Maddison blushed but accepted, saying, "Yes, that's right, you're my sister and best friend, and I'll be Alice's older sister, pinky promise." Emilly replied, "Pinky promise and Girl Scout promise."
Ada took the children outside to give them a very important task: "Our activity, worth this week's golden frog, will be..." Maddison asked, "What would this golden frog be?" Emilly replied, "It's the most important activity of the week, presented on Wednesday, and a friendly class competition." Ada raised her voice slightly to get Maddison and Emilly's attention and said, "Entomological picture of butterflies and insects." Ada explained that they would need an adult, they would go to the park or house, they would collect animals to assemble the picture, and whoever had the most beautiful one would win. Ada finished, "Tiffany and Maddison... Alex, Emilly, and Maddison." She separated the class into pairs for the activity; Maddison would have to go to the park.
Ah, someone on the IBM / business side of the house.
Had access to a Wang programmable calculator and HP 5000e (Basic) in high school, plus access to the school district’s system to submit card decks (Fortran one trimester, COBOL the next).
College gained access to CDC (60 bit, ones compliment) main frame, Pr1me 350 (upgraded to 550), and VAX VMS 11/780 systems, plus a few others (being a Comp. Sci. major).
Ever Cold Booted a CDC mainframe, starting with a switch panel and a card deck?
@foreverdl: probably 2400 bps modem. Older would have been 1200 bps, or 300bps. Don’t think AOL ever supported 110 bps modems.
And what would any woman get out of that? There are so many men looking for a female mommy that posting just what you want isn't likely to yield results, especially when you make it sound like an all consuming issue. Just some thoughts.
We got our first computer after my second marriage, a very slow Packard Bell and had AOL a modem I think 🤔 was 2800mb, we started a download and left the room and checked on it for hrs and hrs...if it was a picture or something we could watch a TV show to pass the time...