On 23 Dec 05  10:24:40, Maurice Kinal got back to Nancy Backus    
   -> Re: echos   
      
    MK> Having said that I still believe that a more universal Fido standard   
    MK> that can meet everyone's needs is achivable and could work in today's   
    MK> complex enviroment as well as with the more hardcore minimalistic   
      
   That's in using PKTs.  Other formats are nice, but it all needs    
   to have a common root.  Though I use Blue Wave, it is compatible    
   with the PKT format.     
      
    MK> Sounds like the 80's.  I've never owned or used one of them.  Some of   
    MK> those people seem really hardcore to me but I don't often bump into   
    MK> those people anymore.    
      
   Ahem!  My firsy cpu was a Tandy 1000sx.     
      
      
    MK> It was a 386.  Cutting edge stuff at the time.  I think it was the   
      
   LOL!  I nearly bought a Cutting Edge-brand computer.  There was no    
   local distributor though.  BTW, my first was an 8086.     
      
    MK> had sprung onto the scene earlier then it did.  Anyhow that was about   
    MK> 10 years ago, 95-ish, about the time all the silliness associated with   
    MK> Y2K started picking up some steam, or at least it got Hollywoodized.    
      
   Actually, there were poblems with Y2K if you weren't prepared.  The    
   primary problems were with data bases and too short of a year field.     
      
    MK> Same here.  I am not a huge fan of the web.  I prefer the oldfashioned   
    MK> stuff when internetting and performance wise it still is the best.  I   
      
   You can find anything you want on the web, true or not!     
      
      
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