"modern computing" subforum?

[Mike Chambers]

i know this is a VC forum, but maybe it'd be a good idea to have one forum for non-vintage computing topics? it'd be better than posting threads about it in the general section i think.

[Erik]

I'd rather just keep those topics in the "general offtopic" area. Making a "modern computing" area might encourage more of those discussions - especially from outsiders who find us via web search.

[Ole Juul]

You're probably right Eric. In my rural area, there are still quite a few who use dialup - just because it's cheap and will do the basics. Still, dialup modems, and certainly BBSs, are getting pretty retro. Few people know how to use a communications program - if they even have one! There is also the whole area of serial communications using terminals and TTY etc.

[Yzzerdd]

I fully agree that this is the vintage computing forum and that it would be begging for trouble to add a modern computing sub-forum. Heck, we shouldn't even be aloud to use the word "modern" in any vintage sub-forum.

hehe, just kidding about that last comment. But seriously. VC forum.

--Jack

[Ole Juul]

Oops! .... getting old ..... now I get it!
I read modern as modem. "rn" and "m" are kinda close.

[Yzzerdd]

Oops! .... getting old ..... now I get it!
I read modern as modem. "rn" and "m" are kinda close.

Well either way you interpret the previous messages (sans my last) it actually makes perfect since, seems how people with dial-up are looking for the quickest way to get their answer.

Hmm. Odd how things work out.

--Jack