Special thanks to PJMACUA

[bucko]

I know this may not be the right place to post this, but I'd like all those that post and read here to know that our friend over the pond, PJMACUA did a great favor for me. He went way out of his way to obtain the military police pole that I needed. This was greatly appretiated, and I hope I get to meet him some day in person and thank him personally.

[bmwloco]

Cool. That's what makes rare cars and BBS's so cool. Good people sharing.

[Towel Rail]

[Big Luni]

BBS is what we called forums like this before web browsers existed, back when you had to log on to message boards by firing up your TRS-80 and dropping your phone reciever on your 300 baud modem. I think it stands for Bulletin Board System or Service or something like that. Back in those days, computer guys and VW guys didn't tend to cross paths all that often, so online aircooled resources weren't quite what they are today.

[Captain Spalding]

[Pinky]

Yep, you're old.



I do remember being a little kid and playing Montazuma's Revenge and Snoopy to the Rescue on the old Apple that my Grandfather gave us though. Orange moniter and everything...

My Dad's office had an electric typewriter that we used to play on, but by the time that I was old enough to have to start typing my papers, typewriters were obsolete. I still have one sitting three feet away from me right now though-

I remember our first laptop too. Some junkass old Toshiba that had white letters on a blue screen. It was another gift from my Grandfather and my luddite parents were scared of it, so we never really figured out what to do with it. I used to just turn it on and "draw" arial traffic patterns like this:

___________________________
(D_D ) I__I_ID (D_D )
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__(_D_D)__________(_D_D)____

Man, I haven't thought about doing that in years. I remember it being a lot cooler though- I used to sit and do that for hours when it was raining...

[ztnoo]

Luddite....great word.
Haven't heard that since college.
We won't talk about how long ago that was.

Luddite
An individual who is against technological change. Luddite comes from Englishman Ned Lud, who rose up against his employer in the late 1700s. Subsequently, "Luddites" emerged in other companies to protest and even destroy new machinery that would put them out of a job. A neo-Luddite is a Luddite in the Internet age.

1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2. One who opposes technical or technological change.

[pjmacua]