[TR] Other Triumph Forums

[Greg Lemon]

I am not an old timer on the Triumph list, I think I started on it a year or so after I got my TR250 in 2008.  It does seem as though traffic is down, actually I think activity is down on the other Triumph place a frequent, British Car Forum.  Unfortunately if things slow down too much either everybody leaves or most leave but a hard core few.  I know Kas Kastner has a forum that is pretty slow, and I think six pack has one two.  If you have to wait a day or two before you maybe get an answer to a question you are probably going to look elsewhere.

I do have to say that I don't think the long term prognosis looks that good.  I know there are people younger than me on the list and on BCF, but when I go to my local club events I am, at 53, almost always one of the youngest if not the youngest guy there, we did have one college kid in the club a couple years ago, but he is gone, and other than that there are maybe 1 to 3 at the most couples/members in out 150 member multi-marque British car club younger than me.

I think the Healey list is a little more active, I still lurk there after selling my 100.  I don't know what the answer is, adding picture capability certainly bumped up activity for a while (and temporarily overloaded my inbox!) but seems that was a flash in the pan.

Greg Lemon
TR250




From: TeriAnn J. Wakeman 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 5:30 PM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net 
Subject: Re: [TR] Other Triumph Forums





On 3/31/15 2:34 PM, Darrell Walker wrote:



    On Mar 31, 2015, at 2:01 PM, TeriAnn J. Wakeman <tjwakeman at gmail.com> wrote:


    Back then I was using a 128K Mac with terminal emulation software connected to a HP Mini in HP Labs.  HP Labs was directly connected to the backbone.  I was using Elle software on UNIX to post.  Glad those days are over.  No more UNIX shell commands or Elle.


  I remember those days, you had to give our your email address relative to a well-known backbone site.  For example, when I started at HP, my email was !hplabs!hpda!hpesoc1!dwalker.  You would find maps that listed all of the major backbone sites and how they were connected, then you could construct route for your email message.


That's interesting.  In 1986 my email address was just twakeman at hplabs.com  Of course I might have been physically closer to the building than you were.  I was in Corporate Engineering about a half hour walk from both the HP labs building and Xerox Park.

TeriAnn



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