Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!littlei!intelhf!agora!trifid From: trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks) Newsgroups: comp.society.development Subject: Re: Who is on the net? Message-ID: <1991May24.011820.9512@agora.rain.com> Date: 24 May 91 01:18:20 GMT References: <1991May23.115550.966@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <1991May23.164958.14426@nas.nasa.gov> Organization: Open Communications Forum Lines: 28 Hmmmm. Who is on the net? How about a female part-time sports car mechanic who is an information junkie? I don't even care for computers all that much (although I am not scared of them like some people) and have marginal use for them in my very small business. I live below the established USA "poverty level", am on Food Stamps, belong to the SCA, am studying to become a libraraian (my need for computers is about to change in a *big* way! :-) am a heavy poster to several soc.culture groups. I come to you courtesy of a private BBS in Portland, Oregon, via a used Commodore 64 using a Kermit program. The only thing I miss is the "space" afforded by a hard disk and larger memory, but my "home" system has nearly unlimited file space, so it's not much of a problem. I console myself, when twitted about my machine by IBM-pushers, that this little machine would have filled a goodly space in the 50's, and belong to a large business or university. :-) I use it almost exclusively to access the net, and get about 15 pieces of email a day from around the world... Suze Hammond trifid@agora.rain.com (Sorry about the typo of "librarian". :-) If *I* can do it, so can Zaire!