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Subject:RE: Can this career be saved? From:"Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> To:"'Dan Goldstein'" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:52:17 -0400
I had forgot all about those things. My first computer (a Leading Edge) came
equipped with a 300 baud modem. For you yunsters....that's even slower than
slow, but I think it was still faster than the "Star" that Dan mentions;
although, I do remember using one of them in a village where the only phone
was at the Post Officer/General Store/Gas Station.
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Subject: RE: Can this career be saved?
I spent 18 years in interior Alaska where 50 below Januaries were the
norm..and I heated the house with wood. I drove a Landcruiser with no power
steering. That and the fact I was a single parent helped me convince the
University to allow me to take classes (and later work) on the really rough
days out of the house where all I had was dialup. There is nothing like
uploading a huge file at 14.4K. I at least had two phone lines, because of
those files.
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