Pete! Posted July 8, 2021 Posted July 8, 2021 12 hours ago, securitybreach said: Actually happened to my grandfather. The existing teeth refused to get out of the way... Required surgery to remove the interlopers. 1 Quote
Bookmem Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 20 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Guess you don't remember "Prodigy" and local "bulletin boards". LOL Quote
securitybreach Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 16 minutes ago, Bookmem said: Guess you don't remember "Prodigy" and local "bulletin boards". LOL Â Um I was on Prodigy, Compuserv and Earthlink. I even ran a BBS at one time (thought I was super cool with two phone lines). Quote
securitybreach Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 At one point, I somehow managed to sign into Compuserv via Singapore and my mom had to talk her way out of a $3k phone bill. Needless to say, I could barely walk for a week. Â This was with a Tandy 1000 back in the 1980s. Quote
Bookmem Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 1 minute ago, securitybreach said:  Um I was on Prodigy, Compuserv and Earthlink. I even ran a BBS at one time (thought I was super cool with two phone lines). So you were on Social  1 minute ago, securitybreach said: At one point, I somehow managed to sign into Compuserv via Singapore and my mom had to talk her way out of a $3k phone bill. Needless to say, I could barely walk for a week.  This was with a Tandy 1000 back in the 1980s. So you were on Social Media in the 80s. I wrote a complete accounting system for a Men's and Ladies boutique in 1985 on an 8bit Z80 machine. Before the IBM XT became popular. Switched to a 286 clone with dual 20mb drives when they first came out. Did a sector by sector backup from one drive to the other every morning. 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Bookmem said: So you were on Social  So you were on Social Media in the 80s. I wrote a complete accounting system for a Men's and Ladies boutique in 1985 on an 8bit Z80 machine. Before the IBM XT became popular. Switched to a 286 clone with dual 20mb drives when they first came out. Did a sector by sector backup from one drive to the other every morning.  Very cool!! Quote
Bookmem Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 1 minute ago, securitybreach said:  Very cool!! Yeah, I finally had to use the Y2K scare to get them into getting a new system. It wouldn't really have effected the system because iit already used a numerical "so many days before or after 1900" to store dates, but I was really worried about supporting a system using hardware that old. Quote
securitybreach Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 Well by that time, I wasn't messing with computers as much. Those were my wild, glory days.... Quote
Bookmem Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 1 minute ago, securitybreach said: Well by that time, I wasn't messing with computers as much. Those were my wild, glory days.... It's the way I earned a living starting about 1978 till I retired in 2005. VBG Quote
securitybreach Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 Heck, that was the year I was born lol Quote
Bookmem Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 1 minute ago, securitybreach said: Heck, that was the year I was born lol Gotcha by almost 40 yrs. VBG 1 Quote
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