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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 727 |
how many contacts did you have???
im interested in knowing how many contacts people had when they where swapping!!!
ill start things off
i had 101 contacts when i was busy in the mail trading swapping scene.
can you beat that!!!! i know some probables but cant be sure.
i think my good old friend barry - derbyshire ram had more but im interested in knowing how many other people had |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
In 1988/1989 I had about 20-25 at the max, after that it gradually became less & less .. In total I think I swapped with 100+ people. |
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SECRET MAN
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 336 |
I had over 160 contacts in 1987-1988 only in europe.The postman was more as angry.Every Day a big package with disks.
End of 1988: I got busted and had an new friend called:
Gravenreuth
Skinhead,Skid Row,Autopsy and Protector got busted,too.
That was hard |
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jailbird
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578 |
My swapping era was dated to 92-98, and just like TDJ, I had around 100+ contact all in all, swapping with ~ 25-30 at once.
Serbia had a terrible postal service those days. In the first few years when the economy was laying in the dirt and below, they didn't even had stamps. So I usually spent all my pocket money on sendings. Besides, I had to pay extra fee for sending disks. Later they started marking the stamps with letters (f.e., "R" was for regular packs), so at least they managed to avoid the devalvation of their fees. The stamps had other values almost every day as they tried to keep up with the german mark. So I started with cheating stamps and finally managed to save cash... Even years after the country passed its worst era, the post was still on the ground for some years with a lot of lost sendings and really expensive service... |
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SIDWAVE
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
1987-1988 I had around 200 contacts. In August 1988 i bought an A500, and cut contacts down to 20. Then i swapped 2-3 months, and stopped on C64 completely.
On the Amiga I had when i stopped in 1995, 40+ contacts - all legal warez only.
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Tch
Account closed
Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 512 |
I´ve just found a note from June 1991 which mourns about me having some 115 contacts and having to drop many of them (again).
And redirecting them to BaZe and MMC.
I think this was the largest amount of people I swapped with at a certain moment.
My first contacts-book contains 150 addresses.
The second is unfortunately lost,but that contained about the same amount.
Funny thing is that I became a mailman as my first job.
When the guy walking the route I lived in found out it was me that recieved all those envelopes,he begged me to loosen the spring closing the mailbox.
It was really strong. ;)
But my swapping was nothing compaired to R.C.S...
He had about 300 contacts when I last visited him in 1992.
There was a huge list on one of his walls where he could easily change pins (with different colours) so he could keep track of his sendings.
Now that was one hell of a MEGA-swapper! 8D |
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A3
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 362 |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Quote: im interested in knowing how many contacts people had when they where swapping!!!
ill start things off
i had 101 contacts when i was busy in the mail trading swapping scene.
can you beat that!!!! i know some probables but cant be sure.
i think my good old friend barry - derbyshire ram had more but im interested in knowing how many other people had
I had 10 contacts as maximum when I had most, but when they stopped I never got some knew, so I think I had 2 or 3 contacts left in 1992. But those few contacts were/is close friends of me.
Derbyshire Ram was my best contact and we started swapping with eachother in 1988 and till 1994. But we got contact nowdays. |
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Sixx
Registered: May 2005
Posts: 229 |
One question: Does swappers still exist? Exept for Derbyshire that is.. =)
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V-12
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 206 |
Swappers exists, of course! currently I have some contacts but I really cannot count them well, because some are active, some sens 1 sending per few months. but yes we are still on the way and we have more fun! nothing beats the feeling of opening the real letter and read the discnote :) |
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SECRET MAN
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 336 |
Quote: Swappers exists, of course! currently I have some contacts but I really cannot count them well, because some are active, some sens 1 sending per few months. but yes we are still on the way and we have more fun! nothing beats the feeling of opening the real letter and read the discnote :)
Its very hard to send to Poland.Its the same like irak
The german post is very expensive since we have the Euro.
Small package from Germany to Austria over 15 Euro. |
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