He was Engineering's earliest and most whole-hearted adopter of business e-mail. You can tell the pioneers -- they're the ones with all the arrow wounds.
BUILDING A 1:1 BALUN
4 years ago
Monday, November 17, 2008
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7 or 8 years ago a friend of mine lost his e-mail address It went to his old ARPANET e-mail from the '70's. His "section" was spun off to a private corporation. (His co-workers were asked to "produce something commercial" and the made a holographic sight. yea them.) Some of those "first adopters" have been around for a while.
I began my foray into 'computing' (HA!) with a TI99. Mostly I just poked buttons and made monkey sounds. Oh, and a Sinclair of course. Look at the colors it makes!
I recall dialing into the federal reserve bank (pre-net) with a 256K dial up modem, and thinking I was the hottest thing alive. That was a 386/25 running DOS. 5.0 I think.
Prodigy, Compuserve, then that new fangled 'internet' thing (born as the ARPA net)
Man, it's been a long time
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Well, of the two forms of self-flagellation provided, dealing with lawyers is certainly one of them.
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