Now *that* is dedication! It sure beats laden swallows and smoke signals though.
Regards, Adrien > On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:31 PM, david whiting <d...@davidwhiting.me.uk> > wrote: > > You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's > my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the main > hospital in the country. To send email I think I used a simple text > client and saved emails to a floppy disk. I would then take them over > to the library where the guy who ran the mailserver would copy them to > the server (a 386 running redhat). We would then wait for the Satelife > satellite to pass overhead. We normally had a 10 minute connection > window and he would have to adjust the dish to get the signal right. > Then there would be an agonising wait as we slowly watched each email > transfer. Then to get a reply I would come back the next day. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
