[Jeff Gordon]

can remember subscribing to "Chicago On Line" before it became America on line.

I can remember using IBM's Call 360 time sharing sysstem at home using a Seletric terminal. That was in 1970. The Seletric Terminal steamed along at 13.5 CPS while the rest of the world was stuck with Teletype Terminals at 10 CPS.

[djf]

Jeepers! Ya got me beat! I remember playing the old Star Trek on the teletype machines on the Univac back in '73 or so.

Red ALert!!!! Red Alert!!!!

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Now I do mainframes (IBM) z/OS.

This whole Microsoft thing's getting my goat. I installed XP onto a smaller laptop, then decided to pop the hard drive into a faster laptop, it gave me activation grief, so I just went back to the older machine. Now I'm scared to change anything on the sucker (I have DVD player I could put in, but the heck with it.)

I take machines apart and put them together and reconstruct them all the time. So now I gotta call Redmond and get permission every time? I don't think so, Tim. Hell, I'll put Linux on it.