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[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Richard left this scat to Gary:

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How I love making Sid pull his hair out...

>accounts because no one uses them anymore (Guess us II users are
>considered no one, eh?)  Anyway, when we told them that we were using a
>IIGS, they said, 'Oh.  You have a Mac?'  We then went into a long

We're not considered worthwhile to AOL.  :)

And I've met that "Oh, a Mac" when I said I was on a //e or //gs a few
times.  What rips my knickers is getting registered on a new BBS and the
system type question is asked:  one board only listed the various 80x86
beasts, and one (a Hermes on a Mac even!) offered "Mac - small", "Mac -
medium" and "Mac - large".  Whatever happened to "Apple" or even
"Other"?  Could be worse.  Ever seen TI99-4A listed anywhere??  :)

'Nother thing that bugs me is people on IRC who won't send me files (or
cancel during send) because I can't send concurrently... 'nother story.

>Mac.  All we could do then was leave in disgust.  What happened to the
>days when people in the computer industry were required to have some
>degree of intelligence?

Same thing as happened with the days when you had to have some degree of
intelligence to operate a computer.  Windows eliminated the need.  :)

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