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Old October 6th, 2019, 10:52 AM
Christopher Carson
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Default Re: [Dixonary] OT Nostalgia

I think 2400 was my 3rd or 4th modem. The first was a 110 baud with an acoustic coupler that you stuffed a telephone handset into. It was installed on a Western Electric ASR33 that also had a paper tape punch/reader. What fun! I used to have a collection of tapes that would print ASCII pictures, the kind made with letters and punctuation marks. Then came a 300 baud with RS-232 connection followed by a 1200. I was working with TBBS (The BreadBoard System) at the time and a 2400 was for “high speed” testing and to cut down the per minute charges. TBBS was a dial in bulletin board system that could handle up to 16 telephone lines simultaneously.

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On Oct 6, 2019, at 08:51, Judy Madnick <jmadnick (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:


Okay, you win.

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From: "Daniel B Widdis" <widdis (AT) dixonary (DOT) net>
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Dated: 10/5/2019 7:00:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA

I think if my first modem was 2400 baud and I paid for CI$ by the minute (until I snagged myself a comped account for “volunteering” 40 hours a month), I get to call myself old. 😃

From: on behalf of Judy Madnick
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Date: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 1:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA

But at the time we thought it was great!

Judy

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From: "Christopher Carson"
To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com;
Dated: 10/4/2019 1:24:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA

Ah, nostalgia. I fondly remember the Tapfests that occurred from time to time. I recall one out on Long Island shortly after I came east in 1996 and 2 or 3 at a jazz restaurant on 10th Ave in Chelsea in Manhattan. Theresa Carey, Stu Lieberman, Et al. I think the notorious ’Nando Gelbard even showed up on occasion. Those pre World Wide Web TAPCIS days were a trip. . It’s hard to imagine worrying about per minute charges and 2400 baud modems nowadays.

Chris

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On Oct 4, 2019, at 10:30, Judy M. wrote:



Good memories (including TAPCIS) for us old-timers, although you don't qualify as "old," Dan!

Judy
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 10:09 AM Daniel B Widdis wrote:
The title of a song containing the lyric “You’re breaking my heart,” sung when CompuServe eliminated text-based access and forced users into their Compuserve Information Manager (CIM) user interface.

(shout out to us old timers)

From: on behalf of Dave Cunningham
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Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 5:50 AM
To: Dixonary
Subject: [Dixonary] NEW WORD: CIMELIA

For which kindly send me your wondrous fake definitions before Saturday morning at 8 a.m. EDT, adjusting to your local time zones. 47 hours from the time stamp on this message.

DQs are not quite as sought after.

Dave
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