In a message dated 08-16-15, Roger Nelson said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Good morning Roger,   
      
   RN> When I first started out in Fidonet as a user and then a node, I had   
   RN> but 384K of RAM, which, oddly enough, was tne number of the net I   
   RN> belonged.  My original address was 1:384/6.  I had no hard drive and   
   RN> a 2-diskette system.   
      
   As you may understand I skipped the IT-era and also the 300 bps modems.   
   I started with a 1200 modem that very soon was replaced by a 2400 one.   
      
   RN> ............  One had to place "=X" after the filename one was   
   RN> getting or the download you received wasn't exactly what you   
   RN> expected.   
      
   I don't recall having such problems. I finally stuck with Telix as modem   
   and I still miss it. It was very clever in that it named the QWK-packets   
   with a new suffix if there were earlier packets from the same host B4.   
   PCBoard doesn't do that :o(   
      
    HG> It won't be free of course if I have to buy a modern machine   
    HG> though.   
      
   RN> And if you have to buy W10, the Home version is $119.99 and the Pro   
   RN> version is $199.99.  I don't like psychological pricing.   
      
   And to that has to be addad a more modern computer to be able to install   
   that.   
      
      
   Have a nice day,   
      
   Holger   
      
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