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      Aaron wrote --   
      
   >  JM>   For the first couple of years it was just a glorified typewriter.   
   >    
   > You did better with it than me! I bought a C64 at about the same time, but I   
   couldn't figure out how to do anything with it, not even type & print.   
      
      At the time that is about all I wanted, or really knew about.   
      I started out with a tape drive, which took 15 minutes to load Text Pro.    
   Eventually I got a disc drive which loaded in the blazing fast speed of like   
   two minutes.  :)   
      Plus with the disc I could save whatever masterpiece I had written.    
      
   > I remember seeing 56k as an option in my comm program, but I never thought   
   I'd see the day when I'd actually own one - and then toss it in the trash   
   because it's obsolete :)   
      
     I found a 300 baud some time ago I had saved.  Mostly it was a back up in   
   case something happened to the newer one.   
      I never thought anything could be faster than 56k.  I thought the same   
   thing about the 1200, 2400, etc.   
      Of course almost everything was text and I always said it didn't really   
   matter the speed since I could read only so fast.  :)   
      
   > mine down in 1998 when the calls almost completely stopped.   
      
      Traffic around here was about the same in that era.     
      It seemed one year locals were all the rage, the following year it was   
   "local boards?  What are those?" by the same users.   
      Joe   
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