On Mon Aug-17-2015 09:57, Holger Granholm (2:20/228) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    HG> In a message dated 08-16-15, Roger Nelson said to Holger Granholm:    
      
    HG> Good morning Roger,   
      
   The jury is still out on that, but what the heck.  It's raining here, which   
   dropped us out of the 35-37C heat wave we've had.   
      
   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.   
      
    HG> As you may understand I skipped the IT-era and also the 300 bps   
    HG> modems. I started with a 1200 modem that very soon was replaced by   
    HG> a 2400 one.    
      
   If done right, we were able to squeeze 400+ out of that modem.  Whoopie!  (-:   
      
   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.   
      
    HG> I don't recall having such problems. I finally stuck with Telix as   
    HG> modem and I still miss it. It was very clever in that it named the   
    HG> QWK-packets with a new suffix if there were earlier packets from   
    HG> the same host B4. PCBoard doesn't do that :o(   
      
   That's probably because you didn't begin with a very rudimentary terminal   
   program like the one I began with.  Then along came SmartCom, Crosstalk,   
   PC-Talk,  and some others and the "=X" could be dropped.  I finally settled on   
   Qmodem and by then I had a 1200 baud modem.  I remember in our net we were   
   worried about the CRC errors which could occur at that speed.  Look at us now.   
      
    HG> It won't be free of course if I have to buy a modern machine   
    HG> though.   
      
   I know mine wasn't, but I like to buy the parts separately and put them   
   together myself.  Less expensive that way.   
      
   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.   
      
    HG> And to that has to be addad a more modern computer to be able to   
    HG> install that.   
      
   Makes one wonder when enough is going to be enough.  I don't think it ever   
   will be.   
      
    HG> Have a nice day,   
      
   You too.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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