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To: kristinn
I still feel like a newbie when the old timers start reminiscing about the days when FR ran on vacuum tubes and telegraph wires.

Yah... and posting with punch cards was a real pain too.

156 posted on 11/22/2007 7:24:02 PM PST by glock rocks (A near majority of Americans have below average intelligence.)
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To: glock rocks; Jim Robinson
I still feel like a newbie when the old timers start reminiscing about the days when FR ran on vacuum tubes and telegraph wires.
Yah... and posting with punch cards was a real pain too.

It did get rather messy when the spellchecker started re-typing the punchcards ....

159 posted on 11/22/2007 7:25:46 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: glock rocks
Yah... and posting with punch cards was a real pain too.

Easy for you to say! I was the one who had to use rubbing alcohol and q-tips to clean the tape deck leads! (That was back when we had librarians instead of moderators.) ;)
268 posted on 11/23/2007 10:06:52 AM PST by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and tshirtcollections.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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