Top-posting shenanigans

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:00:13 -0800 (PST)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> 
> > Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Pine
> > > Is
> > > Not
> > > Elm
> >
> > What the hell is all this talk about pine and elm?  I only use
> > Mail(1)!
> 
> Wimp!  On days when I'm sick I communicate directly with the SMTP
> port. Otherwise, I normally whistle bits down the ether!!  This
> message took me 3 hours to submit.
> 

Back when I was a kid and couldn't afford a real computer, sometimes I
would call the dialup number to the timesharing system (1) and whistle
into it.  If you whistled the right way, you could get the other end
warbling and it wouldn't hang up until you ran out of breath from
whistling.

(1) we didn't have any _real_ computers at school, either, just several
ASR33's, a CRT Terminal, a Silent 700, and 'acoustic couplers' to
connect through.

-Scott