RE: old school

[John Hedtke <john -at- hedtke -dot- com>]

At 04:56 PM 5/20/2008, fritillary -at- gmail -dot- com wrote:
>I am proud to say I have an 8" disk on prominent display in my home 
>office.  I've always been interested in "old tech" - so my dad found 
>a bunch of 8" disks laying around at his work, and gave them to me, 
>because I always wanted to see one.  The capacity of the disks 
>ranged from 512 bytes to 1K.  I gave one to my boyfriend and he framed it.
>
>  My dad tells a story of how he brought me into work when I was 
> around 2 or 3, and I got into someone's desk drawer, and completely 
> disorganized a co-worker's punch cards.  Apparently these had to be 
> fed into a computer in a precise order - yikes!  I do not remember 
> this event, but he has photos of me sitting in the drawer.
>
>I loved WordStar.  I went through the whole tutorial and got pretty 
>good at it, and used it a lot to write stories, poems, and school papers.
>
>Anyone here remember "Microsoft Bob"?

Yes, we were laughing at it before it came out.  A friend at MS told 
me that everyone knew it would be bad, but it was Bill's 
fiance-at-the-time Melinda's idea, so you just didn't say too loudly 
that it wasn't good.

I'd actually love to get a copy just to play with it now.

>Any former BBS geeks here?

I was there at the start of BBSes.  I still have in the collection of 
BBS stuff a list of all the BBSes in the Puget Sound area in late 
1984.  There were less than 20 of them.  I ended up writing three 
books about BBSes over the years and, just a few years ago, had the 
pleasure of being featured in a documentary about the history of 
BBSes (Take a look at http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/).  It was a 
lovely run and I met some great folks over the years because of them.

Yours truly,

John Hedtke 

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