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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / November 2004OT: Gmail anyone?
Does anybody want a Gmail (google's web-based email, 1GB of storage!) account? Email me and I'll send you an invitation to activate one.  SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Does anybody want a Gmail (google's web-based email, 1GB of storage!) > account? Email me and I'll send you an invitation to activate one. Nah, Yahoo's 100mb is enough for me - since i download pretty much every day, I don't need mammoth storage. <oldie> Back in my day I remember a 40mb hard drive was as close to infinitely large as you could possibly get. I mean, how on earth could you possibly fill up 40 *megabytes*? Phwoah that was huge. Even 20mb was pretty darn good, and just having a hard drive was still on the nifty side :-) Those were the days you'd leave the modem going overnight to download something cool, and the sixteen colour EGA was just *so* lifelike. Still, in terms of fun per byte, nothing can beat a Commodore 64, I'd *still* be playing Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy if I could get my hands on it (and the commodore to play it on). You kids just don't know how good you've got it.... </oldie> Yowie > terms of fun per byte, nothing can beat a Commodore 64, I'd *still* be > playing Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy if I could get my hands on it http://search.ebay.com/commodore-64_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8 > (and the commodore to play it on). You kids just don't know how good you've > got it.... </oldie> Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. At school we had Apples and Macintoshes, I remember buying my first 1.44 MB diskette (just one) that contained the Macintosh OS, applications and all my files. SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> terms of fun per byte, nothing can beat a Commodore 64, I'd *still* >> be playing Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy if I could get my [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov > Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com *My* first computer was a Tandy TRS80 (or Trash80)... I was still in HS at the time, and it actually was my brothers... but I used it when he was off to the military. No HD, only (external) tape & 5.25" floppy.... and an external modem that was maybe 4 baud! --? The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)? email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:47:46 GMT, "Magic Mood Jeep©" <nobody@nowhere.net> yodeled: >>> terms of fun per byte, nothing can beat a Commodore 64, I'd *still* >>> be playing Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy if I could get my [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >to the military. No HD, only (external) tape & 5.25" floppy.... and an >external modem that was maybe 4 baud! Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) Ahh... good ol' BitNet. I used to be an operator in the BitNet version of IRC... what was it called? My nickname was Odie back then... :) SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > > Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) > > Ahh... good ol' BitNet. I used to be an operator in the BitNet version > of IRC... what was it called? My nickname was Odie back then... :) Dunno Bitnet, but I do know Fidonet and GTnet. On one of the boards, I was known as "Eva.B", that was a bulletin board down in Melbourne (1000km away), and even though my modem was ripping fast (at 1200 baud), I was still stuck with the phone bill of masses of long distance calls - nearly $2000. The internet has certainly changed that - you dial into your ISP and can access files anywhere in the world, back then, you had to dial the BBS they resided on. Gosh, times have changed... Even cybersex was new and interesting back then... now its just more spam :-) Yowie > Ahh... good ol' BitNet. I used to be an operator in the BitNet version > of IRC... what was it called? My nickname was Odie back then... :) I could use a Gmail invite :-) Used to run a Bitnet gateway bak when. Know a person who had Apranet access in 1974 (his college was connected). Norm -- "The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've got." <via Nat King Cole > I could use a Gmail invite :-) Used to run a Bitnet gateway bak when. I just ran out of invites. However, I think each new user gets to invite 6 people, so maybe one of the folks that got gmails from me has one to spare? SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > > I could use a Gmail invite :-) Used to run a Bitnet gateway bak when. > > I just ran out of invites. However, I think each new user gets to invite > 6 people, so maybe one of the folks that got gmails from me has one to > spare? No problem, I'll send him one. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) > >Ahh... good ol' BitNet. I used to be an operator in the BitNet version >of IRC... what was it called? My nickname was Odie back then... :) OMG, we must be ancient. I remember sending email from a terminal on a mainframe that ran Vax and VMS. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > >> Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > OMG, we must be ancient. I remember sending email from a terminal on > a mainframe that ran Vax and VMS. ;) I remember vaxen. Yowie >> >> Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) >> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Yowie You must, if you know the correct plural. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:47:46 GMT, "Magic Mood Jeep©" > <nobody@nowhere.net> yodeled: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >> MB diskette (just one) that contained the Macintosh OS, applications > >> and all my files. > >*My* first computer was a Tandy TRS80 (or Trash80)... I was still in HS at > >the time, and it actually was my brothers... but I used it when he was off > >to the military. No HD, only (external) tape & 5.25" floppy.... and an > >external modem that was maybe 4 baud! > > Yeah? I remember Arpanet and Bitnet!! ;) Oh yeah?? My first computer was nothing but one strand of copper wire, a punch card and an abacus! Personally autographed by Charles Babbage! ;-)) Deb. Signaturehttp://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:47:46 GMT, "Magic Mood Jeep©" >> <nobody@nowhere.net> yodeled: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Deb. Bwahahahahahahhahahaha! My first computer was Stonehenge! ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > >> terms of fun per byte, nothing can beat a Commodore 64, I'd *still* > >> be playing Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy if I could get my [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > to the military. No HD, only (external) tape & 5.25" floppy.... and an > external modem that was maybe 4 baud! My BF of the time had a TRS80, tape drive and a green screen. He lent it to me for a few weeks and I had so much fun playing Lunar Lander and Mucking about with Eliza, but my favourite thing of all was "Chicken" - a game much like frogger but infinitely cooler. The best thing about those programs was that they were all open source, you could read every single one if you wanted to. Not that I did, because I couldn't understand it at the time, but I do remember typing pages and pages of instructions into the C64, and spending *months* trying to de-typo the stupid thing. Never did get it to run properly - but thats when people still published the source code of the their game in magazines. *Sigh*. Damn, I'm getting old :-) Yowie >> >> terms of fun per byte, nothing can beat a Commodore 64, I'd *still* >> >> be playing Wizball, Bubble Bobble and Wonderboy if I could get my [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >me for a few weeks and I had so much fun playing Lunar Lander and Mucking >about with Eliza How do you feel about that? :P Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com " > > Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. At > > school we had Apples and Macintoshes, I remember buying my first 1.44 > > MB diskette (just one) that contained the Macintosh OS, applications > > and all my files. Magic Mood Jeep©" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:6Fwod.378858$wV.287435@attbi_s54 > *My* first computer was a Tandy TRS80 (or Trash80)... I was still in HS at > the time, and it actually was my brothers... but I used it when he was off > to the military. No HD, only (external) tape & 5.25" floppy.... and an > external modem that was maybe 4 baud! LMAO! My first computer was at school, and was a BBC Micro with a normal tape recorder that used audio tapes! You'd have to start everything by writing >RUN ;o) Helen M >" >> > Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. At [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >You'd have to start everything by writing >RUN ;o) I had the use of an IBM 1620 one summer. You started everything by putting the card deck into the hopper and typing the loader code on the console (I've forgotten the magic numbers - it's been 38 years). You signed up for machine time by writing your name at the bottom of the list. When you got to the top of the list you could run your job. Eleven years later I got a SwTPC 6800 microcomputer, which was faster than that old 1620 not to mention being smaller and cheaper by roughly a factor of 500. I thought it was great to get floppy disks to replace audio cassette tape. Not long ago I visited a computer center that had been built about 1980. The machine room, which once was wall-to-wall with computers, had just a few lonely looking cabinets sitting in the center, but more than the same amount of computing power. ObRPCA: Whitey the cat loved to sleep on top of the nice, warm SWTPC computer, which was about 18" square. Poor Whitey developed feline leukemia. He was a large, white-and-ginger tom who was in love with anyone who sat in one particular recliner. He would knead the reclining one's chest, purr loudly and drool with pleasure. He was the only drooling cat I've ever had. > >" > >> > Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > putting the card deck into the hopper and typing the loader code on > the console (I've forgotten the magic numbers - it's been 38 years). OK, you got me. The 1620 was the predecessor of the 1130. I can remember the first word of the PDP-11 bootstrap loader was (octal) 016701, but have forgotten the rest. > You signed up for machine time by writing your name at the bottom of > the list. When you got to the top of the list you could run your job. > Eleven years later I got a SwTPC 6800 microcomputer, which was faster > than that old 1620 not to mention being smaller and cheaper by roughly > a factor of 500. I thought it was great to get floppy disks to > replace audio cassette tape. > Not long ago I visited a computer center that had been built about > 1980. The machine room, which once was wall-to-wall with computers, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > reclining one's chest, purr loudly and drool with pleasure. He was > the only drooling cat I've ever had. In article <af313de43fd913515979c05703348b6d.76411@mygate.mailgate.org>, "Helen Miles" <helen.miles@virgin.net> wrote: > " > > > Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Helen M IBM 1130, with 16 K of RAM, a half-meg disk, and taking up a moderate sized office. > IBM 1130, with 16 K of RAM, a half-meg disk, and taking up a moderate > sized office. I didn't actually see the one we used when I took my first computer course. The closest I got was this room in the bowels of the Arts building with rows of machines where you punched all the cards you needed for your program and handed them over the counter at one end of the room. Eventually, they were returned with reams of paper showing that you went wrong *somewhere*, but not where or in what. I think we had an early equivalent of local email, using terminals, too. First one I bought for myself was a Coleco Adam, sold off cheap when a toy company discovered they couldn't make money manufacturing computers. I got a *lot* of use out of that. It came with a word processing program that I used frequently, a few very simple games, and used Coleco tapes for storage and new programs. Actually, if you drilled a little hole it the right place in the case, regular audio tapes did just fine. Next were the 'IBM compatibles'. 286s, 386s, etc. About the same time as I reluctantly consigned the Adam to a fellow-user looking for parts, I suspect, and replaced it with my first 'regular' computer, I also started working somewhere that had 286s and WP 5.1!! How new and powerful it looked - until we tried to do more and more with it. SignatureCheryl *My* first computer was a Victor(PC clone), I still have it, someday I'll resurrect data from 5.25" floppies (he said hopefully). The first computer I programmed was a 1620 at NYU <mumble> years ago. I started as an operator trainnee on 3rd shift at IBM in White Plains, cough, forty years ago and began compiling on the 1410 almost immediately. My tale is that they promoted me to programmer to get their machines back. -- "The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've got." <via Nat King Cole > " >>> Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Helen M I've still got my BBC Micro in the loft, I got the model A and upgraded it to B and added a 5?" floppy drive. >> " >>>> Hehehehe... my first computer was a Commodore 16 with a tape drive. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I've still got my BBC Micro in the loft, I got the model A and upgraded > it to B and added a 5?" floppy drive. Unless it has a sentimental value, you could now get it out of the loft and take it to the tip ;-) Make more room. Tweed (sorry, hard decision) Tweed >> Does anybody want a Gmail (google's web-based email, 1GB of storage!) >> account? Email me and I'll send you an invitation to activate one. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >(and the commodore to play it on). You kids just don't know how good you've >got it.... </oldie> Yep I have fond memories of my C-64, which was actually my second 'puter since Istarted out with a Vic 20. I used to belong to a Commodore user group back when such groups were going concerns. Also have not so fond memories of typing in programs from magazines back before they started including checksums to catch some of the typos ;-) SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html > Yep I have fond memories of my C-64, which was actually my second > 'puter since Istarted out with a Vic 20. I used to belong to a > Commodore user group back when such groups were going concerns. Also > have not so fond memories of typing in programs from magazines back > before they started including checksums to catch some of the typos ;-) That's just reminded me of a woman who used to serve in the works canteen, she was always forgetting things. My friend nicknamed her, Vic 20 because she had so little memory. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. I have gmail and have invites to give out too. I love, love, love it! The archive thing is the best, you never lose your old messages and can do a google search on them to find the one you want. Also no graphical ads which makes it so much faster than yahoo for my slow dial up connection. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Does anybody want a Gmail (google's web-based email, 1GB of storage!) > account? Email me and I'll send you an invitation to activate one. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov > Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com Hi: Can you send me a Gmail invitation? I will thank you for one thousand times. Sincerely. > I have gmail and have invites to give out too. I love, love, love it! > The archive thing is the best, you never lose your old messages and [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov > > Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Hi: > > Can you send me a Gmail invitation? I will thank you for one > thousand times. > > Sincerely. I'm sorry, but I don't even know you. I was thinking more along the lines of a regular contributor to this group. I'm not sure I want you to know my gmail address for fear of receiving spam. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > I'm sorry, but I don't even know you. I was thinking more along the > lines of a regular contributor to this group. I'm not sure I want you > to know my gmail address for fear of receiving spam. Very wise of you, I wouldn't have given him one, neither. Save it for people you sort of know from this or other groups, or perhaps friends and family. I have been using Gmail for a couple of months now, but I have never got the possibility to hand out invitations. Maybe I don't use it enough? Hans > > I'm sorry, but I don't even know you. I was thinking more along the > > lines of a regular contributor to this group. I'm not sure I want you [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Hans I don't know, I got invites after using it for 2 weeks or so. I invited a friend and she hardly uses it but has gotten invites too. There should be a little red message on the left hand side that says "Invite 6 friends to gmail" or something similar. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > I don't know, I got invites after using it for 2 weeks or so. I > invited a friend and she hardly uses it but has gotten invites too. > There should be a little red message on the left hand side that says > "Invite 6 friends to gmail" or something similar. If you still have invites to spare, maybe you could drop me one too? One could almost say I collet email addies, but mainly ones with lots of space... Hotmail is almost useless with its 2 MB. SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 Looking for GMail Invite if u can help out. thx DMan > > I don't know, I got invites after using it for 2 weeks or so. I > > invited a friend and she hardly uses it but has gotten invites too. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > could almost say I collet email addies, but mainly ones with lots of > space... Hotmail is almost useless with its 2 MB. > I have gmail and have invites to give out too. I love, love, love it! > The archive thing is the best, you never lose your old messages and > can do a google search on them to find the one you want. Also no > graphical ads which makes it so much faster than yahoo for my slow > dial up connection. I have gmail now, but they didn't give me any invites. Bah. ------ Krista Hi Britta, If you have any invites left, I would love to try Gmail. (The email address attached to this message is valid except that you need to "take-out-the-litter.") Thanks! MaryL >I have gmail and have invites to give out too. I love, love, love it! > The archive thing is the best, you never lose your old messages and [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov >> Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Hi Britta, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks! > MaryL Hi Mary, It's done, check your email :-) -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> Hi Britta, >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Check out pictures of Vino at: > http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album Got it! And I've already signed up. Thanks, Britta. MaryL Hi: Can you send me a Gmail invitation? I will thank you for one thousand times. Sincerely. > Does anybody want a Gmail (google's web-based email, 1GB of storage!) > account? Email me and I'll send you an invitation to activate one. > Does anybody want a Gmail (google's web-based email, 1GB of storage!) > account? Email me and I'll send you an invitation to activate one. Hi, I'm trying to have a gmail account, if u have any valid invitations, please send me one. my current email is msoliman@virgitech.com thank u |
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