On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:40:26 GMT, (Robert Lay W9DMK) wrote:

Dear BB,

Amen!

My first experience with "dial-up" was in 1965. I was asked to try out
a program in Basic that designed electric motors. You had to dial up
this big main frame in Boston - Dartmouth, I think. We had a teletype
as a terminal and an acoustic modem at 300 baud. The acoustic modem
was a telephone handset with sponge cups for earpiece and mouthpiece
that snugged around the telephone handset. Acoustic coupling means no
electric connection - good for lightning isolation - Hi!

You typed in your Basic program and tried it out. If you wanted to pay
a monthly fee for storage you could save your typed in program on
their disk for a monthly fee. Talk about a text based interface -
primitive doesn't even begin to describe it.

I am tickled to have V.90 at somewhere above 33 kBaud. It makes your
head swim to think about where it will be 5 years from now.
Bob, W9DMK, Dahlgren, VA
http://www.qsl.net/w9dmk

Hi Bob, thanks for the new Smith program. I did have a problem downloading it,
and still don't know if it's all there.

We're returning to Florida early tomorrow morning, and once I get the external
drive connected down there I'll determine if your program is in working order.
If not, I'll email you for a new download.

So far, it looks like a real winner!

Walt