On Sat Oct-18-2014 00:26, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
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    RN> I bet that cost a lot back then.   
      
    EV> The United States Government bought the thing, not me.   
      
   IOW, the taxpayer,   
      
    EV> The boss was given a 286 to replace the XT and told to have us use   
    EV> it instead of the Keyboard Terminal with the Acoustic Modem we were   
    EV> using.    
      
   I didn't have an acoustic modem, but I did see some weird setups, i.e., 8"   
   drives and the like in business places.   
      
    EV> Can't remember but I think it was a DEC, prior to that we were   
    EV> using a Texas Instruments Terminal.   
      
   I had a DEC OS boxed and never used prior to hurricane Katrina.   
      
    EV> If You've been reading the echo for some time You have probably   
    EV> heard me tell this, but I just remembered this story and had to   
    EV> write it.    
      
   I have been around awhile.   
      
    EV> The instructions we were given was to press the CTRL and G keys at   
    EV> the same time to Log On.   
      
    EV> One of the shift leaders I worked with was cussing up a storm   
    EV> because when He tried pressing BOTH Keys at the same time He   
    EV> wouldn't get connected.   
      
    EV> He would POUND those keys something furious and not get any   
    EV> results.    
      
    EV> One day I was assigned to His shift because a person was on   
    EV> vacation, and I told Him to use the CTRL key as it was another   
    EV> Shift Key, press it first and then press the G key.   
      
    EV> After He fummed a bit He did as I told Him and got connected so He   
    EV> could send our River data out.   
      
    EV> That man was preparing to throw the Terminal out the window, it   
    EV> made Him so mad.   
      
    EV> I had used a Commodore 64 at home for a couple of years so I didn't   
    EV> know it all, but I knew just enough that time to help out at work.    
      
   I remember on some computers you had to press Ctrl-S to enter the BIOS, but   
   didn't know of that one.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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