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Re: Request from Nancy Allison HOPING THIS GETS THROUGH. CONTAINS A REPLY.
Subject:Re: Request from Nancy Allison HOPING THIS GETS THROUGH. CONTAINS A REPLY. From:John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> To:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:07:31 -0400
I remember the heavily noise-insulated cabinets the printers were in.
Like little padded cells.
Those were the days ... I remember the huge 5MB hard disk drive
platters. I still have one that suffered a head crash.
Sigh. I had more (and darker) hair then ...
JG
Nancy Allison said the following on 3/27/2009 3:59 PM:
> Oh, yeah. It was ages ago. My hair was brown then and I was THIN.
>
> Remember those daisy wheels drumming away, usually in a printer room
> down a long hall around a corner?
>
> Darn. It was a pretty font.
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