Advocacy versus alientation (was Re: [ale] Re:)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 22:27, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:32, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>~    I think if we were all honest with ourselves, there was a time not
> >>too long ago where we, too, were more than happy to be rocking along
> >>with Outlook Express and IE.  God knows my 28.8 modem suffered at the
> >>hands of many a 14MB IE upgrade.
> > 
> > I count myself as having led a charmed life. Before I got of the 28.8
> > modem, I got rid of M$. Of course, downloading all those slackware
> > floppies over a 28.8 modem was painfull...
> 
> 300 baud with acoustical coupling, but that was before my Linux days... 
>   My first Linux box had a 14.4 modem.

You should see my NEC Starlett laptop. 32k ram, 16k of rom, 300 baud
modem built in, wordstar, a database, comm program and spreadsheet
running on cpm. External data storage is with a cassette recorder. It
worked until batteries were left in it until they leaked. 

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