Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 28 2025 05:10 pm

 Re: Re: New to this
 By: Arelor to Alonzo on Mon Apr 28 2025 05:16 pm

> I remember a once I was at an RPG party and the electric circuit responsible
> for the lights went kaput. Rather than cancel the party - everybody was
> enjoying the game - a friend from Engineering college and I disconnected one
> of the ceiling lamps from the circuit and ran a cable from an electrical
> socket into it. The RPG game was saved. The guy told me, as the lamp was

realitycheckBBS' first home was in a deco-style apartment building in San Francisco - the lobby looked like it came from the 1940s. My studio had beautiful high ceilings, crown molding, steam heat, sash windows, and an electrical layout befitting the 1940s.

The walk-in closet was cavernous, and I was a 20-something kid with 3 suits for work and a handful of tshirts and jeans. I put a side table in the closet, wedged an old IBM AT clone from work in there, and thought it'd make a perfect office. The only problem was a lack of outlets.

I ran one of those plugs that screw into a light socket, then ran an extension cord down the ornate (and now non-functional) overhead fixture, and powered the BBS. While I was forced to dress in the dark, the rest, as they say, is history.

I'm looking at my office now, with 4 outlets and a huge UPS driving a desktop PC, two servers and two printers...
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