some "high-falutin'" stuff. I was the first person in my family, in my neighborhood and in my workplace to have an e-mail address. For a brief, shining moment in time, I was on the cutting edge of technology. I even listened to Nirvana.

[FReethesheeples]

;^)

[Lancey Howard]

Same here with the TV. The morning that Jackie Judd "broke" the intern scandal on ABC I went to my new (and first) computer and hunted around for the site that was mentioned, "The Drudge Report". I found it quick and clicked on "White Water" and bang!....took me right into a Free Republic thread. Bookmarked it, and I haven't left in four years. That marked the end of TV for me, although I have gotten back into it a little bit lately for things like The Rockford Files at midnight on TVLand, and the Olympics, stuff like that.
I agree with you: "....it was a whole new world".

[TLBSHOW]

Don't you hate that?

[pad 34]

Thanks Tull!

Great show.

[StopGlobalWhining]

Great show! Thanks Tom, and Ed is a wonderful fellow. Does he have a FR handle? Thank him for his service to our country, and for volunteering his personal memory bank to the show tonight. Deb, good to hear you. Thanks for calling in. Fred

[AppyPappy]

I found some old BBS downloads that I used for Internet. That was fun. Reading the old alt.smokers.cigars and alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater stuff. Even had my email listserve stuff from the Advanced Squad Leader list.

Yup the good old days.

[Bob J]

I lost my connection and the last part of the show! Hope it went well!

[Jethro Tull]

ALL: Thanks for the kind comments. It's been a few years, but I think I shook some of the rust off.

I must say, both Ed and I give RADIO FR a mega Grade "A" for professionalism.

The Agitator gave us a great tutorial today, and I appreciated both Fred and Deb calling in.

The political fight we're in isn't kids stuff (ask JR). These SOB's are after our land, our money and to use a line from Mel Gibson's Braveheart, our freedom.

The key is to fight these battles on a local level....

[AppyPappy]

Me too. Actually, my wife wanted to "talk" so that ended that.

[Robert_Paulson2]

I remember the compuserve interface... not much different on my monitor than a dial up bbs... 1995 early summer, maybe spring. I thought you had to use the same name and password to get into the forum that I used to sign on to compuserve... I think my name on the forum was actually a number... hee hee.

Windows 3.0 and the dreaded "general protection fault" every time I tried to sign off... those were the days. I remember downloading pages, without any graphics, so I could sign off and read what was going on in the world...

Was it THAT long ago... 94-95? Dang, what a ride!

I don't think there was even colored text way back then... I would have never known, I started with a monocrome monitor and "upgraded" it to a 16 color 11 inch monitor... Today we have full color and pictures, with graphics on almost every page... at least colored text.

I had never even SEEN a windows machine till then... only unix mainframes and green monochrome monitors, for the previous 20 plus years. It seems likme all I did was blink... and 30 years were gone.

[Robert_Paulson2]

enjoyed the show. thanks for "doing it."

[philman_36]

Ya'll are as old as I...Compuserve, Prodigy, bulletin boards...so long ago it seems.
Different time, different place, different names.
If only I could do "Total Recall". So much so long ago...so much water under the bridge.

[philman_36]

Was it THAT long ago... 94-95?
My first PC was in late 92/early 93.
I used this current nomiker when I got back on the net after a hiatus of a year or two. My how things changed during that time frame.
Windows 3.0 and the dreaded "general protection fault"...
The old "blue screen of death" eh?

[agitator]

You guys are youngsters! ;-) 

I was bbs'ing back in '87, and multitasking under DOS with Desqview. 

Windoze v.1.0 ? Oh, yeah, I've heard of that. I hear it's lame. 

Want a blast from the past?

try this: telnet://66.189.28.140

;-)

[Beep]

Wow -- I think I pre-dinsosaur even you! If this counts; it should -- I fiddle-farted around with it and got into more than I was supposed to! Picture it: Nashville, Holiday Hell, 1981, and the Holidex system! I chatted nightly with other Holiday Inn front desk staff in D.C., Fargo, Winnipeg, Brazil, Paris, London, Liverpool, Abu Dhabi . . . ad holidenauseum! I was hooked on that Holidex! After the front desk manager caught "too many personal Holidexes," to all of us (*G*) he coded us out. I hacked us back in! (Quick learner, especially when I'm motivated! *G*)

My first PC of my own was -- don't puke -- an IBM PC-JR!! My first true online "service" -- also Prodigy. I could be found in the Star Trek (Next Generation only!) rooms, mostly "DataBase." My handle? As intriguing as my current one, but I had no choice in that one. HGJW85B! Fascinating handle, don't you think?? *VBG*

As lame as it all was, I have very fond memories, and friends who are still around from back then! (It was all women, and we met up and had huge slumber parties in our hotel rooms when we went to conventions! Yes -- nerdy Trek conventions! But I did not dress like a Klingon, thank you!!)

Memories, memories, memories! (I got a trip to London and rural England out of it; I only had to buy the plane ticket and bring spending money; room and board were covered!!) (COOL pub right across the street, and Harrods just down the block! They even had my cigs [not an easy feat!] and my Dr. Pepper!! It was heaven!) But darned if Big Ben wasn't getting a facelift and covered with scaffolding the entire time I was there! The chimes from the olde clock still rang out as usual, thank goodness -- and their "Chinese takeaway?" To die for!!

Just thinking about everything I did back then makes me tired now. ;-{

Dang, gang, I am O-L-D!!

;-}

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Great Show Tull.

Yup, it's a "cold-eyed march toward the dawn, behind hard weather hoods a-hiding..."

[Jethro Tull]

Thanks Scott.

[VinnyTex]

Finally got a chance to listen to the show. Good job.

That Brooklyn accent is pretty heavy

[Jethro Tull]

"That Brooklyn accent is pretty heavy."

Yeah, that's what happens when one spends his formative years hanging out on Flatbush Ave...