We have a travel trailer (2017 Catalina) that we love. In fact, when we
made our move from Michigan to Virginia, it was our home for two months.
We only have a few (3) trips planned this summer, but that is due to some
other trips we have planned and balancing my wife's PTO. But, we love our travel trailer. It is nice that we have our home with us and has been
less expensive to stay at the campgrounds than get a hotel. Our first
trip of the season is next weekend with my sister and some of her
friends. We are staying in our "glamper" while many of her group are
staying in cabins. Anyway, looking forward to our maiden voyage of 2023. --Matt

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On 6/1/2023 6:12 AM, Mhansel739 wrote to Mike Dippel:

We have a travel trailer (2017 Catalina) that we love. In fact, when we
made our move from Michigan to Virginia, it was our home for two months.
We only have a few (3) trips planned this summer, but that is due to some other trips we have planned and balancing my wife's PTO. But, we love our travel trailer. It is nice that we have our home with us and has been
less expensive to stay at the campgrounds than get a hotel. Our first
trip of the season is next weekend with my sister and some of her
friends. We are staying in our "glamper" while many of her group are
staying in cabins. Anyway, looking forward to our maiden voyage of 2023. --Matt

Glamping beats motels any day!

Mike Dippel

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Mhansel739 wrote to Mike Dippel <=-

We have a travel trailer (2017 Catalina) that we love. In fact, when we made our move from Michigan to Virginia, it was our home for two
months. We only have a few (3) trips planned this summer, but that is
due to some other trips we have planned and balancing my wife's PTO.
But, we love our travel trailer. It is nice that we have our home with
us and has been less expensive to stay at the campgrounds than get a hotel.

I'd wished I had room for a small trailer, it seems like in mild
weather that it might make a nice guest suite. We had a deck area
with a bathroom just inside an exterior door that would have been
perfect, but don't know about loading - and we enclosed it and made it
into a patio...

I've loved the design of tiny houses of late - trailers and campers are
the original tiny house.



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I've loved the design of tiny houses of late - trailers and campers ar

Yes they kind of were the original tiny house. The issue with tiny
houses is where do you setup your retro equipment? (Yes, I know this is a non-technical message area). Just saying.
I like the idea of them - simple, small, efficient. If it was just me, no
wife or dogs, then maybe. I personally would be fine in the camper. But
working out of that for an extended period of time can be tough. I would
need a different layout - one with an office space or something.
We stayed in our camper for 2 months (November and December 2022) and
that was ok. Glad we had the camper instead of renting an apartment, etc.
But it was tough in the winter months and became a little "cramped" after
a while.
--Matt

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Re: Re: Lifestyle
By: Mhansel739 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jun 03 2023 05:29:50

Yes they kind of were the original tiny house. The issue with tiny
houses is where do you setup your retro equipment? (Yes, I know this
is a non-technical message area). Just saying.

I have the same problem with van living. No stable space for retro
equipment. However, i recall walking to a cafe that had a DEC terminal directly connected to a modem, and a cheat sheet with Hayes commands to
dial in to the local university modem pools. People were good about
sharing, mainly using it to check email while sipping their coffee. One
model of how to do retro-computing while living in cramped quarters.
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Mhansel739 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Yes they kind of were the original tiny house. The issue with tiny
houses is where do you setup your retro equipment? (Yes, I know this is
a non-technical message area). Just saying.

Where there's a will, there's a way. On Tiny House Nation, a show on
one of the cable channels, two guys built a trailer house with a
quilting table!


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Ben Collver wrote to Mhansel739 <=-

I have the same problem with van living. No stable space for retro equipment. However, i recall walking to a cafe that had a DEC terminal directly connected to a modem, and a cheat sheet with Hayes commands to dial in to the local university modem pools.

At the heyday of the dial-in era, there was a BBS called SF-Net that
had cheap PCs set up in coin-operated kiosks. You'd find nodes at BBSes
and coffee shops all over the city.

I lived next to a coffee shop/pub/discussion salon and toyed with the
idea of setting up short haul modems and having a BBS node in the back
room.

Here's a great article about the place - we had many BBS gettogethers
there in the '90s.

https://tinyurl.com/48s28sba






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Re: Re: Lifestyle
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ben Collver on Mon Jun 05 2023 07:42:00

At the heyday of the dial-in era, there was a BBS called SF-Net that
had cheap PCs set up in coin-operated kiosks. You'd find nodes at BBSes and coffee shops all over the city.

I like the sound of that. It's not only about jacking in, it's also
about getting out of the house and being in the same place with other
people.

I lived next to a coffee shop/pub/discussion salon and toyed with the
idea of setting up short haul modems and having a BBS node in the back room.

Here's a great article about the place - we had many BBS gettogethers there in the '90s.

Nice! A multi-generational club atmosphere. What do you think is the
nearest option to a BBS gettogether in this day and age?
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