curious question

You think thats bad... I knew a gal who would have sworn that you had
ostriches. Not naming names here , and if cas knows whats good for her she
wont either.
Diana

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
...
LOL - makes a change from people thinking that about us Aussies - even to
this day a lot of international people (not naming countries) assume we
have
koalas on every street corner and kangaroos as pets.

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia
Queen of Down Under
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html
**********************
"Emilia" wrote in message
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Pat in Virginia wrote in
news:3cHZc.136431$Lj.52880@fed1read03:

Packrat: The reason peoplw might assume that European connections
often pay per minute is because until a couple yars ago, that was
usually the case. Well, that is the impression that I got from
teh folks in UK and other European locations. Not a put down
though. PAT in VA/USA

The UK was a bit slower in getting ASDL (well, only in that it was much
more expensive so less customers, because of the telephone monopolies in
UK
& Ireland, AFA I can gather.) than other countries in Europe. Belgium
and
Germany were quite advanced in cable & XDSL.

I know you don't mean it as a put down but it is frustrating sometimes
when
the people in the US always think that Europe is so 'backward'.
(Disclaimer: not accussing anyone in particular).

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
...
LOL - makes a change from people thinking that about us Aussies - even to
this day a lot of international people (not naming countries) assume we
have
koalas on every street corner and kangaroos as pets.

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia
Queen of Down Under
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html
**********************

You mean you dont ? /wink
But really - I had someone from australia tell me the other day that
Australians dont talk differently (than people in the states) I thought that
was sorta funny myself...I mean I love accents from around the world and was
saying that to him.

Roberta (in MD)

"Emilia" wrote in message
...
Pat in Virginia wrote in
news:3cHZc.136431$Lj.52880@fed1read03:

Packrat: The reason peoplw might assume that European connections
often pay per minute is because until a couple yars ago, that was
usually the case. Well, that is the impression that I got from
teh folks in UK and other European locations. Not a put down
though. PAT in VA/USA

The UK was a bit slower in getting ASDL (well, only in that it was much
more expensive so less customers, because of the telephone monopolies in
UK
& Ireland, AFA I can gather.) than other countries in Europe. Belgium
and
Germany were quite advanced in cable & XDSL.

I know you don't mean it as a put down but it is frustrating sometimes
when
the people in the US always think that Europe is so 'backward'.
(Disclaimer: not accussing anyone in particular).

Charlie wrote:

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...

DH remembers the days of the BBs. He talks about modems that were slower
than 14.4 kps, which is where I started out. 250 mbs of hard drive... oh

the

good old days. lol
Diana


We had a computer with a 4MB hand drive. To upgrade to 8 would cost over
£100 and the whole thing cost £1000 as I remember, I was only about 7!

Charlie.


Cloth for monitor wiping pleeeez! My first 'puter were a newfangled
treadle...

I remember our first computer... A BBC B with tape drive and 5"
floppies... And the internet was still SF movie teretory! That were
back in pre history o'course, in about 1980... The telly we bought then
to use as a monitor and TV stopped working earlier this year, and we had
to replace it with a widescreen TV that would fit in the fireplace!

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Sharon Harper wrote:

LOL - makes a change from people thinking that about us Aussies - even to
this day a lot of international people (not naming countries) assume we have
koalas on every street corner and kangaroos as pets.



Blink blink.. *DON'T* you? Ooer... I bet you still drink Fosters for
breakfast, though...

--
Kate XXXXXX (From the land where everyone wears kilts and eats nothing
but salty porridge and plays bagpipes all day long!)
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

OOh Kate, you mean you actually *had* a tape drive, built in? My first computer
was one of those Radio Shack jobbies where you plugged in your tape player if
you wanted a storage device.

And we had to program with 1's and 0's, if we were lucky; made do with l's and
O's if not, ;-^

--
Anne in CA -- thinking a treadle computer would be totally neat.
"It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl Crow
http://home.covad.net/~arudolph/annes.htm



Kate Dicey wrote:

Charlie wrote:

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...

DH remembers the days of the BBs. He talks about modems that were slower
than 14.4 kps, which is where I started out. 250 mbs of hard drive... oh

the

good old days. lol
Diana


We had a computer with a 4MB hand drive. To upgrade to 8 would cost over
£100 and the whole thing cost £1000 as I remember, I was only about 7!

Charlie.


Cloth for monitor wiping pleeeez! My first 'puter were a newfangled
treadle...

I remember our first computer... A BBC B with tape drive and 5"
floppies... And the internet was still SF movie teretory! That were
back in pre history o'course, in about 1980... The telly we bought then
to use as a monitor and TV stopped working earlier this year, and we had
to replace it with a widescreen TV that would fit in the fireplace!

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

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OOh Kate, you mean you actually *had* a tape drive, built in? My first computer
was one of those Radio Shack jobbies where you plugged in your tape player if
you wanted a storage device.

And we had to program with 1's and 0's, if we were lucky; made do with l's and
O's if not, ;-^


Oh the tape drive wasn't built in! Oohno! It was a separate gadget
thet plugged in round the back... And you couldn't use an ordinary
audio cassete recorder, it had to be this special one that went at
special speeds, and we had a pile of C15 tapes for the programs!
--
Anne in CA -- thinking a treadle computer would be totally neat.
"It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl Crow
http://home.covad.net/~arudolph/annes.htm



Kate Dicey wrote:


Charlie wrote:


"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...


DH remembers the days of the BBs. He talks about modems that were slower
than 14.4 kps, which is where I started out. 250 mbs of hard drive... oh

the


good old days. lol
Diana


We had a computer with a 4MB hand drive. To upgrade to 8 would cost over
£100 and the whole thing cost £1000 as I remember, I was only about 7!

Charlie.



Cloth for monitor wiping pleeeez! My first 'puter were a newfangled
treadle...

I remember our first computer... A BBC B with tape drive and 5"
floppies... And the internet was still SF movie teretory! That were
back in pre history o'course, in about 1980... The telly we bought then
to use as a monitor and TV stopped working earlier this year, and we had
to replace it with a widescreen TV that would fit in the fireplace!

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!


remove NOSPAM to reply


--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:56:32 +0100, Kate Dicey
wrote:

Charlie wrote:

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...

DH remembers the days of the BBs. He talks about modems that were slower
than 14.4 kps, which is where I started out. 250 mbs of hard drive... oh
the good old days. lol

We had a computer with a 4MB hand drive. To upgrade to 8 would cost over
£100 and the whole thing cost £1000 as I remember, I was only about 7!

Cloth for monitor wiping pleeeez! My first 'puter were a newfangled
treadle...

I remember our first computer... A BBC B with tape drive and 5"
floppies... And the internet was still SF movie teretory! That were
back in pre history o'course, in about 1980... The telly we bought then
to use as a monitor and TV stopped working earlier this year, and we had
to replace it with a widescreen TV that would fit in the fireplace!

*grin*

Our first home computer was a box with switches and leds on the front.
You had to throw the switches to program it. DH got it, I was just
baffled.
The first one we had with a keyboard was a Timex Sinclair.
DH did a fair old bit of programing on it, not that the programs were
much of anything useful. You could save to a regular cassette deck
though. Only sometimes the tapes sort of didn't really work very
well...

NightMist

--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell

Sure Charlie, I know that. :-) What I was trying to recall were
people in the ng who have been here a long time and are oceans away.
I wasn't inferring that Africa was in Europe....but I knew Tutu lives
there and was hoping for an answer from those across the water.

Denise in Ontario, Canada

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:25:54 +0100, "Charlie"
wrote:

You do know that Africa's not in Europe, right?

Charlie.

"Denise Jameson" wrote in message
.. .
I believe anyone in Europe pays per minute (could be wrong though).
Tutu (in Africa)) ? Heidi (in Germany)? Can you confirm for us?

Denise in Ontario, Canada

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:09:44 -0700, DrQuilter
wrote:

not that I am for advertising in this group or anything like that, but a
doubt has piqued my curiosity. every time we get one of those obnoxious
posts somebody brings out the fact that 'some of us' pay per minute. I
know my mom does that back home, but I am wondering how many of us
really do that and how many have a DSL or dialup plan with a constant
rate no matter how many hours you are connected?



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Charlie wrote:

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
DH remembers the days of the BBs. He talks about modems that were slower
than 14.4 kps, which is where I started out. 250 mbs of hard drive... oh
the
good old days. lol
Diana

We had a computer with a 4MB hand drive. To upgrade to 8 would cost over
?100 and the whole thing cost ?1000 as I remember, I was only about 7!

Charlie.

We stated out with a Commodore 64. Dad found it at work recently and
it still works!

--
Melinda
http://cust.idl.com.au/athol

my first puter was a C64. had a special tape drive.
i used to get books out of the library and spend late late nights copying
programs into the keyboard and saving to tape. the commodore was cool cuz u
you type it all in, run the program and when u hit a syntax error it would
tell you which line and you could find it and fix it, then run it again,
each time stopping at the next syntax error til you finished fixing all the
typos you made in the mad rush to type in the pages and pages of programing
for some silly little game.
tho i did have fun as i learned what some things did by correcting them so i
could change the parameters and config the program somewhat for ease of
play, lol. ok ok, so it was cheating on the original program, whats your
point? lol.

first modem was on my new fangled 486. 'twere a 2500kb or was that 2800?
whatever, it was slow but i did connect to IBMs Gateway to the K12 net and a
few other bulletin boards. i learned how to install that modem myself as
well. puter was out of warranty and a friend showed me how to do it and it
worked too. damn i was clever back then, lol. then i upgraded to a 14.4 in
the 486.

then i got this puter, 6yrs old now and still plugging away with only
128ram, 12gbsHD, 350mhz speed, 56k modem.
i use dial up at NZ$25 a month for up to 250hrs (only came close a couple of
times) in up to 3hrs max if they are real busy then then dump you and you
can dial up straight away again.
tho some days i've had it connected up to 8hrs in a row without a
disconnect. no limit on the amount u can download in that time either. i
just cant justify being online 24/7 at the cost of it (double what i'm
paying now, i think).
my old brain isnt that fast anyhow, lol.
jeanne
lost in cyberspace somewhere over the south pacific
--
http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar
real reply is san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz
nzlstar on yahoo msg'r


"Diana Curtis" wrote...
DH remembers the days of the BBs. He talks about modems that were slower
than 14.4 kps, which is where I started out. 250 mbs of hard drive... oh the
good old days. lol

We had a computer with a 4MB hand drive. To upgrade to 8 would cost over
£100 and the whole thing cost £1000 as I remember, I was only about 7!

Cloth for monitor wiping pleeeez! My first 'puter were a newfangled
treadle...

I remember our first computer... A BBC B with tape drive and 5"
floppies... And the internet was still SF movie teretory! That were
back in pre history o'course, in about 1980... The telly we bought then
to use as a monitor and TV stopped working earlier this year, and we had
to replace it with a widescreen TV that would fit in the fireplace!

*grin*

Our first home computer was a box with switches and leds on the front.
You had to throw the switches to program it. DH got it, I was just
baffled.
The first one we had with a keyboard was a Timex Sinclair.
DH did a fair old bit of programing on it, not that the programs were
much of anything useful. You could save to a regular cassette deck
though. Only sometimes the tapes sort of didn't really work very
well...

NightMist

--
"It's such a gamble when you get a face"
- Richard Hell