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[arewethereyet]

I was in when we went from handwritten to computer AARs. Being fire dept and low on the totem pole, we had zero-point-zero connectivity, and the computers were mainly hard-drives saving file space for needed paperwork. It made finding stuff a little easier for the geeks, I suppose, but we had to learn how to save to the proper file and so on.

Sure couldn't learn about incidents at other bases outside of the usual Air Force Times stuff, unless it was so bad they had to go through wing comms via either telex or that early Arpanet stuff and the Chief heard about it from the CSG Colonel.

We did, though, have the smoke alarms rigged to notify our alarm room in case a butterbar burnt his microwave popcorn in BOQ.

We are old.