[[ 1-28-2007 - Guido talks about the RT printed bills and the post office ]] light users than you might think. C) Neva really? B) Guido Yeah, me too. My girlfriend just asked why I was grinning. C) Neva hehe because you connected with a huge blast from the past C) Neva it really feels like we went back in time in some respects C) Neva i have a little more self control when it comes to logging on and off though B) Guido The time warp aspect is real. C) Neva the first day i got on was at my lunch break..ces had sent me an email telling me to do telnet...etc. C) Neva so, i got on and i didn't know what i was getting on to..and i saw clash and miroc and i thought, "whoa, what's this?" i thought it was some old scroll from 20 years ago C) Neva and then miroc said, "well, that's a name i haven't heard in a while" and it FREAKED ME OUT! B) Guido Ha, that's great. I saw the Wikipedia artical and was very pleased. C) Neva because then i realized it was real and they were really here..then i gave them my cell number and clash called me and we were both laughing because it was weird like we had gone back in time B) Guido I showed it to my mother this afternoon. C) Neva did she get excited? C) Neva ces did a great job on the wikipedia B) Guido Indeed, she had no idea that it would be there but agreed with what he wrote. C) Neva i think rt trained me to carry on two-three conversations at once C) Neva ok..i now have a confession to make..to clense my soul so to speak Ces) uh-oh A) Ces uh-oh B) Guido multitasking...I've lost the ability to type since those days. B) Guido uh-oh. C) Neva my parents didn't know you had to pay for rt..i got home before they did so i always got the bill..and i just paid for it B) Guido Guido absolves you. C) Neva lol thanks Ces) Guido, here's a question I have wondered for 20 years.. A) Ces Guido, here's a question I have wondered for 20 years.. C) Neva whew..that was a load off my mind B) Guido shoot. C) Neva "questions and answers with GUIDO" Ces) Why the switch from printed letterhead for the invoices to the color dot matrix printed-logo? A) Ces Why the switch from printed letterhead for the invoices to the color dot matrix printed-logo? C) Neva (cheaper) B) Guido Ha. Neva gets it in one answer. C) Neva and he waited 20 years to ask that C) Neva and i've seen ces since then! Ces) I figured it had to do with cost, but wasn't sure since a color dot matrix printer wasn't cheap back in those days. A) Ces I figured it had to do with cost, but wasn't sure since a color dot matrix printer wasn't cheap back in those days. B) Guido Continuous paper also got the bills out faster. C) Neva however, it was a color dot matrix..so that was ahead of times, wasn't it? Ces) So was printing those bills like printing money? :) A) Ces So was printing those bills like printing money? :) C) Neva and there were thousands of bills! C) Neva so, guido, did you keep the user lists or anything? C) Neva i'd love to see a list of users B) Guido A little shy of money...but I did try and get them done right after midnight, then drove them to the post office downtown in the early morning. There wasn't a lot to my job. Ces) haha A) Ces haha Ces) that's great A) Ces that's great Ces) Well hopefully not too many users stiffed you with nonpayment. A) Ces Well hopefully not too many users stiffed you with nonpayment. C) Neva and wasn't it neat to see all of us connect with each other and have the parties and gatherings? B) Guido That was mostly on diskette and I haven't tried loading one of those in decades. I have only 1 TRS-80. C) Neva laundry lurk Ces) /r ? C) Neva ces did a great job on the wikipedia B) Guido Indeed, she had no idea that it would be there but agreed with what he wrote. C) Neva i think rt trained me to carry on two-three conversations at once C) Neva ok..i now have a confession to make..to clense my soul so to speak A) Ces uh-oh B) Guido multitasking...I've lost the ability to type since those days. B) Guido uh-oh. C) Neva my parents didn't know you had to pay for rt..i got home before they did so i always got the bill..and i just paid for it B) Guido Guido absolves you. C) Neva lol thanks A) Ces Guido, here's a question I have wondered for 20 years.. C) Neva whew..that was a load off my mind B) Guido shoot. C) Neva "questions and answers with GUIDO" A) Ces Why the switch from printed letterhead for the invoices to the color dot matrix printed-logo? C) Neva (cheaper) B) Guido Ha. Neva gets it in one answer. C) Neva and he waited 20 years to ask that C) Neva and i've seen ces since then! A) Ces I figured it had to do with cost, but wasn't sure since a color dot matrix printer wasn't cheap back in those days. B) Guido Continuous paper also got the bills out faster. C) Neva however, it was a color dot matrix..so that was ahead of times, wasn't it? A) Ces So was printing those bills like printing money? :) C) Neva and there were thousands of bills! C) Neva so, guido, did you keep the user lists or anything? C) Neva i'd love to see a list of users B) Guido A little shy of money...but I did try and get them done right after midnight, then drove them to the post office downtown in the early morning. There wasn't a lot to my job. A) Ces haha A) Ces that's great A) Ces Well hopefully not too many users stiffed you with nonpayment. C) Neva and wasn't it neat to see all of us connect with each other and have the parties and gatherings? B) Guido That was mostly on diskette and I haven't tried loading one of those in decades. I have only 1 TRS-80. C) Neva laundry lurk Ces) /l SYSTEM REBOOTED 01/27-22:52 USERS ACTIVE: @) System Operator A) Ces B) Guido C) Neva >------===***===------< Ces)