[COLUG] February COLUG Meeting Shocker

[Glenn Amerine]

mchenrytech at wideopenwest.com writes:
 > My biggest claim to fame, in a way, was back in the old 300 baud days, I was 
 > on the only local BBS at the time and saw a message with a somewhat famous 
 > name attached to it.  I thought I would write and see if it's who I thought 
 > it was.  We conversed quite a few times and as it turns out, yes, it was THE 
 > Steve Wozniak (sp) from his garage complex.
 > 
 > I was on my Timex Sinclair 1000 with 300 Buad modem at the time (from the 
 > Brice Road Pharmacy).  We used to have quite a regular crowd at the main 
 > library for meetings way back then.
 > 
 > I saved the conversations on my 40 column thermal printer but, as you might 
 > guess, the messages have faded into obscurity.  So sad.
 > 
 > Sean

You have me beat with both the Timex and conversing. I ran a BBS off
of a Commodore 64 @ 300 BPS. We had a post from Steve, but given the
fact I was running it off my Mom & Dad's only phone line several hours
in the evening, the one post was pretty much our user's group claim to
fame.

Glenn