[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 174, Issue 41

[Eleanor Lister]

Antony Barry wrote:
>
> On 25/05/2007, at 1:14 PM, Stewart Fist wrote:
>
>> When I was a boy, we were so poor we didn't have WAIS, Archie and
>> Gopher ...
>> only Dialog and Orbit.
>
> C'mon Stewart, you can do better than that. When you and I were boys
> we had steam radio and encyclopedia Brittanica salesmen (never women).
> Records went at 78rpm and shattered if you dropped them. The radio was
> a major piece of furniture playing the "Lawsons" and "Much Binding in
> the Marsh". After the ABC news delivered by very toffy British accents
> there followed "..crackle..pop.. This is London Calling..".
>
> Were you an Argonaut by any chance? I wasn't much to my uncle Keith
> Barry's <http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130147b.htm>
> disappointment.
>
> Tony

hey, i was an argonaut!  i didn't participate much, i was too much a
bookworm

that past was certainly a different country ...

regards,
    EL
P.S:  i used to write to various companies and get their stamp albums,
or great cricketers collectors book, two cards in every packet of
weetbix!  i swapped my cricketers for rockets and planes and the solar
system, i first learned a little astronomy that way, and it piqued my
interest, later i built a 6" Newtonian reflector ... it was awesome!

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Eleanor Ashley Lister
South Sydney Greens
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