04-06-2002 23:24									#61
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	05-06-2002 01:23									#62
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It's their way to show off. Anybody having been here so long has no life anyway and deserves to get what little compensation that brings their doubtlessly fragile egos.

	05-06-2002 02:20									#63
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quote: Originally posted by vmxa1 I do not recall any modems in 1969? I had just gotten out of the Navy in 1968 where I was a computer tech and worked in a data center for a retail store on a 360-30. It was a long time later when I finally got to a 300 baud acoustic coupled modem.

Mainframe connected to the ARPAnet

	05-06-2002 02:23									#64
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quote: Originally posted by moominparatrooper It's their way to show off. Anybody having been here so long has no life anyway and deserves to get what little compensation that brings their doubtlessly fragile egos.

There, there. No need to act jealous, Eurocom.

	05-06-2002 03:29									#65
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RPM, if you mean my age, 1-27-46.

I m no expert on the net, but no ordinary business had modems in 1969. BBN had only made the transport in August of 1969. In essence, net did not existed before that, except on paper. UCLA, I think was first one. I would not be surprised to learn some in the loop shops had prototypes. I know mainframes connected to the net as there was nothing but mainframes at the time. The first IBM distributed system came in the 70's as I recall. I started training for computer maint in 1965, in a Navy school after seeing them the year before at Navy base.

	05-06-2002 04:55									#66
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Only DOD and science centers connected at that time. I was a scientist and military officer.

	05-06-2002 15:05									#67
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GP, I had you pegged in the 25-30 bracket, but that's clearly not the case... Give!

	05-06-2002 17:45									#68
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quote: Originally posted by vmxa1 RPM, if you mean my age, 1-27-46. I m no expert on the net, but no ordinary business had modems in 1969. BBN had only made the transport in August of 1969. In essence, net did not existed before that, except on paper. UCLA, I think was first one. I would not be surprised to learn some in the loop shops had prototypes. I know mainframes connected to the net as there was nothing but mainframes at the time. The first IBM distributed system came in the 70's as I recall. I started training for computer maint in 1965, in a Navy school after seeing them the year before at Navy base.

Naw, I was shooting for GPs on the '69. I suspected mid 1950's for GP. I already had a good idea on yours because of your earlier posts.

	05-06-2002 17:47									#69
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quote: Originally posted by moominparatrooper GP, I had you pegged in the 25-30 bracket, but that's clearly not the case... Give!

Moom, no way he's that young. He posts with some youthful exuberance, but if you read between the lines, the wisdom shows through.

	05-06-2002 20:48									#70
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I'm 36. I was a precosious 4 year old...

	05-06-2002 21:02									#71
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quote: Originally posted by GP I'm 36. I was a precosious 4 year old...

Ha-Ha...yeah right! So the Dec '69 is from....? Can't remember anything seriously monumental happening in that time frame?

	05-06-2002 22:34									#72
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.....learning fast?

-=Vel=-

	06-06-2002 00:09									#73
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Obviously a prodigy, our GP.

	06-06-2002 02:00									#74
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Maybe Alan will work on the strat guide for Moo3, that I woul like to see.

	06-06-2002 02:06									#75
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I guess in all seriousness he would to a good job on it. He's a great guide writer in general...and in this case, he's got lots of insder knowledge. I'd be surprised if the orginal plan wasn't for him to write the strat guide. (nice synergy). Of course, given the way he exitted, it's hard not to think that both he and QS may be a little bitter. Not sure if that would impact the strat guide...

	06-06-2002 02:11									#76
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Yeah, seems like a long shot for Alan to write the strat guide at this point.

Perhaps an inofficial one, though?

	06-06-2002 02:19									#77
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I'd be much more interested in the "kiss and tell" version of what happened during development...

	06-06-2002 02:39									#78
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So you'll have to by the Limited Edition for the designer notes, won't you?

	06-06-2002 10:35									#79
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GP, quit teasing them! On Feb 15, 1999 Dan & Mark switched from the shareware version of UBB to the professional version of UBB. For some reason, date of registration could not be carried over with other profile data.

If you look in the Archives you'll see the converted UBB HTML pages show older registration dates as "b. 2-15-99." On conversion to vBulletin the "default" registration is Dec 69, apparently some date connected with the founding of Arpanet.

	06-06-2002 14:37									#80
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Well, the Unix Era begins at 00:00:01 January 1st, 1970, so that's what a lot of servers default to for time - even Windows ones. I took it for granted that was it.

And I think you longtimer guys deserve it - as a recognition for long and ardent duty, eh?

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	06-06-2002 22:49									#81
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It was tough back in the old ARPAnet days. Sometimes we'd go years without a reply to our posts. (Busily refreshing the browser text screen every 5 minutes...hoping to hear from someone.)

	07-06-2002 12:50									#82
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quote: Originally posted by GP It was tough back in the old ARPAnet days. Sometimes we'd go years without a reply to our posts. (Busily refreshing the browser text screen every 5 minutes...hoping to hear from someone.)

ROFLMAO
Damn you, I got diet coke all over my monitor thanks to joke about the good old days. Of course I do remember my early Usenet days 1980 when you would actually wait days for a reply to a post.

	25-05-2003 07:07									#83
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Sometimes years can go by, before a post is replied to...

	28-05-2003 15:01									#84
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Good grief GP!!!!

	28-05-2003 15:29									#85
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This is enough now really GP.

-Jam

	02-06-2003 07:40									#86
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I once read Steven Levy good book called Hackers in which Hacking start in MIT in the late 1950's at the Tech Model Railroad Club where the first computer hacker appear. Also they make the first computer game.

	02-06-2003 11:40									#87
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That's one hella bump there GP

How long have you been sitting on this one?

	05-06-2003 04:36									#88
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I yam the Archivist!