No, I was using a larger font in my offline message editor for medical reasons. My 60-year-old eyes have a hard time reading smaller fonts,
even with glasses. So please take things like that into consideration
before saying things like what I quoted above. Bur for your
convenience I actually logged in to reply to your message.

I can remember the days when some BBS software on what are now "retro"
systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. I am not sure what it would look like
if it got quoted a bunch of times in a reply thread, but the original and "first quoting" didn't break anything here.

Getting old sucks and sometimes you have to do what you have to do.


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Re: Re: Modded Bbs's
By: MIKE POWELL to ROBERT WOLFE on Sat Mar 21 2026 09:26 am

systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. I am not sure what it would look like if it got quoted a bunch of times in a reply thread, but the original and

Some of us BBS on Commodores, Ataris, and other old computers, and we have to make 40 column quote blocks ;). It still happens.

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On 3/21/2026 9:26 AM, MIKE POWELL wrote to Robert Wolfe:

No, I was using a larger font in my offline message editor for medical reasons. My 60-year-old eyes have a hard time reading smaller fonts,
even with glasses. So please take things like that into consideration before saying things like what I quoted above. Bur for your
convenience I actually logged in to reply to your message.

I can remember the days when some BBS software on what are now "retro" systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. I am not sure what it would look like if it got quoted a bunch of times in a reply thread, but the original and "first quoting" didn't break anything here.

Getting old sucks and sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

I agree completely.
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Re: Re: Modded Bbs's
By: MIKE POWELL to ROBERT WOLFE on Sat Mar 21 2026 09:26 am

No, I was using a larger font in my offline message editor for medical reasons. My 60-year-old eyes have a hard time reading smaller fonts,
even with glasses. So please take things like that into consideration
before saying things like what I quoted above. Bur for your
convenience I actually logged in to reply to your message.

I can remember the days when some BBS software on what are now "retro" systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. I am not sure what it would look like if it got quoted a bunch of times in a reply thread, but the original and "first quoting" didn't break anything here.

Getting old sucks and sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

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i have contact lenses the help me see far. and i have 1.5 and 3.0 readers that I have to switch out so i can read text or work on super small things at work.

Gives me headaches.

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Hi Mro,
In a message to Mike Powell you wrote:

i have contact lenses the help me see far. and i have 1.5 and 3.0
readers that I have to switch out so i can read text or work on super
small things at work.

I can't see a damn thing close up. Left eye is too strong and right
eye is very very week. I got tired of leaving my glasses everywhere
(when I wear them I can't see anything unless it's up close) so about
a month ago I ordered progressive glasses from an online place, and
after a week or two of getting headaches and walking into walls I am
now used to moving my head and not my eyes and voila, I can read all
the time now! ;)

So for me switching to wearing them all the time was just so much easier.

... My girlfriend said I never listen to her, or something...


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Re: Re: Modded Bbs's
By: MIKE POWELL to ROBERT WOLFE on Sat Mar 21 2026 09:26 am

systems defaulted to ~40 chars/line. > am not sure what it would look like if it got quoted a bunch of times in > reply thread, but the original and "first quoting" didn't break anythin > here.

I'm on a Commodore 64 Ultimate and
for the most part I haven't had
issues but occasionally if
there are several levels of
quotes if can go off into the ether.


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Re: Re: Modded Bbs's
By: Tiny to Mro on Sun Mar 22 2026 06:33 am

I ordered progressive glasses from an online place, and after a week or two of getting headaches and walking into walls I am now used to moving my head and not my eyes and voila, I can read all the time now! ;)

Ive been wearing progressives for several years now, it did take a litte time to get used to looking from side to side.
Now I love them, also got the lenses that go dark in the sun.


Denn

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Tiny wrote to Mro <=-

I can't see a damn thing close up. Left eye is too strong and right
eye is very very week.

My dad had vision problems in one eye. I thought he should get a
monocle. He'd also need to trim his Santa beard down to something a
little edgier for full effect. Maybe a VanDyke with a waxed moustache?

(when I wear them I can't see anything unless it's up close) so about
a month ago I ordered progressive glasses from an online place, and
after a week or two of getting headaches and walking into walls I am
now used to moving my head and not my eyes and voila, I can read all
the time now! ;)

Progressives are a game-changer. My close-up vision is worse than my
distance, and I have some astigmatism. I've been wearing progressives
since 2006, I got my first pair at an optometrist in an old building on
the second floor, and my first steps with them were down an outdoor
wooden staircase. A bit harrowing, but as you mention, you learn to use
the zones of the lenses.

My mom got sick of switching glasses, so she got close up progressives
with no distance correction so she could wear them all the time.

So for me switching to wearing them all the time was just so much
easier.

... My girlfriend said I never listen to her, or something...

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i have contact lenses the help me see far. and i have 1.5 and 3.0 readers th I have to switch out so i can read text or work on super small things at work

Gives me headaches.

I wore contacts for most of my life. Have really got out of the habit the last year or two. I have found it is easier to take my glasses off to
read things that are up close vs. wearing the contacts and putting
cheaters on and off. As you mentioned headaches, I find I get fewer of
them that way, too.
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Re: Re: Modded Bbs's
By: MIKE POWELL to MRO on Sun Mar 22 2026 08:36 am

i have contact lenses the help me see far. and i have 1.5 and 3.0 readers
th I have to switch out so i can read text or work on super small things at work

Gives me headaches.

I wore contacts for most of my life. Have really got out of the habit the last year or two. I have found it is easier to take my glasses off to
read things that are up close vs. wearing the contacts and putting
cheaters on and off. As you mentioned headaches, I find I get fewer of
them that way, too.

i eventually got glasses a few years ago and i wear them to give my eyes a rest. i do wish i got on contact lenses sooner because they would have stopped my eyes from getting so bad. i heard they stop the changing of the eye's shape That leads to failing eyesight..


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Hi Poindexter,
On <Mon, 22 Mar 26>, you wrote me:

My mom got sick of switching glasses, so she got close up
progressives with no distance correction so she could wear
them all the time.

This is pretty much my reasoning as well. My mother did the same as
your's, but for slightly different reasons. She always wore glasses and
after she had her eyes fixed with lasers and didn't need them my nephew
would get upset she didn't look right.

... Please, not *another* learning experience!


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