On 16 Jun 2006 at 11:37, "Lord Voldemort" <lordbishopvoldemort(a)gmail.com> wrote: AOL as a source of "oldbies"? The *serious* oldbie crowd regards them as the biggest source of clueless newbies! And Windows (whatever version) just brought more crowds of people too computer illiterate to handle a command line interface. No, the *real* oldbies were the ones who used computers without a wimpy graphical interface... maybe a printing terminal using a modem switchable between 110 baud and the "high-speed" 300 (like they had at the high school I attended in the early '80s)... or even punch cards (like they also used when I was in high school, taking a class in Fortran). -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/