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</head><body><p>In 1985 had a Zenith PC clone and MS WORD version 1. Loaded it from the one 5 and a half inch floppy drive, took out the disk and inserted the floppy to write to. Given I wrote my first book on a 1918 Underwood, I remain amazed to this day I can change page 25 of 274 without having anymore to retype all of them!<br></p><p><br></p><p>Terry Smith, '59 TR3A<br></p><p>New Hampshire<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On April 16, 2017 at 7:55 AM "TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><div class="ox-b09058c1a2-moz-cite-prefix">Back in 86 or 87 when the British car list started I was using a 128K Mac and VT100 dumb terminal emulator software connected to a Mini in HP Labs. I was using Elle as a UNIX editor. First on autos.rec then on the British car mail list when it first started. <a class="ox-b09058c1a2-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:twakeman@hplabs.com">twakeman@hplabs.com</a><br> <br> Now, if only Google mail didn't put 90+% of the FOT and Triumph mail traffic in their spam folder, short stopping the emails before they even get to my computer, life would be so much better.<br> <br> On 4/15/17 6:44 PM, Michael Marr wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I had a Sinclair</div><div id="ox-b09058c1a2-AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="ox-b09058c1a2-AppleMailSignature">Mike<br> <br> Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br> On Apr 15, 2017, at 19:56, Philip Ethier <<a href="mailto:pethier7@gmail.com">pethier7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">When I started, I had an Atari 800 computer.<div class="ox-b09058c1a2-gmail_extra"><br><div class="ox-b09058c1a2-gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Dave <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com" target="_blank">dave1massey@cs.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I wasn't a subscriber at the start but I remember, back in the mid 90's, dragging my old AT laptop, mouse external dial-up modem into the hotel room, looked up the local access dial-up number, down loaded the digest, copied it into a text editor to type my responses off-line, then reconnected to send out the responses. I thought it was the neatest thing. Looking back, what a PITA. But it was still worth it.</span></span></blockquote><div> </div></div>-- <br><div class="ox-b09058c1a2-gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; background-color: #efefef;">Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA</span><br></div><div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;">1973 Triumph Stag LE22439UBW "uncle jack", Sapphire Blue</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;">2004 Suburban 8.1, Sport Red, the only automatic of the bunch</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;">2005 Lotus Elise, Bordeaux Red Pearl</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;">2005 Subaru Legacy GT Limited, Regal Blue Pearl</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida; grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;"> <a href="http://www.mnautox.com/" style="color: #001839; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida;grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: #efefef;" target="_blank">http://www.mnautox.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> <br></div></blockquote></blockquote><br> TeriAnn<br> 1961 Triumph TR3<br> 1960 Land Rover Dormobile<br><div class="ox-b09058c1a2-moz-signature">-- <br><p align="center"><a href="http://overlandtravel.us">Book - The Essential Guide to Overland Travel in the United States and Canada</a> <br> 2 years to write and 38 years of travel and camping to learn what to write<br> <br> <strong>Because the world beckons and life waits for no one</strong></p></div></blockquote><p><br> </p><blockquote type="cite"><br>** triumphs@autox.team.net **<br><br>Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html<br>Archive: http://www.team.net/archive<br>Forums: http://www.team.net/forums<br>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/terryrs@comcast.net<br></blockquote></body></html>