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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 |
Quote: i remember when i hade lunch break in school i always went home as i lived 5 minutes from school to check the mail box.. check some warez and got back to schoool.. some times i miss the golden era of mail swapping
Yeh, did the same thing in the golden summer of '88 .. I had a vacation job nearby, during lunchtime I hopped on my moped (vroom vroom) to check if there was anything for me.
Still remember the day that I had about 8 packages, including sendings from Bagder/Horizon & Cycleburner (then NOP)/Weird Science. Might actually have been one of the happiest days of my life :Z |
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Cmr
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Registered: Jun 2003
Posts: 23 |
That swapping costed me a lot of money in the past, cheating stamps or so was very difficult at some places in Belgium. But I enjoyed it, always nice having about 25 packages a day. Like most people, time was becoming more and more a problem, especially with 360 contacts in the good old days...
Nowadays I only keep on swapping with a few contacts, and this very slowly. |
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stash
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Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 343 |
i found this perfect glue to use.. and with one contact in sweden, we used the same package and stamps just changed the adresss and it worked for quit some time
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Axis
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Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 43 |
Quote: i remember when i hade lunch break in school i always went home as i lived 5 minutes from school to check the mail box.. check some warez and got back to schoool.. some times i miss the golden era of mail swapping
loool, the same here.. :-)
i'm running every day 5-6 minutes home, 5-6 minutes back and 2-4 minutes to look who is sending new stuff !!!
is this ill? |
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tomz
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Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 39 |
Around 1995-1997 era I had over 500 ctx in my addy book but I only swapped on a regular basis with about 150 ctx I wasn't always fast but I always tried to send a minimum of 3 disks per pack,although in a 6 month period in 1996 I was sending 5 disks per pack,cost me a lot of money and time but it was great receiving a disk and not knowing what was on them until you actually loaded them...
Long days even longer nights and what a buzzz
tomz/TIDE |
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dalezy
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 476 |
Quote: loool, the same here.. :-)
i'm running every day 5-6 minutes home, 5-6 minutes back and 2-4 minutes to look who is sending new stuff !!!
is this ill?
perfect behaviour i'd say.
even though i wasn't mailswapping, we had our daily sessions at the schoolyard, swapping stuff 'personally' =)
as soon as the lunchbreak came in, i headed home as well to check that stuff, because waiting some more 2 hours until school is over didn't seem possible at all. |
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PFromFac
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Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 6 |
Can't really remember how many contacts I had, But, in my top years as founder/member of the high ranked FAC I didn't do anything else than receiving and sending mailpackages, cracking a bit and having nights long of around the world conferencecalls.. I received loads of requests for swapping but I was in the fortunate position to choose whom to swap with...
I will start a topic on Swap Nostalgia about this, read it later.. |
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Jon
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Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 247 |
Funny how the entire concept of "contacts" differed in the US and Europe.
A US contact would get you on to certain BBSes or do one for one swaps over the modem. The only time I ever posted anything was to a guy in Sweden (who promised me a return package, but never came through for me!) US contacts would introduce you to other contacts (through Alliance conference calls, etc) who would then let you on to another board, etc etc etc... Much like modern day business "networking".
I met some great people this way, talked to some "infamous" sceners in the US and Europe through Alliance and some handy PBX numbers (including Rob Hubbard... at the time I had no idea who he was).
I had notebook page upon notebook page full of names and numbers... a lot of "no name" sceners, but more than a few notables.
Awesome days.
-Ninj |
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PFromFac
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Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 6 |
In those days the US was more advanced in digital exchange then we were (at least in my time 95-89). We did everything by regular (express)mail.. We even did use the "blindenpost" , special feature for people with a seeing disability, It was a lot cheaper but if your mail was checked you had a problem..
Anyway, what a days those old days.. |
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Lexi
Registered: Aug 2005
Posts: 11 |
I didnt have plenty of contacts. Just used to swap with about 10 people or so. I have choosen my contacts very wisely, so i didnt have to swap with hundreds of people to get the latest stuff and get our stuff spread. |
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