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PROTOCOL: ALT
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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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03/03/93 00:04:33
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 229051; next msg =46118; 380 active msgs.
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Prev. call 03/01/93 @ 22:50, next msg was 46112
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to ab
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 11
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KILLED. 13
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SUMMARY. 25
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03/01/93,22:51:03,229039,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#46112,
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E#46113,
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E#46114,
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E#46115,26
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03/01/93,23:29:57,229040,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,4
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03/02/93,02:18:06,229041,1,ROY LIPSCOMB,,
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E#46116,10
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03/02/93,04:40:54,229042,2,TOM KOWALCZYK,,3
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03/02/93,07:41:08,229043,2,RANDAL CRAIG,,10
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03/02/93,07:52:05,229044,2,NICK WYATT,Chicago/ ILL,8
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03/02/93,13:43:10,229045,2,DENNIS STAHL,,3
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03/02/93,15:42:44,229046,2,S S,il,
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03/02/93,16:29:38,229047,1,PHIL BOLD,,7
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]Still a great board. Nice to get back for a visit. Keep up the good
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work.
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PHIL BOLD,
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03/02/93,20:52:33,229048,2,ALEX ZELL,,
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03/02/93,22:50:01,229049,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,
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E#46117,10
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03/02/93,23:03:34,229050,2,JIM DOYLE,,3
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03/03/93,00:04:37,229051,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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46112 03/01/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => MIKE ISAACS: "INTERNET"
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46113 03/01/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => CHAD FLETCHER: "BBS LISTS"
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46114 03/01/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JANET BALAS: "IN THE BEGINNING."
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46115 03/01/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "(CONT'D)"
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46116 03/02/93 ROY LIPSCOMB => TONY ANTONUCCI: "PHOTOS"
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46117 03/02/93 MICHAEL SHARTIAG => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/CARPAL TUNNEL?"
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- End of summary -
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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
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Msg 46112 is 08 line(s) on 03/01/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to MIKE ISAACS re: INTERNET
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Hope you don't mine me changing the subject from "Welcome" to "Internet",
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seems more appropriate.
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Please define what you mean by "ON" the internet. Do you want to do
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anonymous FTP, telnet, rlogin, etc? Or just be able to send and receive
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email from other folks?
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Fellow CBBS-inventor Randy Suess runs a Unix system, but he may be
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shutting off access- seems he has some problems with his internet feed,
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and may have to "buy" one and limit access.
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Msg 46113 is 04 line(s) on 03/01/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to CHAD FLETCHER re: BBS LISTS
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Used to have one here, but sorry, don't have it any longer. I went
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into Magellan to search on "bbs list msg" and found a hig:
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"call Stillwaters BBS (708-403-2826)"
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They have the list we used to carry.
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Msg 46114 is 30 line(s) on 03/01/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to JANET BALAS re: IN THE BEGINNING.
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Gee, I'm getting Carpal Tunnel answering that question, seems the 15th
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anniversary is generating a lot of "tell me how it all started" messages,
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heh. Sorry if that came across negative. I should have a "canned answer"
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for you, but I don't.
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Actually it all began simply because the technology was there - i.e.
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Randy Suess (co-inventor) and I each had an "extra" machine, Hayes had
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come up with a hobbyist modem that could be computer controlled, and I
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had the skills to write the thousands of lines of assembly language code
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to make it all happen.
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I conceived it as strictly a message system, in spite of the fact that I'd
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invented what became the XMODEM protocol about 6 months before. This
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was because file transfers would be a significant impedement to the folks
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wanting to do messaging. To this day, this system still doesn't support
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file transfers (except for myself to back it up or upload new versions of
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the software).
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As to how it has changed over time, well, THIS system is a bit of history
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and really HASN'T changed over time.
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I have a lot of ideas for the future - for example, why not allow true
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"meetings" to be done electronically. Lets take a computer club for
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example. Ours has a "random access" period in which people can talk about
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anything they want, then we have a formal speaker - or a panel of club
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members, etc.
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So, I ask myself: can this be done ONLINE? It would have the advantage
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of being more ecological - people not having to drive - and could be done
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in a way that a real meeting couldn't - i.e. it is often too hard for
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"everyone to make it on the same day and same time". Folks could prepare
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"presentations", with the BBS downloading graphics, etc. In an "ideal"
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environment, they could make annotations on the graphics, or point to
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something and ask a question, etc.
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<cont'd>
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Msg 46115 is 22 line(s) on 03/01/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: (CONT'D)
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<cont'd>
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Thus the idea is, you could, via BBS, take something that exists in
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"real life", and make it more accessible (people need not even live
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in the same area nor be in the same time-zone). Handicapped people are
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particularly freed by BBSs - we had a guy on CBBS for years when it
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came out that he is deaf - yet really a full BBS participant. (not
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that it solves ALL handicapped problems - though one day I did help a
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blind guy get a speech synthesizer going on his computer, so he could
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participate in the BBSs).
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Libraries: Hmmm. There could be an effort to find the BBSs that
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specialize - such as a geneological based BBS. There are many BBSs
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dedicated to specialized hobbies - not all are sort of "pure computer
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geek" oriented like this one.
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My first job was in a library - we rented the upper flat in the family
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two-flat to the local librarian, and I worked there for a couple
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enjoyable years. My how things have changed - from a totally paper
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card catalog, etc - to - well, I guess it depends upon the budget what
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the limit is. I imagine some day libraries - at least their reference
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abilities - will be replaced by CD Roms and "jukebox" players - people
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can search electronically very quickly, and pull off citations electronically
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perhaps to a diskette for inclusion in their word processors, etc.
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Msg 46116 is 05 line(s) on 03/02/93 from ROY LIPSCOMB
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to TONY ANTONUCCI re: PHOTOS
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Tony, the photos look good, espcially the one of Marie. Now if I
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can only get them printed. (CSHOW doesn't have that option
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in the unregistered version; I haven't tried VPIC yet.)
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Boy, being on a computer monitor is almost as good as being on TV!
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Msg 46117 is 08 line(s) on 03/02/93 from MICHAEL SHARTIAG
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/CARPAL TUNNEL?
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Ward,
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I don't have any idea what the ideal height is, but from the typing
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wrist suports I have seen, they sit infront of the keyboard, and are
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basically level with the height of the keyboard case. Quill, Office
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World ( Max this week?) all have these things. Some have adjustable height
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It sounds like tendon infalamation, buy hey, " I'm not a real doctor, but
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I play one on TV." Thats where I ended up; with a brace and anti-
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inflamitory drugs.
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dup. chars.
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>Function:?
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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
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03/03/93 23:17:24
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Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
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?^U
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?^U
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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
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Logging name to disk...
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You are caller 229059; next msg =46120; 373 active msgs.
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Prev. call 03/03/93 @ 00:04, next msg was 46118
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Recording logon for next time.
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Use FULL? to check assignments
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?^U
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?xxxxx
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"Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
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LOG. 11
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KILLED. 17
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SUMMARY. 25
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29051,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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E#46118,8
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03/03/93,08:25:03,229052,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,
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03/03/93,10:25:11,229053,1,JERRY HASLETT,,
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03/03/93,10:32:01,229054,1,JERRY HASLETT,,9
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03/03/93,13:58:16,229055,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1
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03/03/93,14:45:18,229056,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2
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03/03/93,15:29:22,229057,2,BILL MICHAELS,Chicago IL,6
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03/03/93,22:26:09,229058,2,JANET BALAS,,
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E#46119,15
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03/03/93,23:17:28,229059,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
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46118 03/03/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF"
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46119 03/03/93 JANET BALAS => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/IN THE BEGINNING."
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Msg 46118 is 22 line(s) on 03/03/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
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to ALL re: TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF
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HI. CBBS usage is going down - partly because of the long time it was
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down, but partly because it is somewhat "boring". Well, lets start by
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telling a little about ourselves.
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I guess I'm willing to talk TODAY, because this week IBM did some massive
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cuts - I think St Louis went form 800 to 425 or something like that! I
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don't know about Chicago - only know of two people who actually were
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declared "surplus", but I'm sure the number is more in the dozens if not
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hundreds.
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I am happy to say I "made the cut" so WILL be able to celebrate my
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25th anniversary with IBM this June 17th, in spite of the fact that budget
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cuts have done away with the somewhat extravagant dinner they used to
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throw. I think I'll just ask some friends to come to the BangKok Thai
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restaurant to help me celebrate.
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I will be working with the Media and Distribution industry segments
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(RR Donnelley, Leo Burnette, Jewel, Dominicks, WW Granger, and a list of
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a dozen or so) and will specialize in high-end servers (minimum 486).
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IBM re-accounted something related to vacations this year, so I would
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now have 12.5 EXTRA days to take! Not bad! Time to start putting in
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some 4 days weeks (i.e. only 40 hours, not 50, heh).
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So, tell "us" about you! What are you "into"? Work, hobby, whatever.
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Hobby-wise, I'm into C programming, enjoy toying with Ray tracing programs,
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CAD, etc, and am a "Lantastic" fan.
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Msg 46119 is 08 line(s) on 03/03/93 from JANET BALAS
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to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/IN THE BEGINNING.
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Ward,
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Thanks for the help. I'm sorry if I'm one of many inquiring minds,
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but I do appreciate your taking the time to talk about the start of
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your system. I am still amazed by the possibilities that telecommunica-
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tions opens up and see my profession as a librarian changing radically
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in the near future. Unlike many of my colleagues, I am excited by the
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changes and anxious to help others utilize the technology effectively.
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Thanks again, Janet
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