10-07-2024, 04:27 PM
Great thread idea, one of the companies my father represented had us set up a stockroom where we could sell, invoice, and ship merchandise. Circa 1987-88 I think, they sent us IBM computer DOS program with a hard drive that was as wide as an album and 2-3 inches thick, anyway, we had a local guy set it up and help with maintenance. Later he sold us an early Apple Macintosh II that we used for bookwork, I loved messing around with it did a lot of our bookkeeping, set up a customer database, did all of our business forms etc.
A year or 2 later my parents bought me a Mac II for Christmas and that's when I got a modem after the tech told me about Prodigy, Compuserve, and AOL. I signed up and was on message boards on all of them fairly soon thereafter, but AOL was the best option had more topics, a better interface, etc.
I can remember discussing the Desert Shield and Desert Storm on the old AOL board football. Discussed the war a lot back then too.
LOL, I recall a sound byte from Jurassic Park was leaked online in late 1992 it was the famous scene where the T-Rex escaped it took hours to download the sound clip from when the lawyer left the kids to when the TRex broke through the fence and roared. Then the tech told me about Napster
We still get business emails on our AOL email addresses, we all have other addresses too, but this was the first one I set up for Dad and he was adamant about not changing his over the years. We reply to all of his emails and below it lists our new emails, but a lot of the old timers use it from muscle memory
A year or 2 later my parents bought me a Mac II for Christmas and that's when I got a modem after the tech told me about Prodigy, Compuserve, and AOL. I signed up and was on message boards on all of them fairly soon thereafter, but AOL was the best option had more topics, a better interface, etc.
I can remember discussing the Desert Shield and Desert Storm on the old AOL board football. Discussed the war a lot back then too.
LOL, I recall a sound byte from Jurassic Park was leaked online in late 1992 it was the famous scene where the T-Rex escaped it took hours to download the sound clip from when the lawyer left the kids to when the TRex broke through the fence and roared. Then the tech told me about Napster
We still get business emails on our AOL email addresses, we all have other addresses too, but this was the first one I set up for Dad and he was adamant about not changing his over the years. We reply to all of his emails and below it lists our new emails, but a lot of the old timers use it from muscle memory
His mind was not for rent to any god or government, always hopeful yet discontent. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is ....
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
