10-17-14 11:06 Roger Nelson wrote to Ed Vance about Windows shutdown   
      
    RN> @MSGID: <544193BC.13501.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RN> On Thu Oct-16-2014 23:18, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to   
    RN> Roger Nelson:   
      
    EV> 10-15-14 12:41 Roger Nelson wrote to Ed Vance about Windows   
    EV> shutdown   
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    RN> I began with DOS 2.1 and switched to the OS/2 December 1992   
    RN> beta, which was free for all.  I really liked it, but it became   
    RN> obvious that IBM was going to drop it a couple of years later.   
      
    EV> It was DOS 2.11 for my first experience, and I really liked it! The   
    EV> XT had a 10MB HDD.   
      
    RN> I bet that cost a lot back then.   
      
   Howdy! Roger,   
      
   The United States Government bought the thing, not me.   
      
   The boss was given a 286 to replace the XT and told to have us use it   
   instead of the Keyboard Terminal with the Acoustic Modem we were using.   
      
   Can't remember but I think it was a DEC, prior to that we were using a   
   Texas Instruments Terminal.   
      
   If You've been reading the echo for some time You have probably heard   
   me tell this, but I just remembered this story and had to write it.   
      
   The instructions we were given was to press the CTRL and G keys at the   
   same time to Log On.   
      
   One of the shift leaders I worked with was cussing up a storm because   
   when He tried pressing BOTH Keys at the same time He wouldn't get   
   connected.   
      
   He would POUND those keys something furious and not get any results.   
      
   One day I was assigned to His shift because a person was on vacation,   
   and I told Him to use the CTRL key as it was another Shift Key,   
   press it first and then press the G key.   
      
   After He fummed a bit He did as I told Him and got connected so He   
   could send our River data out.   
      
   That man was preparing to throw the Terminal out the window, it made   
   Him so mad.   
      
   I had used a Commodore 64 at home for a couple of years so I didn't   
   know it all, but I knew just enough that time to help out at work.   
      
   ... "And we'll have fun, fun, fun..." What? A moderator? Never mind.   
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