I sent a few of those too. A little more expensive than a letter with a
stamp. Seems it was like $7 for a short sentence.
Hell no I won't go FB.
On 7/25/21 10:31 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
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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