First post, by DosFreak
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I've used my DosFreak nick for quite awhile. I've been using it since 1998 on the internet. Can't really remember what I used before that but I do remember using "Batman" on some BBS's back in 1990. (Hey, I was 10 cut me some slack!).
Anyways I was thinking about changing my nick just for the heck of it......
When I was stationed overseas in the UK I had to perform auggie duty because the Threatcon level had increased for some reason I cannot remember and since the base was so small they had to pull people out of their workcenter to perform SP duties. So I would stand at the gate at the entrance to the base for hours on end and open and close the gate (manually). I'd drive around the base in the cop copy (base was really small so not much point to that. Then just for fun we'd perform building checks and some training exercises. All in all pretty cool but extremlly boring to a computer tech. 😉
Anyways since I was an SP for awhile I had to have a nickname. It just so happened that 8mm came out around that time and everyone was talking about "Machine". Well since I worked on computers, wore glasses, and was a pretty quite fellow, the name stuck. So my nick was "Machine". I cannot remember if I came up with it or if it was someone else.
So I'm thinking about using "Machine".
The only problem with the "Machine" nick is that it's not as friendly as "DosFreak".....if you consider that a problem.
The other possibility is using my real name which is helpfull since it seems more professional but typing my name which is 14 characters long is a PITA.
