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SIG: Witsig

Hey, did you guys know that the guy doing Picture Pages on Captain Kangaroo is also selling computers? The TI99/4A!

in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan

^^ Yessir folks, that's the one and only "Why Is There Air" Bill Cosby in the mid 1980s plugging the legendary Texas Instruments personal computer--and yes, he was also doing Picture Pages for Captain Kangaroo. And just before Compuserve got eaten by AOL, you're seeing that right: SIG = Special Interest Group and yes I had an actual account and was member of WITSIG, which is the name that NETWITS changed to, so yes, I'd been online for quite some time even in the 1980s.

The name I used in an earlier post in this vein was also an actual WITSIG account, and that was the wittiest handle I found on there: Mahatma Coate. <lessa> was the group's head, and that was her handle until she donned earrings, thus: <*>lessa<*>

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