"John Grossbohlin" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:
We'd get great messages like this one...
Is there a place in the shop for an abacus?
I just got a new one for the house and thought I could use the old one out in the shop. What abacus software do you like to run? Is it worth the three sheckles to buy one of those unit conversion programs?
Twinkle
You don't use this for all your projects?
DerbyDad03 wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
I'm still using story sticks, but only short ones. I don't want my story sticks telling me any tall tales.
Twinkle
Thanks for sharing!
There were some real gems in the rec over the years... I wonder if there are archives of all of the posts somewhere?
There used to be a site (
I searched for a previous username that I had and found posts from late
1990. I can't recall when I first joined usenet, but it was some time back then. The company I worked at the time had usenet access.That was before I had any type of computer at home. In fact, when the company switched from Apple to IBM, we got to take these home.
I sure miss dial-up.
"John Grossbohlin" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:
Home Owner's Hub and Google Groups. Luigi had some but I think his site is mostly gone. The woodgears.ca guy has at least a partial archive of the binary group.
If you can point me to a URL of a gem, I'll add it to my archive. I'll add it even faster if you can minimize the amount of work I have to do.
Puckdropper
I suppose you are aware you can search messages, here, either by subject or poster. I searched Luigi and listings back to at least 2010 showed.
At random, I selected this one... not started by Luigi, but he commented on.
Luigi search results:
Sonny
I first had UseNet around 1990 also. It was via university computers/accounts at the time. Archie, Veronica, Kermit... I was friends with all of them in those days but seriously do not miss them. Today I struggle to recall the details of our working relationships!
Sonny wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
I was mistaken as to the state of Luigi's woodworking pages. They're still up:
Be sure to enjoy the humour page!
I really should link to his page from mine.
Puckdropper
I have 45,959 messages from 2004-2018 archived on my computer. There are several specialty folders that contain another 10,000 or so messages. I can send these to you if you have a working copy of Forte Agent 1.0-1.93 . I was forced to upgrade to a new version when Comcast went to SSL which was not supported back then. The databases are not backwards compatible beginning with Agent 2.0.
On one of the backup drives should be archived messages from 1996 (or so) and
2004.Regards, Roy
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