Overpricing (was: Re: [SunRescue] Looking for disk array, was: needNT-1

[Dan Lane]

Did I mention how I wanna be like bob when I grow up?

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BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak sent the following on Wed, 7 Mar 2001...

> > > See, now that's okay.  We have one or two remaining 3.1 customers with
> > > (s)Trumpet.  They're not a bother.  I'm waiting for someone to connect
> > > up with their C-64. :)
> >
> > Once, when I was bored, I dialed up with my Hayes Smartmodem 300 (external,
> > from the days when men made REAL MODEMS) and Trumpet Winsock.
> >
> > Slow, but it worked.  Man, I miss that modem - heavy, METAL, and LEDs you
> > could see across a parking lot.
>
> Gee, Bill, I just threw out my last rubber-cuppie 110 baud modem,
> that I used in the old ASR33 days.  Golly, I should have saved it
> for you.....(:+}}..... (running, ducking for cover.....)
>
> Nothing is as slow as reading the netnews on an ASR33....!
>
> Real diehards cut the netnews to a paper tape, overnight, spooled it,
> and read it the next day!
>
> (Whew!  It has been 18 years since I last read the netnews that way,
>         thank heavens!)
>
> Bob
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