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1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service
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| 09/10/2004
| Scott Ott
Posted on 09/10/2004 5:13:36 AM PDT by joeyGibson
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To: Mamzelle
21
posted on
09/10/2004 5:48:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Kerry can't run on his record, so George Bush is going to.....)
To: Ed_in_NJ
Only the PDP-7 had it, too.....
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posted on
09/10/2004 5:50:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Kerry can't run on his record, so George Bush is going to.....)
To: woofer2425
Unfortunately, the emails have been hard to locate because of a virus/worm...
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posted on
09/10/2004 5:51:24 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
I want to see the headers on this set of emails, someone please fax me a copy.
24
posted on
09/10/2004 6:02:50 AM PDT
by
Rick.Donaldson
(There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: Red Badger
Only the PDP-7 had it, too.....
I learned to program (FOCAL) on a DEC PDP-8 in 1969-1970. Our output was to a wide carriage teletype machine. No hi-res capabilites there! Any "networking" was done by directing a closed circuit TV camera on the Teletype and feeding the signal to the monitors in individual classrooms
25
posted on
09/10/2004 6:33:49 AM PDT
by
Knute
To: joeyGibson
It looks authentic. They have the screen shot...
It just doesn't get any more real than that.
26
posted on
09/10/2004 6:52:19 AM PDT
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: Knute
Did you have problems with the PDP's overheating? Ours would run for about 2 hours and we'd have to stop and cool them down! Whew! Man, those machines were FAST! And the Floppies were 8 inches across!
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posted on
09/10/2004 6:53:22 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Kerry can't run on his record, so George Bush is going to.....)
To: Rebel_Ace
28
posted on
09/10/2004 6:53:45 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: joeyGibson
LOL! This story has already ran the entire gamut.
1.Shocking New documents
2.Documents shown to be forged
3.Parody of MSM's silliness.
And all this has taken place as the first part has just got printed in today's newspapers. The dino media is so out of step.
29
posted on
09/10/2004 6:56:39 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(http://www.scifiartposters.com)
To: Rebel_Ace; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Radix; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LaDivaLoca; Fawnn; ...
LOL. Canteeners, check the "screen shot" in reply #26. Too funny.
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posted on
09/10/2004 7:03:39 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Charter member of the VRWC - and proud of it.)
To: airborne
Al Gore invented the e-mail. Yeah. They were originally going to mention that in "Love Story", but the movie was too long, so they had to cut it out.
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posted on
09/10/2004 7:28:44 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
To: Rebel_Ace; Arrowhead1952
ROFLMAO - thanks for the ping Arrowhead!!!
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posted on
09/10/2004 7:30:06 AM PDT
by
StarCMC
(It's God's job to forgive Bin Laden, it's our job to arrange the meeting.)
To: Red Badger
Did you have problems with the PDP's overheating? Ours would run for about 2 hours and we'd have to stop and cool them down! Whew! Man, those machines were FAST! And the Floppies were 8 inches across!
Floppies?? Our I/O was via ticker tape! I think we might have had 4K of RAM available. This was a high school honors course. You had to have specific permission from the department chairman to even enter the room! I don't remember any cooling issues, but there may have been...
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posted on
09/10/2004 9:05:46 AM PDT
by
Knute
To: Arrowhead1952
All this stuff makes me thankful that I'm not an nuanced intellectual. There *are* times when "just the facts" comes in handy! LOL!!!
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posted on
09/10/2004 11:09:43 AM PDT
by
Fawnn
(Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
To: Knute
Heh heh. All these memories of old computers. In 1969 I used our school's AT&T teletype to run game programs from the school's on line account on an IBM 360. I poked around the program (written in BASIC) and changed some of the code to see what would happen. That summer my friend and I used the teletype in his basement (his Dad worked for AT&T) and accessed the same account. So I guess I was one of the first hackers.
I used a Univac in college, and by the end of college (1978), the dorms had PDP8s. I also had a TI-51 programmable calculator. You could enter up to 100 statements! It might have had 1K of memory.
At work, in 1978, I had access to 4 IBM 370's--3 with 4 MB of RAM and one with 2 MB of RAM. The TRS80 came out in 1980 and I decided if a PC ever 1 MB of RAM, I would buy it. In 1987 I bought an HP 286 machine. It was the most expensive PC I've ever bought. It cost $2600 and that is with a 40% employee discount.
My first email was in 1984 or 1985. We wrote the program. The PC's routed the mail through the mainframe.
I think the first email was in the 70's, but late 70's not early. But of course, the DNC doesn't know and doesn't care.
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posted on
09/11/2004 7:43:46 AM PDT
by
Forgiven_Sinner
(The Passion of the Christ--the top non-fiction movie of all time)
To: Forgiven_Sinner
Geez, and I thought I was an early email user... I got email first in about 1986 on local BBSes. With FidoNet, you could send emails to others, but not many people were online. In 1988, at college at WPI, I got internet email.
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posted on
09/11/2004 7:48:01 AM PDT
by
Koblenz
(Not bad, not bad at all. -- Ronald Reagan, the Greatest President.)
To: joeyGibson
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