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________ No Silly, Senseless Ramblings in THIS file, man. Nope, just a
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/Rambel10\ bunch of nouns, and verbs and adjectives and phrases and
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\________/ clauses and adverbs and prepositions and.... ... . .. . .. . .
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by the way. read this. you mite get sumthin' outta it.
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Ghads. I haven't called a bulliten board in about 1.75 weeks, and now, at
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00:50:56 on July 3, 1987 (That's 12:50 AM) every board that I call is busy.
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All three of them. Heh. I used to be on a lot of boards, until by some rare
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chance I found the number to [The Works!] advertised in a text-file. That
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file was taken off of some small, witty operation of an AE somewhere in the
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mountain time region of the US. It was jumbled up and most of it was
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unreadable, except for the first line, which said, "Call the Thieve's World
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AE Line at 914-238-8195". So I gave it a call, expecting to connect to an
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Apple's AE, but instead I was connected with Jason Scott's board. Since then
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I've become a sysop of the board, made personal friends with a few callers, and
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now call a whole other world of boards. Namely, The Works, of course, and also
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The Dark Side of the Moon (the number is <408>/245-SPAM.), which I don't even
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call that often, even though Pink Floyd is one of my favorite groups. And
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the third and newest board is the Progressive Underground Dissidents, and you
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can call it too at <313>/433-3164. Before those boards, I called things like
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Pirate-80 (which I had better call tommorow to see if Scan Man threw me off
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yet or not; I haven't been on in 2 months), Cygnus, Epson Citadel (my favorite
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board since the day I called it in 1984. All of the members were good
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friends, and once a year we went to Geauga Lake [a local amusement park] and
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occasionally went to movies, etc., but in late May the sysop got a Leading
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Edge PC compat with everything, and sold his Epson. So the board went down.
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For a while all of us called each other and there was word of putting the
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board up on the Leading Edge, but I doubt it will happen. The sysop is 23 and
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has his own life to live. Most of the users are either going into college, out
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of town for the summer, or are no longer interested in modeming. And now
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none of the users talk to each other, either. It's wierd, being that we were
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such good friends while it was up. That's one of the funny things about
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people. I actually thought that we were all such good friends, but I can
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see now that it doesn't really matter to anyone anymore (me included). But
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the memories are still there. Where was I? Oh, yeah, the other boards I
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used to call. Well, there were a few phreak boards like Phreak Klass 2600
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(I can't call it anymore because it's only 300 baud and I really don't have
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the time for that), Ctrl-C's board, Phantasie Realm (I stopped calling that
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because I got _total_ line noise at 1200. But I never had the time to call
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Ctrl-C and tell him why I stopped calling. I bet he hates me...), and 2600
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Magazine's Private Sector. I had called some local hack boards, namely
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The Underworld Elite //, Samhain, and The Wastelands, until last summer when
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one was busted, one's computer broke, and the last one got tired of hacking.
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Also, I called the 2300 Club boards until one member turned into a nark and
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the rest of the Club split up, and King Blotto left for college. There were
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some other good boards (like No Bullsheet, and Med-Net ][+).
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I feel like I should start a new paragraph, since all of you are probably
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terribly bored by now. But I feel that I have to put this in a text file,
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because any day now I might just drop out of computing forever. My computer
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broke last week and I just got it back from Basic Computer yesterday. But
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it's not my computer breaking that's making me think that I'm going to hang
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up the phone forever, but it's that I'm changing (not, I'm NOT turning into
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a werewolf), and I want to do a LOT more in my life, so I don't have time to
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put all the dedication into computers. Sure, I could call maybe once a week,
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but then I wouldn't be the respected, intelligent user I was before, but I'd
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be your typical "Blue Buccaneer" or "Peter Pirate". Well, maybe not THAT bad,
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but I wouldn't fit in right, and one day you'd see me, and then you'd never
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see me call that board again. I'd be just another name on a boards "Last Five
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Caller List". And I don't want to bother if that's all that it'll do. And
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I surely don't have time for hacking anymore, but it's too bad, because right
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before I changed (jeesh, I'm making this sound like I had an operation or
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something) in May, I had found some serious shit, including bell unixes, the
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Ohio Department of Motor Vehicle's number, and others. But I simply
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can't get into it, because I need my time. And I just thought of something.
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When the movie "WarGames" came out in 1983, I said, "W0w! I want to be a
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c00l hacker, too11!!!". And then I bought an IBM and a modem (a 300 baud
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VolksModem. Yech). And when I called the "hack/phreak" boards, all of the
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newcomers (including me) were laughed at and called "Members of the WarGames
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Generation"... and some of those people had aliases like "The Game Doctor",
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"Beaver Moken" and "The Formater" (spelled wrong), the first one was 14, the
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second 15 and the third was 16 at the time. But I looked up to them. I had
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just turned 13 and had a 2600 hertz voice. And now I look back at how long
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ago that was, and how much I've learned. Heck, the only reason I bought my
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modem and computer was in hopes to change my grades and find NORAD's
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defense computer, but now I use it so differently. And half of the "phreaks"
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out there today never even saw WarGames when it came out... that was the
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pre-Cyndi Lauper (girls just wanna have fun, funky synthesizers, valley girls,
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and Bruce Springsteen) era. At the time, the hit songs were "Let's Get
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Physical", "Dirty Laundry", and "Pac Man Fever" (seriously). Video arcades
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were the big hit, and I remember one dance songs' lyrics as "you're living in
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the shade of a video arcade". Sheesh. Things have really changed.
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By the way, I forgot to put a header that the beginnning of the file! Oh
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well, I'm not going to bother going back and editing it, so... this is good
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old "RAMBLE10.TXT", my third in this series. I first wrote Ramble7, then
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Ramble8. Yep, it's me, --TeeSee.
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Well, I'll take a break in the action and call the PUD. If it's busy, I'll
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erase this line and continue. If not, I'll chat with Mr. Pez, and that means
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that I'll finish this file later.
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Hmm. It's now 7-3-87, 7:53 pm. Last night I called PUD, but didn't chat with
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Pez since it was 2 - 3 o'clock in the morning, and so he was asleep. This is
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all highly irrelevant to the file, however. So I'll now continue. Right now
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WMMS (the station voted America's #1 rock-n-roll station for 8 years in a
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row) is playing the Firecracker 500 top songs in the history of rock-n-roll.
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Right now they're at 400 something, which just happens to be "Love Walks In"
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by Van Halen. You can call the station, their number is <216>/578-1007.
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"So when you sense a change
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nothing feels the same
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All your dreams are strange,
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Love comes walkin' in
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Some kind of alien
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Waits for the opening
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Them simply pulls a string, Love
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Comes walkin' in"
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--- Sammy, Edward, Alex and Michael
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Whooa. There's a bunch of dark clouds above. It's gonna STORM. It seems as
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if every Fourth of July weekend it rains. Oh well. I'll continue a little
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later when I have something of importance to say. And if I'm boring you, don't
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worry. It gets better. Talk to you later.
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-:-
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