That got me thinking of telegrams. I only sent one. I was a teenager trying
to contact a former girlfriend.
But we received a few and in my inlaws stuff we found dozens that were sent to
them when they got married.
They all had that little strip of paper glued onto the form for each line of
the message. I used to think someone was cutting those strips out of a
printout. Nope, the printers actually printed on the little strip of paper.
And in their world, “full stop” meant period. And a period got charged the
same rate as a word.
Someone had the glorious job of gluing strips onto forms all day long.
Nice that you could send a note to someone and Western Union had to track them
down and deliver it. Better than repeatedly trying to make person to person
telephone calls. It really did have an email attribute that it was fast but
could be launched and not worried about.
The local newspaper office had one of those wire service printers running
constantly. Those printouts were on long rolls of newsprint type paper.
Slightly yellow. I think I owned one at one time when I was trying to get into
RTTY as a ham. KSR48 I think. It was an ASCII machine where earlier ones were
BAUDOT.
From: Chuck McCown via AF
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:06 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] list dead?
I think those that are FB enthusiasts left a long time ago. I have never been
on FB other than when my wife tells me that someone is posting something I
should see. I will go there and see someone sent me a message 6 months ago. I
apologize and give them my email address.
So odd that younger folk look at email as antiquated. But then, none of them
have ever sent or received a telegram...
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2021 9:08 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] list dead?
If the people on this list went to FB, I would have to say adios.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 7/25/2021 5:25 AM, Timothy Steele wrote:
Everyone seems to have moved on to the WISP talk Facebook group
There are still a good number on this list though
On Sat, Jul 24, 2021, 12:45 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
I tried that and got arrested for desecration of a corpse
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 5:27 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
Necromancy required to resurrect?
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