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Tech that I miss: Email Tagline Inserter

I’ve been online a long time. My first computer, purchased in 1988, was an IBM PC-AT clone boasting an 80286 CPU running at a blistering 12 MHz. It had a 14.4K modem and I started using CompuServe to get online. Initially running MS-DOS, over time I transitioned to IBM’s OS/2. This is how I came to use an email client known as PMMail from Blueprint Software Works. PMMail was the superlative email client for OS/2.

As OS/2 waned (and eventually collapsed) in the marketplace, PMMail was ported to Windows as PMMail 2000. So, my email history migrated to Windows without issue. I continued to use PMMail 2000 Pro for many more years. In fact, I used it until my employer forced me onto Outlook in 2006.

PMMAIL 2000 Windows

Even when forced to use Outlook I kept PMMail around. It was Win32 program that really did not run well on anything after Windows XP. For a long time, I maintained a Windows XP virtual machine with a copy working copy of PMMail installed. Sadly, that VM was lost to a hard drive failure.

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Smartphones & E-mail Addicts: My Personal Experience

I’ve carried a Blackberry 8100 (aka Pearl) for the past 18 months. I like it. Prior to this I carried a Motorola Razr V3, whose sole feature was its form factor. It was a great size & shape. Decent phone too, but not a “smart phone.”

For years I’ve watched as friends and associates jumped on the smart phone craze. Some had Treo’s, some Windows Mobile devices..heck, my wife’s employer issued her a Blackberry 7290 a year before I  broke down and bought my Pearl. I’m the early adopter in the family so that was a strange turn of the tables.

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