[Shotimes] Old and Crusty

[Donald Mallinson]

Carl,

No I haven't taken any survey of old-timers, but we have 
lost a lot of them over the years, many remain my friends 
even though they haven't owned a SHO in years.

I left Prodigy, like a lot of people when they started 
charging for the section where we had SHO Fast Sedan News, 
that I started in the fall/winter of 1991.  At one point it 
was the oldest continuous thread on prodigy.  Funny, but 
that Forum style format was way ahead of its time, but I 
still prefer the e-mail format we hve here now, to any Forum.

Don Mallinson

Carl Prochilo wrote:
> Have you taken a count of how many of us are still around?  Not saying
> it's your job or anything, but if you did, it would be an interesting bit
> of trivia.
> 
> There's a thread on techsho about using web interface versus e-mail.  I
> remember when the prodigy bulletin boards first offered a DOS e-mail
> client that allowed download and reply capability, and IIRC at some point
> they started a tiered service offering where they charged for number of
> e-mail sent.  The e-mail was an important capability back in the day when
> you used to get hit with connect time charges.  The yung 'uns now take the
> internet for granted I'm sure and now it's as ubiquitous as drinking
> water.  And for even more trivia, Prodigy Classic used to run on a 3090
> (some of you will know what this is) that I worked on in a past life.