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Old-timers from the old dealmac - RAMd®d - 08-18-2009
I was lurking in the '30s when dealmac posted there sales on a chalkboard and the community called at least three numbers to spread the word. You could walk by their storefront (in a Woolworths 5&10) and head down to the basement to post on flanking chalkboards.
There were no Meet and Greats back then, but sometimes I'd have lunch or a soda at the counter upstairs and see if I could find chalk dust on any of the customers. Sometimes, when I spotted some, I'd try to guess which denizen they might be. I never knew which one they might have been, but was disappointed nonetheless.
It wasn't until the '40s that I started posting (anonymously of course) and I finally registered (in '99 maybe). I Posted a few times, subsequently changed the r to an ®, posted a couple times more, and eventually ended up here.
Dealmac had one of the best forum communities I've ever run across
Agreed.
I've still got one of the dealmac t-shirts they handed out at Macworld San Francisco one year.
I think I've got six, all different, maybe one duplicate.
Things grew unsettled and the milk curdled for good after 9/11 and that was that.
As tragic as September 11 was, I was also saddened at what happened to dm and the way some posters responded. It was no small shock, and it was a moment of clarity, a curtain lifting letting one see beneath the facades that some maintained.
Today I tell myself that none of those aberrated (new word) personalities are here today, and wonder what became of some that apparently didn't chose to come. There were several, Charlie ™ chief among them.
Seems like a whole different millennium back then.
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - motopsyco - 08-18-2009
I think I registered there about a year or so before the diaspora. I can't find any trace of my posting there. No great loss.
Cheers!
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - lazydays - 08-18-2009
November 2005 for me. In this group that appears to make me a new guy.
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - Kate - 08-18-2009
My first post was in 99.
Something I've always been curious about is the ratio of men to women. Seems to be a LOT more men than women on this (and the old) forum, or is it just that user names don't really reflect gender?
Just curious. I know that I still feel a certain resistance to the idea that I actually know what I'm talking about computer wise (although I still have so many questions).
And now that I have grey hair, it seems that I'm perceived to be completely ignorant of the technical side of things, particularly in B&M establishments.
Kate
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - Psurfer - 08-18-2009
Wow, I didn't know that archive of old posts existed anymore, I thought they were all lost, or deleted. Shows my first post in '02, but I was there -at least reading- starting in late '99 or '00.
I always liked the threads where someone boldly decreed they were writing their Absolutely Last Post Ever, how they wasted so much time writing on the forum and now were leaving it Forever, so long, farewell, etc.
That was before people on the forum actually started dying.
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - Rolando - 08-18-2009
My first post was about 2000
http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?5,1922240,1922314#1922314
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - JoeH - 08-18-2009
P.S. I posted before that I used to post at DM under "Joe" before registration was required. But I am not the "Joe" who used to post this, "I am looking for the cheapest postscript printer with USB or ethernet support..."
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - mikebw - 08-18-2009
My first post was February 20, 2003. I was looking for advice on what 10/100 Ethernet PCI card to get for my beige G3 which at that point was almost 5 years old. I still have it.
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - $tevie - 08-18-2009
I think it was 1998 but I could be wrong +/- a year either way.
Re: Old-timers from the "old forum" - Will Collier - 08-18-2009
AAA wrote:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980110212107/http://deal-mac.com/
Heh. There's a link there to a $549 "deal" on the later-famous iXMicro UltimateRez video card. That was one of the great old dealmac deals when they popped up for well under $100 not much later. I think everybody on the board bought at least one.