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    From Retro Guy@retroguy@novabbs.com to rocksolid.programming on Sun Dec 22 19:04:31 2024
    From Newsgroup: rocksolid.programming

    While configuring a BBS (Synchronet) that I run to host the HOBBES
    archive, I noticed an old OS/2 program in there that I wrote in 1996.

    I decided to unzip it and look at the .txt file and yep, it's my
    softare.

    I had forgotten about it (it's been 28 years!), but now I remember the
    emails I would get from surprisingly large companies saying they are
    using it. Including the request I got in 1999 asking if it's Y2K
    compliant, lol.

    It's just simply a program that will execute an OS/2 program at
    intervals (kinda like using cron): TIMEBOY.ZIP Notice in the .txt file
    that I use pulling usenet articles on a timer as an example. :)

    See, I was a "boy" in 1996 (not really) and now I'm a "guy"
    --
    Retro Guy
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