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   williamcousert@gmail.com to Michael Black   
   Re: OCTUG sysop, Fred Wright   
   03 Jan 18 11:55:02   
   
   On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 10:34:04 AM UTC-8, Michael Black wrote:   
   > On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, 9937127@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   > > Fred died decades ago.  I remember his bbs 7145308226 octug!   
   > >   
   > But when?   
   >   
   > You've replied to a post from 1998, so maybe he was alive then, almost two   
   > decades ago.   
   >   
   > You replied to an old post, you didn't even quote the message you are   
   > replying to, and didn't even seem to reply properly since it isn't   
   > properly threaded.   
   >   
   >    Michael   
      
   I remember Fred. He sure liked to exaggerate a lot. He claimed back in the   
   80's that he owned a 100 gigabyte hard drive, during a time when the average   
   hard drive was no more than ten megabytes. I think he died in the early 90's.   
      
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