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|    Gaylen Hintz to Charles Stephenson    |
|    TS 1000    |
|    30 May 19 23:55:01    |
      CHRS: CP437 2       MSGID: 1:18/200@fidonet 563098bb       PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       TZUTC: -0400       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       -=> Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-               GH> It was a Radio Shak computer roughly about the size of a timex sinclair        GH> computer with a chicklet keyboard and did run color basic programs.               CS> Ahh yeah I remember those! My father had one! I thought those were so        CS> cool. Didn't it have a built-in modem too?               No, that particular model didn't nor did any of the color computer from        radio shak. It wasn't until I had a coco3 with what was called a multipak       interface was an rs32 port available to hook into a Hayes combatable modem.               CS> Yeah, there were alot of cool command line functions I miss. I loved               ditto                CS> reading the monthy PC Mag (there was a DOS mag too we got montly)        CS> showing 'new' useful commands. Giving you stuff to your config.sys and        CS> autexec.bat was awesome!               Ah yes, the batch programming.. you really could automate a bunch of stuff       with those batch scripts. Of course , one little glitch in the syntax and you       could mess a bunch of stuff up as well. :)              ... 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case...HMMMM       --- MultiMail/Win32        * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 18/200 226/16 17 229/354 426 452 728 981 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 633/280       PATH: 18/200 229/426           |
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