[Tfug] WorldCare

[John Karns]

How long ao did you live in Tucson?

-- 
John

On 5/11/08, Eric Christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> I asked about WC cuz its often mentioned here. As i was living there,
> there wuz no WC. I know this because i was allways scouring Tucson/GV
> for puters cuz i wanted at all times at least 1 working puter with the
> others to experiment with, often just a MB with power supply. But try as
> i did, I just got useless stuff. I needed, of course, at least a 386 for
> Linux, never found one. It was fun tho, driving thru Tucson with my
> ol'pickup with (useless) puter equipment in the bed. People would grin,
> "look Ma, a digital redneck". This is not particular to Tucson, I had
> the same experience in Hamburg (home of the Big Mac): just nothing or
> useless stuff like piles of AT-boards. So, now with WC, all the usefull
> stuff - i knew it was there, somewhere - comes out of the woodwork.
> But, it was most fun driving thru Tucson's streets which I got to know
> quite well and appreciate, like in Ronstad (or is that Ronstadt? The
> (now) french river "Rhon", "Stadt" = city, thus, city on the Rhon) with
> the beautiful beautiful dark eyed senorita ( a joung Joan Baez) selling
> hot tamales in maise husks...
> Eric
>
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