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|    Daryl Stout to George Pope    |
|    Re: Old PC's    |
|    10 Jan 22 10:02:00    |
      TZUTC: -0600       MSGID: 815.fidonet-memories@1:2320/33 2641ac91       REPLY: 1:153/757.0 b1ca9d61       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/a3cb54710 Jan 9 2022 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/a3cb54710 Jan 9 2022 MSC 1928       BBSID: TBOLT       CHRS: ASCII 1       George,               GP> I went 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE, that horribly slow Windows, Vista(Ugh,        GP> don't ask!), XP, 8.1, 10, & recently 11, even though I turned off        GP> updates!               Was a Windows Vista a lousy hotspot to visit??               GP> In between, I tried Windows 2.0 on DOS 3, just to try it, & ran        GP> Netscape 0.9beta on it, on a 300 baud "high speed sysop's external        GP> modem"! (for real!)               Yeah, I started with Netscape, then Internut Exploder. I've also used       Opera (I was using it when it was still shareware), Firefox, and Edge. I'm       back to Opera now.               GP> Went onto AltaVista search engine & a couple BBSes just so they could        GP> screencap "that idiot user who called in at 300," & brag about it in        GP> sysop echoes!               I remember when one got a 2400 or 9600 or 14.4 modem, you thought you       were really smokin'. |
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