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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: FORTRAN
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 12:26:26
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Message Number 1301
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>All that Fortran can do, Pascal can do...
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Sorry. Wrong. Have you ever really gotten in to FORTRAN? Oh well.
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FORTRAN lets you do direct memory swapping and direct editing of
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low memory, Pascal emphatically does not. (Wirth would have a stroke
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if he thought anyone was trying that sort of trick in Pascal.)
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FORTRAN lets you declare numeric variables as Integer, Real, and
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Complex, Pascal doesn't. You might be able to kludge something in
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Pascal to deal with imaginary numbers, but it'd hurt. FORTRAN lets
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you declare double-precision and extended-precision variables that are
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64 bits wide; not Pascal. FORTRAN allows implied DO-loops; Pascal
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doesn't allow implied anything. FORTRAN allows the programmer to change
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the index in the middle of a FOR-NEXT loop; Pascal does not. (That
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itself leaves out a lot of really efficient programming techniques).
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If Pascal could really do everything FORTRAN could, do you really think
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FORTRAN would be as immensely popular as it is?
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--A "Death to Niklaus Wirth" Turtle
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Assembly Langua
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 12:33:29
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Message Number 1302
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>Model III, Model 4. Same difference. Yarg! Yarg! Yarg!
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C-64, Amiga. Same difference. (I have seen people actually make that
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assertion, in all seriousness.)
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: ATARI's and You
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 12:34:34
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Message Number 1303
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>There is nothing wrong with either IBM's or Pascal; if you compare
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>them with Atari 800's with Atari Basic.
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Well, I know this guy who took an Atari 800, built a bank-switched
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memory module and a really weird expansion box for it, and connected
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a meg of RAM and 6 disk drives to it...so thpth! And what's wrong
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with Atari Basic? So you have to dimension a string variable before
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you use it. So? pascal makes you use Packed Arrays, which are the
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same thing...THPTH!
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: BASIC
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 12:38:59
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Message Number 1304
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>...BASIC is a simplified and interpreted version of FORTRAN.
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Nope.
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From: RUFUS
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To: ANGEL
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Subject: 8 ball
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 15:21:33
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Message Number 1305
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But, when you smash the electronic one against a wall, it doesn't
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spill liquid all over the place. And with an electronic one, you can
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rig it to give the answer you want (give one to the boss who is debating
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giving you that raise).
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Disney Releases
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 15:23:52
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Message Number 1306
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You know where I saw Pinochio (sp?)? In what is now the XXX movie
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theatre on the Trail near Red Lobster. I wonder if they still show it?
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:)
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: YARG!
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 15:25:42
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Message Number 1307
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I really doubt the existance of Santa, but am holding fast to the
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Rudolph myth.
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From: RUFUS
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: FORTRAN
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 15:28:08
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Message Number 1308
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Not to mention FORTRAN is a better sounding word that Pascal. Pascal
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sounds like Pastal, Postal, and that kid in the "Rose is Rose" comic,
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Pasquale (or something like that).
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From: RUFUS
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To: ALL
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Subject: for sale...
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 21:18:33
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Message Number 1309
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Do YOU want to be pumped up??
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Well, I have an offer for you!
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A DP 1000 Gympak exercise set. This thing will exercise your
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arms, legs, shoulders, along with muscle groups you didn't
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know existed! It has 110 pounds of weights, a padded bench
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and has all the attachments for a whole lotta exercises.
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It'll go in the corner and takes up VERY little space (maybe
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eight square feet).
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Oh yea, it is IBM compatible!!
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ALL THIS FOR ONLY $140 o.b.o.
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Contact me on this BBS for more information.
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From: KEN OBER
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: Dear IBM User..
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 22:26:36
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Message Number 1310
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Yeah, I Get Those Letters As Well....They Are Fools....Of Course,
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I Guess I Mislead Them, 'Cause ISubscribe To A /Few/ IBM Magazines
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Under The Name:
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T.Y. Robinson
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Pres. Robinson Compu Serv, Inc.
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So, That Might Mislead Them, But My Dad Got Me A Magazine Subscription
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Under That Name, 'Cause He Thought It Was Spiffy-Keen...
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From: KEN OBER
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To: ALL
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Subject: Depressed...
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Date & Time: 01/09/90 22:29:34
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Message Number 1311
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Someone Get Me Out Of This Depressed Mood Real Quick! I Can't Stand
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All The Non-Use And Lurkers On My Board.....Ihave Like 40 New Messages
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A Month Or So Ago, And It Has Been Down-Hill Since Then.....The Other
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Day I didn't Get One New Message....I Had Resolved The Day I Opened
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My Board That The Day I DOn't Get Any New Messages Is The Day I Take
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It Down.....And I'm Seriously Considering It, And I Scares Me! Someone
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Talk Me Out Of It Quick!!!!
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REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: FORTRAN
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 00:31:02
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Message Number 1312
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Dear the ever-Pascal bashing Turtle,
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Pardon me. We're talking about different levels here. Okay --
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GRANTED: Pascal does not have an "imaginary number" type. GRANTED:
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Pasccal cannot self-modify in the middle of itself. GRANTED: Pascal
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is slower, requires all variables to be previously defined, and, in
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general, is not an efficient way of writing programs.
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Also, GRANTED: Fortran was used to encode the Voyager spacecraft.
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However, there is NO computation that Fortran (or any other major
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imperative language) that Pascal -- or any other major imperative
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language -- couldn't do. (Now -- whether or not they could do them
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in real time is another question.) Programming techniques differ widely.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: ATARI's and You
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 00:38:21
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Message Number 1313
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Atari Basic is completely unlike any other Basic known to mankind.
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1. There ARE no string arrays, and strings have a maximum length
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of 255. (Not much of a chance of simulating them, either!)
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2. The computer has an OFF (or BYE) command, dropping you to the
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"Atari 800 -- Notepad" mode.
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3. All error messages were encoded ("ERROR 37 IN LINE 500") -- I
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wrote an automatic code to take care of it.
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4. ML programming on the Atari was a BITCh, requiring one to go
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from the TOP of memory -- making sure one doesn't accidently
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re-draw over the screen, and tricking the 'pooter into thinking
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you have less memory, and lots of other things...
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5. The Atari THOUGHT it could only have three colors (okay -- four,]
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including the background) on the screen at once. To change this,
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one must change the colors using a special interrupt while
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the TV screen (or monitor) is in mid-flight between lines. You
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have EXACTLY enough time to change colors... if you bitch a lot.
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6. The 6502 processor has three registers. Three.
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(Geeez -- I'm getting away from the Atari Basic into the
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Atari in general. Now returning to your regularly scheduled
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program, already in progress.)
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7. Atari Basic regularly clocked in as the slowest Basic available
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for microcomputers in its price range.
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8. Because Atari Basic was etched in ROM, there was no easy way to
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fix the two major bugs (known since about six months after the
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computer was created) in it. By then, programmers had employed
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the bugs as part of their programming style... so fixing them
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would destroy their programs.
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I'm glad someone found a use for his Atari. I enjoyed it while it
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lasted; but I've moved on.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: Disney Releases
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 00:54:37
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Message Number 1314
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XXX-rated Pinocchio? Sounds wonderful...
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"Oh... Pinocchio, Pinocchio... Do that to me, again, with your
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nose! Ohhhhh!!!!!!" -- the Good Fairy.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: YARG!
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 00:57:47
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Message Number 1315
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Yes; I've always wondered exactly WHAT Rudolph has been drinking to
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make his nose so red...
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: Depressed...
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 00:59:14
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Message Number 1316
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Dear Ken,
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Terribly Sorry To Hear You Are In A Depressed Mode. Think Of The
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Bright Side Of Things: At Least You're Not Running Your BBS On An
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IBM! Always Remember:
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(background music...)
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Just remember that you're standing on a planet that evolving,
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And revolving at three thousand miles an hour....
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(fade off, re-enter with different music...)
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Always look on the bright side of life! (whistles...)
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Always look on the bright side of life! (whistles...)
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(fade off, re-enter much more changed...)
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Oh, I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay,
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I slep all night, and I work all day,
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I wear high heals, my blue jeans, suspenders, and a bra.
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(fade off, leaving behind Monty Python in the distance.)
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Chip P. Unicorn
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===========
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Disney Releases
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 07:15:29
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Message Number 1317
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Your ONE sick unicorn. No, it was the G-rated version.....
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SICKO!!
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: YARG!
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 07:16:06
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Message Number 1318
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Rudolph drinks lighter fluid. It also helps him fly.
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: Disney Releases
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 16:06:43
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Message Number 1319
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>You're one sick unicorn.
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Thank you. I always appreciate compliments.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Languages
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 16:45:41
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Message Number 1320
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>There is NO computation that Fortran...[can do] that Pascal...
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>couldn't do.
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Tsk, tsk, tsk. As a theoretical computer scientist, you should know
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better than that. Machine language is, of course, the lowest level of
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programming, and absolutely anything the computer is capable of can be
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done in machine language by definition. High-level languages are
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essentially constructs designed to take a finite set of expressions
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and convert them into machine code; however, since there are a finite
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number of expressions in any high-level language and there is not a
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corrosponding one-to-one mapping between the high-level expressions and
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every possible meaningful sequence of machine-language instructions,
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the high-level language MUST represent a subset of all meaningful
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sequences of machine-language instructions. Simply put, there are things
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you can do in assembly that you can't in a high-level language.
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Now then, when we compare two high-level languages, there is one of
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two possible conditions. Either the high-level languages have equivalent
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sets of expressions which will generate equivalent sets of machine-
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language instructions, in which case the languages are essentially
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identical, or they don't, in which case they're not. Given two languages
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which are NOT identical, then, there are three possible conditions:
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the expressions generated in Language A are a complete subset of those
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in Language B, the expressions generated by Language A have no points
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in common with those of Language B, or the expression sets of A and B
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intersect. Given that neither Pascal nor Fortran contains the other
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as a subset, but they do have expressions which are the same, the
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conclusion is that the machine level instruction sets generated by
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Pascal and Fortran are intersecting sets. Therefore, there must exist
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a program or program segment which can be implemented in one but not the
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other. QED.
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--A theoretical Turtle
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Disney Releases
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 19:34:59
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Message Number 1321
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Somehow, I knew you'd say that. Have you ever caught a cold that
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effected your brain? I couldn't speak right all day long. I'd say
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"Boy, you could use thock sherapy" and other things. Boy...my brain is
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still aching..
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From: RUFUS
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To: ALL..
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Subject: Me..
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Date & Time: 01/10/90 19:37:44
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Message Number 1322
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I really should stop switching topics in mid-message, but I'm so used
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to doing it. I'll try be best to stop......
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From: DONTHEN
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To: SAURON
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Subject: IBM's
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Date & Time: 01/11/90 12:13:35
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Message Number 1323
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> The more I learn about IBM's and their clones, the less I want one.
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This is understandable. The only real thing they have going for them
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is software support. I've noticed that only about 10% of the commercial
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and shareware/PD stuff for the IBM is really good, whereas it seems
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about 25% of the stuff for CP/M and TRSDOS is... but that's 25% of maybe
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20,000 programs as compared to 10% of 200,000. Still, if being able
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to run the latest version of Brand-Name business programs isn't the
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most important thing in your computing life, they lose most of their
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appeal.
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From: DONTHEN
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: VGA
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Date & Time: 01/11/90 12:17:01
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Message Number 1324
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The Amiga's hi-res mode does go up to around 768 x 440 or something odd
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like that (it's the 640x400 mode in overscan), but it still "only" has
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4096 colors onscreen at once. A lot of the digitization programs for
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the Amiga advertise themselves as digitizing in 2.5 million colors,
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which they do... but the built-in hardware can't display it that way!
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They use 24-bit color (instead of the normal 4-bit color the Amiga uses)
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so it will match high-end graphics devices used in video production.
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Some of Digiview's products will use dithering to get 100,000 "apparent"
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colors onscreen in the HAM mode, but it's by alternating colors, the
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same way Apple ][ games get 64 colors onscreen instead of 4 or 8. It's
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just a lot less noticeable if you start out with 4096 colors than if
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you start out with 8 on a 280x192 screen, or whatever the Apple uses.
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There is a graphics coprocessor card coming out for the Amiga soon
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that uses the same processor the Macintosh II does, and gets 259 colors
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out of the 16 million color palette onscreen at once. It's probably
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slower than the normal Amiga mode is, but since most professional video
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work is done capturing each image to a frame buffer instead of trying
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to do real-time displays, it's not a disadvantage. It is also capable
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of doing built-in overlay processing and scrolling/wipe effects, which
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the Macintosh II can't.
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From: RUFUS
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To: BAD MOVIE LOVERS...
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Subject: It's...
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Date & Time: 01/11/90 16:36:41
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Message Number 1325
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A Bad Movie Fest on TNT.
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Friday night starting at 10:50 p.m.
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"Night of the Lepus"-Giant carnivorous bunnies go around Arizona.
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1 a.m. "War of the Worlds"-Eeek, they're here!
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3 a.m. "Dark Star"-I dunno much about this one.
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I havn't seen "Night of the Lepus" but Turtle said it was good. I
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havn't seen "Dark Star", but think it was a college film extended?
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I may not like Ted Turner, but his taste in movies is darn good.
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So break out a blank tape or two, warm up the popcorn, and sit down
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with a really bad movie.
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From: CHARLES DITTELL
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: IBM's
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Date & Time: 01/11/90 19:08:59
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Message Number 1326
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Is this discussion STILL going on? There are plenty of reasons why the
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AT configuration is probably the best all-around compromise between
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speed, flexibility, COST, ease of maintenance, choice of software,
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quality of software, and compatibility with most of what's out there.
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You can argue forever, but once you clearly define the uses for your
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next computer, if you stay unemotional about it all, you'll choose
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at (or if cost's a factor at the 'at' level, xt)...
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From: TURTLE
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: *
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Date & Time: 01/11/90 23:38:35
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Message Number 1331
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IBM XT compats can be had for around $400. An interesting thing about
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most of the really cheap IBM's is that they come with DR-DOS instead
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of MS-DOS (since licenses for DR-DOS are cheaper)...and DR-DOS is by
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far the better operating system. It's still got a lot of the stupid
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boneheaded MS-DOS misfeatures (like no hash index table in the directory
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and that really moronic "everything above 640K is video RAM, right?"
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design flaw), but it's smaller and faster than Mush-DOS, doesn't have
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all of Mush's weird bugs, and has a few more commands...
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--A discriminating Turtle
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From: ANGEL
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: 8 ball
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Date & Time: 01/12/90 00:47:48
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Message Number 1332
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> But, when you smash the electronic one against a wall, it doesn't
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> spill liquid all over the place.
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Just one more reason not to buy one. And if your boss decides not
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to give you that raise, even after you rigged the electronic fortune
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teller, the 8-ball would be much more satisfying to break over his
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head and see the liquid spread all over his toupee.
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From: ANGEL
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: It's...
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Date & Time: 01/12/90 00:56:53
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Message Number 1333
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! "Dark STar" hardly ever gets aired
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on TV (for good reasons), I would have missed it if you hadn't posted.
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Thanks, I'll set my VCR now. Catch it, it's a wonderful flick....
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Was produced as a final thesis project for a Directing student at
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UCLA. Done on a $5000 budget (and looks like they didn't spend a
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penny more!) The actors are students and the sets are poorly
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disguised dorm rooms. But it's great! Mostly because of the direction,
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the kid who directed it was John Carpenter of "Halloween" fame.
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===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Depressed...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 15:38:17
|
||
Message Number 1335
|
||
|
||
HEY..I'M ON YOUR BOARD BUT WHEN I LOG ON IT GIVES ME A LOT OF "STUFFt(
|
||
LIKE THAT AND I CAN'T GET PAST IT...HELP!!!!!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: <///>
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 17:19:57
|
||
Message Number 1336
|
||
|
||
FURRY PARTY!
|
||
F U R R Y P A R T Y !
|
||
F U R R Y P A R T Y !
|
||
------------------------------------
|
||
When: Saturday, January 20, 1990.
|
||
Where: Turtle's apartment, on US 301 by the airport (leave E-mail
|
||
if you need directions)
|
||
Why: Why not?
|
||
|
||
There'll be munchies, juggling foxes, movies, and all manner of general
|
||
weirdness. Everyone is invited! Mark your calendar, make your plans,
|
||
be there or be Tofu (in the immortal words of furry legend Watts
|
||
Martin)!
|
||
|
||
Times: Starting around 5? Ending Ghod only knows when.
|
||
|
||
An Anarchy Now, Inc. production.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: 8 ball
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 17:34:31
|
||
Message Number 1338
|
||
|
||
Ahh..but the electronic one has sharp points which would enter the head
|
||
to add that extra feeling of pain. The 8-ball ones are to blunt.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: It's...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 17:35:41
|
||
Message Number 1339
|
||
|
||
I've seen it at Video Library in Palm Plaza at the corner of
|
||
Bee Ridge & McIntosh.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: <///>
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 17:37:54
|
||
Message Number 1340
|
||
|
||
Mark me down. We can show the Cal-Arts tapes. When can we get together
|
||
and edit it. And will there be any archdemons there??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
Subject: ALot of stuff?
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 04:40:39
|
||
Message Number 1341
|
||
|
||
You may have the same problem a few others have had...try switching
|
||
down to 300 baud and see what happens...the problem with some people
|
||
having to call at 300 'cause my modem doesn't work right with their
|
||
modems should be fixed in a week when Ifinally get my 2400 back from
|
||
AProtek...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ALL FURRYS!
|
||
Subject: welp...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 04:42:18
|
||
Message Number 1342
|
||
|
||
I'm trying to start a Furry base on my board....It is getting a few
|
||
posts, but what Ineed is a few people who actually know what they are
|
||
doing besides Turtle, Donthen, & Rufus chattin' up a storm...so please
|
||
call!
|
||
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
|
||
If you have problems connecting, try at 300 baud...my modem doesn't work
|
||
right with some certain types of modems...but this should be fixed in
|
||
a week when Iget my 2400 back from Aprotek!
|
||
|
||
What's happened to Turtle? he hasen't called in awhile! ::Hint::
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: CYBERPUNK
|
||
Subject: bbs
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 07:39:36
|
||
Message Number 1343
|
||
|
||
I tried. I called. It rang. And rang. And rang. And rang. Sorry.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: MSTF app
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 07:42:09
|
||
Message Number 1344
|
||
|
||
I didn't know one was requested until just now! But besides that, the
|
||
press is down still (it got cold, and once it was finally warmed up,
|
||
the power company decided a rolling blackout would be a really nifty
|
||
thing to do to people who left computers running while staying in Ohio
|
||
for a month). There'll be an administrative session after the MSTF
|
||
get-together on the 20th (which I haven't announced yet, so, hey, there'
|
||
will be an MSTF get-together on the 20th! -- details later) at which
|
||
time some revisions to the current application will be discussed...
|
||
perhaps shortening it from its current 14 page mass to something a bit
|
||
less unreasonable. Once they're re-done, a unit will be moved to
|
||
Sarasota, so you can get an app from Turtle after that.
|
||
Fox
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: IBM VGA
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 07:47:55
|
||
Message Number 1345
|
||
|
||
But it's still not bit-mapped, so I don't think a HAM mode is even
|
||
possible. I'll hafta think about it, and my brain isn't in think mode
|
||
right now, so...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Grafix
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 07:49:31
|
||
Message Number 1346
|
||
|
||
(... or a Silicon Graphics Iris... AND a PC-Z)
|
||
|
||
Even better, VGAhas a hell of a time MOVING things on the screen. The
|
||
Amiga has the right chips for the job, and honestly, although I've seen
|
||
a GREAT deal of IBM-compatible software, I really have yet to see any
|
||
that is impressive... not even the demos, really. Again, tho, IBM has
|
||
missed the mark by going half-way. "Very Good Attempt" for the acronym.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: LISP & Scheme
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 07:55:53
|
||
Message Number 1347
|
||
|
||
LISP is good with list-intensive work, eh? I'd never have guessed.
|
||
Ahem. Uhm, oh yeah, do you have Scheme for Z80 CP/M-compatible systems?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Your Messages
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 07:59:58
|
||
Message Number 1348
|
||
|
||
That's Two In A Row. You Know, There's Something About Your Messages
|
||
That I Can't Quite Put My Finger On That Really Screws With My Mind In
|
||
A Way That Makes Me Want To Break Common Household Objects.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Amiga/PC-Z/Sun
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 08:12:44
|
||
Message Number 1350
|
||
|
||
Sounds like the perfect trio to me. Of course, I'll need a grant....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 08:20:59
|
||
Message Number 1351
|
||
|
||
It WILL happen. Of course, we had a sort-of gallop to see the current
|
||
Disney animated feature, but it wasn't well-announced, so it ended up
|
||
being a small group.
|
||
|
||
Other interesting news: AKIRA will come out in FULL RELEASE sometime
|
||
within the next three months. In English... not subtitled. That's a
|
||
good target for a "furry fest", neh?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 08:32:07
|
||
Message Number 1352
|
||
|
||
Lance Rund? You wanna get us arrested or something? (grin)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
To: ALL FURRIES
|
||
Subject: AN MSTF PARTY
|
||
Date & Time: 01/12/90 08:34:04
|
||
Message Number 1353
|
||
|
||
The first-Saturday-in-January MSTF party has moved back to Sarasota,
|
||
and will be followed by a full-fledged miniature real-live immitation
|
||
FURRY PARTY! All are invited. I think things will probably start off
|
||
around noon with the traditional Le Croissant picnick, then move to
|
||
the Trutle's place for the FURRY PARTY. Rufus will bring the CalARTS
|
||
tape, I'll bring my collection (which has a few new additions), Donthen
|
||
will bring his collection of Furversions for those uninitiated, and a
|
||
special treat, Lance Rund is sending me a box of YARF #0's to give out
|
||
FREE to all that attend! It should be fun, with plenty of fur and
|
||
general weirdness (brought to you by Turtle), and all are invited...
|
||
possible guest of honor: Juan Alfonso (if I can get him up here,
|
||
otherwise you're stuck with me again). See ya there!
|
||
The Fox
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: LISP & Scheme
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 09:57:50
|
||
Message Number 1355
|
||
|
||
> Do you have Scheme for Z80 CP/M-compatible systems?
|
||
|
||
Hmmm. Well, as a matter of fact, I have a dialect of Lisp called
|
||
iLISP, which is based on the Scheme dialect; it's a shareware version
|
||
that I haven't sent in my money for. It's kicking around on one of my
|
||
CP/M library disks....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 10:51:32
|
||
Message Number 1356
|
||
|
||
Wow...spiffy...keen-o...neat.....ribbit! And don't say "I'll bite you
|
||
" or I'll get really ticked and dump a bottle of Nair on you and watch
|
||
as your hair falls out!
|
||
HA HA HA HA! <--evil laugh.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 10:52:37
|
||
Message Number 1357
|
||
|
||
>Lance Rund? You wanna get us arrested or something? (grin)
|
||
Hmmm...that's not such a bad idea. I think he needs to apply for a
|
||
grant from the government for his artwork.
|
||
|
||
WHERE'S MY YARF?????
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: AN MSTF PARTY
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 10:54:20
|
||
Message Number 1358
|
||
|
||
Actually, I think Crystal should be guest of honor, but only if she
|
||
makes some more of that yummy cake again. And I will bring my new
|
||
drink I've created, which includes Mountain Dew and one other secret
|
||
(non-alcoholic) ingredient. And oh yes, we WILL be going to a
|
||
copy shop, won't we, Mr. Fox.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: ALot of stuff?
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 11:11:43
|
||
Message Number 1359
|
||
|
||
Thanks for the advice, I promise to try...by the way, I hope you didn't
|
||
delete my account!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CYBERPUNK
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: bbs
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 14:41:53
|
||
Message Number 1360
|
||
|
||
well, that's because it's down now, i am geting the registered version
|
||
of it and then it will be up.
|
||
sorry for the inconveniences(sp)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Duh!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 15:22:04
|
||
Message Number 1361
|
||
|
||
Remember!? Hello!? Is anyone home!? DUH! My name is Bart!?!?!
|
||
|
||
remember? We were all talking about when you were going to send ME
|
||
MY application at Rufuscon, and Usaid you'd get one to me right away!
|
||
|
||
hehehehe....I guess you have abad memory, eh?
|
||
|
||
-Ken obeer
|
||
|
||
WOOPS!
|
||
|
||
-Ken Ober
|
||
(AKA- TRR)
|
||
|
||
Do call my board people, it's fun!
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Break Objects?
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 15:25:50
|
||
Message Number 1362
|
||
|
||
But why!? hehehehe So, my messages can be /slightly/ annoying...
|
||
How do they screw with your mind? DO they make you see multiple
|
||
images of your computer or something like that? In that case it may
|
||
not be my messages, you may be on some sort of mind-altering drug
|
||
that would make you forget about my MSTFapplication or something
|
||
like that, eh?
|
||
|
||
-Ken Ober
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: PC-Z!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 15:28:24
|
||
Message Number 1363
|
||
|
||
Okay, do tell me what the heck this thing is and why it is so special!?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: AHEM!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 15:30:33
|
||
Message Number 1364
|
||
|
||
First Saturday In January, eerrr, that's passed already...let's make
|
||
it February, eh?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
Subject: No Problem!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 15:32:19
|
||
Message Number 1365
|
||
|
||
If it has, just get a new one! ANyways, I'm sure it hasen't yet,
|
||
unless it has been like 3 mnonths....Isay I delete non-users every month
|
||
but i'm so lazy that it is more like every 3-months....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: welp...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 15:55:14
|
||
Message Number 1366
|
||
|
||
>What's happened to Turtle?
|
||
|
||
Well, that's a sad and tragic thing. You see, he was in the mountains of
|
||
Ceylon hunting white leopards, which he usually does on weekends, and he
|
||
stumbled across this top-secret communist military base where they're
|
||
testing this new ultimate weapon that turns everyone in the world into
|
||
clones of Dan Quayle, and so naturally he tried to steal the plans for
|
||
it and bring them back to the civilized world so our scientists could
|
||
start working on one for OUR side and once again achieve Quayle Parity
|
||
and restore the balance of power and stuff, only he forgot about the
|
||
eighteen German shepherds and the 500 soldiers with automatic weapons,
|
||
and his stolen MiG-23 ran out of fuel, see, and he crashed atop this
|
||
illegal drug lab, and... Don't worry, though, he's all better now.
|
||
--A harrassed Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: IBM VGA
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 16:00:00
|
||
Message Number 1367
|
||
|
||
>But it's still not bit-mapped...
|
||
|
||
You're not serious, I hope. Even IBM wouldn't be /that/ stupid...would
|
||
they...??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: AN MSTF PARTY
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 16:02:11
|
||
Message Number 1368
|
||
|
||
If you're mixing something with Mountain Dew, it damn well BETTER be
|
||
alcoholic or you can be arrested for Mountain Dew Desecration. Heretic!
|
||
Mountain Dew is sacred.
|
||
--A caffeinated Turtle
|
||
You know, I drank eight cans of the stuff before work last night, and
|
||
I was shaking for several hours...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: PC-Z!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 16:04:47
|
||
Message Number 1369
|
||
|
||
There's a text file about the PC-Z in the download menu...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: AN MSTF PARTY
|
||
Date & Time: 01/13/90 23:33:34
|
||
Message Number 1370
|
||
|
||
Trust me...it's just to boost the punch AND phlegm production in the
|
||
Mountain Dew. Drinking eight cans is NOT good. I hate when I get the
|
||
shakes, it's real annoying.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Gods/Religion
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 17:16:16
|
||
Message Number 1372
|
||
|
||
A Creationist Donthen, eh?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Grafix
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 19:09:38
|
||
Message Number 1373
|
||
|
||
Case in point: Try the Commodore 64 version of Test Drive, and listen to
|
||
the awesome audio tracks produced by only three voices. Then try the
|
||
IBM version of Test Drive, with only one voice, with the sound of a
|
||
terribly tuned clarinet. Quite a difference. THEN, try the AMIGA
|
||
version of Test Drive, and throw BOTH the other machines away. And as
|
||
for graphix, well, the IBM doesn't have much better graphix then the
|
||
commodore 64, at least with the Hercules graphix adapter, but the
|
||
Amiga, WOW! The scrolling of the graphix is totaly without competition
|
||
(Except for that awsome game at Sarasota Square Mall, called, oh, I
|
||
forgot, but the 3-D data base is AWESOME!) Anyway, anyone who has
|
||
made such comparisons will (unless there brainwashed by the IBM
|
||
communist movement) undoubtedly realize that there is a lot to be said
|
||
on this subject. As for prices, well, buy an IBM, stock. Then by an
|
||
Amiga. With the IBM, you would have to buy the graphic card, for
|
||
whichever monitor you have, be it CGA, VGA, Amber, or whatever, then
|
||
you would of course need the Sound interface device to be able to even
|
||
get marginal music to listen too. Meanwhile, the Amiga is well on it's
|
||
way down the course, playing in full stereo, and the graphics make you
|
||
swerve in your seat. I ask you, which is the more worthwhile machine.
|
||
Also, with a bridge the price of a cheap disk drive, you can have
|
||
complete IBM compatibility, whithout the need for all the other cards
|
||
for color monitors, audio, etc... What'll it be, boys?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: ADAM!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 19:21:22
|
||
Message Number 1374
|
||
|
||
Definetly a better choice for game machines...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Grafix
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 19:25:45
|
||
Message Number 1375
|
||
|
||
The IBM version of Test Drive comes with two disks. One for VGA/CGA
|
||
mode, and the other for the Herc Graphics Adapter. The VGA version IS
|
||
very nice, but the screen updating is so much slower then that of the
|
||
Hercules graphics adapter. I mean, who likes to drive a car in a series
|
||
of visual "clicks"? But at least each click /looks/ good. BAH!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ATARI's and You
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 19:29:28
|
||
Message Number 1376
|
||
|
||
Well, actually, Atari at one time developed a cartridge for their
|
||
AT-800XL that was for Cable channel interfacing, and it still does the
|
||
job quite well. The cartridge was called Graphi-Gen, and was designed
|
||
for use by cable companies to use as an actual channel on the cable
|
||
network. The program was nothing more then a screen swap program, with
|
||
a midscreen scroll, that could be asigned display times, and you can
|
||
edit the scrolls and each of the swapping screens. Storer cable was the
|
||
first cable company to fall for this little gen-lock cartridge, buying
|
||
almost 1200 of these units to use on condo installations, for their
|
||
"in-house" information channels. Well, about 3 years ago, Storer had
|
||
a massive "garage sale" of these computers, selling them from anywhere
|
||
between $50.00 to $150.00, including the software. Well, unfortunately,
|
||
I now have to deal with these old 800XLs, and they are really a piece
|
||
of trash. The cartridge/program is, well, definetly something to be
|
||
desired, and well, I get to play pac-man at least twice a day! Other
|
||
then that, we have found these computers completely un-usable. so...
|
||
|
||
TTTHHHHPPPPPPTTTTTT!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Analog...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 19:47:23
|
||
Message Number 1377
|
||
|
||
Also, another trick that the Amiga uses to make it's graphics "look"
|
||
like higher resolution then it really is is by using an analog video
|
||
output. In this manner, the Amiga can control the actual brightness
|
||
of each individual pixel through processing, and with half lit pixels,
|
||
the resolution fades along with the light, also affecting the shade of
|
||
colors. This is the way you can get 4096 colors on one screen, by
|
||
controlling the brightness and shading of these pixels through analog
|
||
output.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: welp...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 20:00:08
|
||
Message Number 1379
|
||
|
||
Who wants to call at 300 baud! ::HINT::
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Mountain Dew!_!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 20:07:48
|
||
Message Number 1380
|
||
|
||
I'll vouche for that! Christ! I drank four cans of Mountain Dew at
|
||
work, and when I came home, I wras tippinf im a quiet scgramblped mammor
|
||
akd cirudn!t gyt mi tupping in orger toms;4-pkw;vrp,r;,,;sAAAHHHHHH!!!
|
||
CAFFEINE!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: Grafix
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 21:30:10
|
||
Message Number 1381
|
||
|
||
Nice case, but I'll stick with my Sinclair ZX-81.
|
||
YARG! YARG!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: Gods/Religion
|
||
Date & Time: 01/14/90 23:26:50
|
||
Message Number 1382
|
||
|
||
> A Creationist Donthen, eh?
|
||
|
||
No.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Welp...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/15/90 03:02:18
|
||
Message Number 1383
|
||
|
||
The Ridiculously Complete Guide to BBSes in the Local Calling Area
|
||
(you know, the /real big/ one in the [I]nformation part of the
|
||
[S]how Neat Stuff menu) has once again been updated by Yours Truly...
|
||
check it out, download it, feed it to the dog, do SOMETHING with it,
|
||
so I don't feel like it was a /complete/ waste of time.
|
||
--An industrious Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: IBM's
|
||
Date & Time: 01/15/90 16:38:08
|
||
Message Number 1384
|
||
|
||
[voice over]
|
||
"IBM BOWL II...This time its WAR!!!!"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: The Game
|
||
Date & Time: 01/15/90 16:48:53
|
||
Message Number 1385
|
||
|
||
Godd points made.....The game you were thinking of that is at SS Mall
|
||
is Hard Drivin' made by ATARI no less....There was an ad for the Amiga
|
||
in AMiga world (who does Commodore do that? They advertise their
|
||
computers in magazines for people who /already own/ their computers!)
|
||
ANyways, on the monitor, there was a game that looks remarkabely like
|
||
Hard Drivin'.....We may have it at home for the Amiga very soon boys &
|
||
girls!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: 300 Baud
|
||
Date & Time: 01/15/90 16:53:07
|
||
Message Number 1386
|
||
|
||
Well, when Iget my 2400 back from Aprotek we will not have that
|
||
problem, no will we!?!?! That's *IF* they ever get it back to me...
|
||
ARRGGG!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: TV
|
||
Date & Time: 01/15/90 21:33:23
|
||
Message Number 1387
|
||
|
||
In my quest to absorb all the TV programming I can, I have picked out
|
||
two shows and one movie to tell you, the public, about.
|
||
1) Around the World in 80 Days-sounds like a book, doesn't it? Well,
|
||
Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, is attempting to follow the path
|
||
made by Phineas Fogg ( or Fineas Phogg, or whatever). The first 2 of
|
||
7 parts have been on, but you can catch the next five one hour parts
|
||
on A & E on Sunday at 8 p.m. It's probaly on at other odd times around
|
||
the week. This is a MUST SEE!
|
||
2) The Simpsons-yea, that great American family is on EVERY WEEK!
|
||
8:30 p.m. on channel 28 (FOX). It is opposite Around the World..., but
|
||
that's why the VCR was invented. A MUST SEE. Oh yea, there will be
|
||
about 5-6 Simpson shirts coming out soon. Be on the look out, and the
|
||
first person to spot 'em, please post a message.
|
||
3) Killbots-this is a really awful movie. This thing stinks to high
|
||
hell. It was on at midnight, so I figured it would at least be funny.
|
||
The basic plot is these teenagers get locked in a mall where these
|
||
security robots go on a killing spree (seems they got struck by
|
||
lightning). After two of the eight teens get killed, the rest of 'em
|
||
get propane tanks and assault rifles to kill these lazer shootin'
|
||
robots. This is a really bad movie. Avoid it at ALL costs. It isn't
|
||
worth the magnetic tape it's on. YUCK! DO NOT WATCH!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SIDEWINDER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Rath...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/15/90 22:41:39
|
||
Message Number 1388
|
||
|
||
May the rath of ROY LEAP, and the ever present BIG 13 be upon you!! But
|
||
then you could probably care less, as Turtles can dig down and stay a
|
||
comfy 72 deg. Mean while the rest of us have to stay topside and live
|
||
with whatever type of weather our wacky hacker chooses!
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SIDEWINDER
|
||
Subject: Rath...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 00:24:19
|
||
Message Number 1389
|
||
|
||
>Mean while the rest of us have to stay topside and live with whatever
|
||
>type of weather our whacky hacker chooses!
|
||
|
||
That's right! And you know what else? If I could make it snowy and hot
|
||
at the /same time/ outside, I WOULD!! Ha ha ha!
|
||
--A wacky hacker Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Me..
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:14:18
|
||
Message Number 1390
|
||
|
||
...and, on that topic, how's your pet goldfish?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: <///>
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:20:42
|
||
Message Number 1391
|
||
|
||
?Will there be any archdemons there?
|
||
|
||
I'll have Michael Charon (see Courts of Chaos) put a warding circle
|
||
on the floor of Turtle's apartment...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: MSTF app
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:22:48
|
||
Message Number 1392
|
||
|
||
Dear Bart Fox,
|
||
Shame on you! Thinking about SHORTENING the application for MSTFdom?
|
||
A pox on thee and thy house! May the golden unicorn of Paradise swish
|
||
his tail in your face! May the seventh son of your seventh son fail
|
||
Topology! May... uh, yes... where was I?
|
||
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the MSTF meeting.
|
||
There's ANOTHER Sci-Fi convention going on (a wee bit larger than
|
||
MSTF -- but not much!) called VulCon, and my girlfriend surprised me
|
||
with a free membership. (I wonder if it's Trek-related?) Should prove
|
||
interesting... I'll tell you about it when I return. Yip!
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: LISP & Scheme
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:27:00
|
||
Message Number 1393
|
||
|
||
Dear Bart,
|
||
I'm sure it's available for CP/M... but I only have it for <cough,
|
||
choke, choke> IBM. Write to Texas Instruments and ask (that's where I
|
||
got my version of Scheme.)
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:29:15
|
||
Message Number 1394
|
||
|
||
Amen! Actually, just before the LAST furry fest, I took a close friend
|
||
to see "The Little Mermaid". Wonderful animation (of course), and
|
||
good music. ("Under the Sea" was a terribly fun song.) (Do I use too
|
||
many parenthesis?)
|
||
Even still, the plot wasn't as charming as many of the old Disney
|
||
flicks.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: AN MSTF PARTY
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:34:23
|
||
Message Number 1395
|
||
|
||
> Mountain Dew is sacred.
|
||
|
||
The Turtle is developing a religion with Mountain Dew as a sacrament?
|
||
Sheesh! If Quetzalcoatl said, "Take; drink, this is my blood" and passed
|
||
around a can of Mountain Dew, I don't think the religion would have
|
||
started out as well. (By the way, what did old Quetzy use for his body?)
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: Grafix
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:39:47
|
||
Message Number 1396
|
||
|
||
Dear Rocky,
|
||
That, of course, assumes you buy your machine for games. Others
|
||
have better uses for their machines.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: ATARI's and You
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:41:24
|
||
Message Number 1397
|
||
|
||
Dear Rocky,
|
||
I started out on an old Atari 800. (Notice: NOT an 800XL. Not even
|
||
a 1200XL. I bought my machine BEFORE Atari 400s were available.) Yeah-
|
||
they're a piece of junk, but they're a great piece of junk to have
|
||
started out with. (Even though they're slow, have no memory, and use
|
||
the 6502 chip...) (Yes, Turtle, I know about your Atari wonderuser with
|
||
a meg of RAM and all... but, when I was fourteen, I didn't know
|
||
diddly about bank switching.)
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: D/Ls
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 10:51:15
|
||
Message Number 1398
|
||
|
||
Two questions fer ya, Turtle:
|
||
1. Where's the "overly updated" version of the local BBS's?
|
||
2. Whenever I try D/Ling anything, it immediately tells me
|
||
"Success" -- and quits D/Ling. Have you decided to ARC, ZIP, HACK,
|
||
LZH, LIB, AZT, NIV, QRS, TUV, ABC, and WOP your files down to one
|
||
byte?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: The Game
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 12:23:43
|
||
Message Number 1399
|
||
|
||
There is a game that /looks/ similar to Hard Drivin' called "'Vette",
|
||
although I don't think it's as good as the arcade game is. 'Vette has
|
||
better graphics in some ways (lower resolution, but a lot more in the
|
||
background) and does a credible job of solid modeling, but Hard Drivin'
|
||
is so far the first driving game that is really a "car simulator" in
|
||
the same way flight simulators model planes (and I'm talking about
|
||
military simulators, not just SubLOGIC's microcomputer ones). Atari
|
||
does make some of the most interesting arcade games around.
|
||
In a fascinating but useless bit of trivia, Atari Home Computers and
|
||
Atari Electronics (the makers of the arcade games) are actually two
|
||
separate companies, not just different divisions of the same company.
|
||
The video games are usually built around odd chips, like the Z8000 or
|
||
the 16016, and have nothing in common whatsoever with any computer
|
||
being produced by Atari. This is also why Atari Electronics' games are
|
||
made by other companies for microcomputers instead of being produced
|
||
by Atari Computers; in fact, Atari Computers has trouble licensing
|
||
Atari Electronics games for use with their systems -- most of the games
|
||
that are made by Atari in the arcades are ported to the Atari ST by
|
||
Mindscape or Electronic Arts, because Atari Electronics doesn't trust
|
||
Atari Computers to do good versions....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: ATARI's and You
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 13:06:58
|
||
Message Number 1400
|
||
|
||
>Yes, Turtle, I know about your Atari wonderuser with a meg of RAM
|
||
>and all...
|
||
|
||
The old Atari 8-bits were not bad computers; they were half of a good
|
||
computer that somehow never got finished. There is a subtle distinction
|
||
here. It's not terribly significant to the user if he doesn't know
|
||
anything about electronics--whether you have a bad computer or half a
|
||
good one, you're not going to like it--but becomes very important when
|
||
the person concerned is an electronics wizard who can supply the missing
|
||
half...
|
||
--A sleepy Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: D/Ls
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 13:10:21
|
||
Message Number 1401
|
||
|
||
Two answers for ya, Chip:
|
||
1. The BBS list is in the Information section of the Show neat stuff
|
||
menu.
|
||
2. Well, it sounds like your downloading woes are on your end; I've
|
||
seen people successfully download from here with no problem.
|
||
My guess is you have something set incorrectly on your term
|
||
program. (Remember PBBS only knows XModem Checksum; if you
|
||
try to do XModem CRC it ain't gonna work...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: D/Ls
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 18:40:13
|
||
Message Number 1402
|
||
|
||
I tried downloading and it kept saying TRANSFER COMPLETE....Itried
|
||
all THREEX-Modems Ihave, none worked, and all did the same, it opened
|
||
the file on my disk for 1/2 second, then said TRANSFER COMPLETE without
|
||
sending a single block....STranger, is last time Idownloaded a few month
|
||
s ago, everything went fine!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Me..
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 20:34:52
|
||
Message Number 1404
|
||
|
||
Ohh, the gold fish is fine. Say, how's Athena Axelbreaker doing?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: <///>
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 20:35:33
|
||
Message Number 1405
|
||
|
||
I've seen that story board in Courts of Chaos. I can say one thing:
|
||
Order in the court!
|
||
Order in the court!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: FurryParty
|
||
Date & Time: 01/16/90 20:40:30
|
||
Message Number 1406
|
||
|
||
Bart Fox, up north, says Juan Alfonso, from the south, will not make
|
||
it to NoJuanCon '90.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: ANYONE!!!!
|
||
Subject: HELP!!!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 14:43:14
|
||
Message Number 1407
|
||
|
||
I'm having some problems with my 'puter and need some tech advice.
|
||
First- yes I have an IBM clone (8088) running MSDOS version 3.21. I
|
||
know you'll all say, "Go buy a new computer!" but I can't afford it so..
|
||
here's what it is doing: The only way I can access files on drive C is
|
||
to insert my backup DOS diskette in drive A when I boot up...plus every
|
||
time I try to access a file I get the following msg: "Seek error Drive
|
||
C/ Abort, Retry, Ignore?" Plus, everytime I try to access any files
|
||
thru Q-Dos it denies their existance. In addition, I do not have back-
|
||
ups of my files due to my recent viral infection (my backups were also
|
||
infected and I just havent gotten around to replacing them). I'd rather
|
||
not lose all my files and many of them are copy-protected and I no
|
||
longer have the original software. Any suggestions?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CYBERPUNK
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: my bbs
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 18:05:20
|
||
Message Number 1408
|
||
|
||
guess what all, you might be tired about my bbs being advertised all the
|
||
time but i finnaly got it up and runnig on a regestered copy!!
|
||
well, call it if you want!!
|
||
H Y P E R C O M P !!!
|
||
813-371-0888
|
||
300/1200
|
||
Cy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: D/Ls
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 18:33:52
|
||
Message Number 1409
|
||
|
||
Hmm. I just revamped all the download files; try again and see if it
|
||
works now. I think I figured out what the problem is and it /should/
|
||
be corrected now...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: HELP!!!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 18:36:31
|
||
Message Number 1410
|
||
|
||
Sounds like your hard drive itself has a problem...like it's formatted
|
||
badly, or the sector ID's (written during a low-level format) no longer
|
||
match the sectors they're associated with (rewritten every time you do
|
||
a write)...probably the best thing to do is get everything off the HD
|
||
and do a low-level format. There is a formatting program floating around
|
||
for Mush-DOS which will reformat a hard drivbe without erasing the files
|
||
on it, but I don't know where you might be able to find a copy. I also
|
||
can't be more helpful without a more specific idea of the problem.
|
||
--An ever-helpful Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CYBERPUNK
|
||
Subject: my bbs
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 18:39:16
|
||
Message Number 1411
|
||
|
||
I tried calling a few times; the phone rang forever. (I tried once
|
||
at about 3 AM, so I /assume/ you weren't up using the computer...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Spiffy-Keen!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 20:36:13
|
||
Message Number 1412
|
||
|
||
Well all, I amy, or may not be showing to the Furry party on Saturday.
|
||
I have to see how /other/ engagements turn out, even if those /do/ turn
|
||
out, I /may/ still be able to show sometime late Saturday or early
|
||
Sunday....we'll have to see how things go...if anyone can do me a favor
|
||
and ge ahold of an 8mm video tape, I'd be very happy, since mine seem
|
||
to be all filled up at the moment......Please tell me if you do, so I
|
||
won't go out and buy one! Other News--The people at Aprotek say I shoul
|
||
get my 2400 soon...Ihave no idea how accurate this is, or even if it is
|
||
true, anyways, that's all Ihave to go on, so, everyone who hasen't been
|
||
able to call, get ready to call my board sometime in the near future!
|
||
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
|
||
HHmmm, what else is there? AAHHHH! Dragonfire 1.1i is coming soon!
|
||
Is sports something that we all will love -- Absolutely no revisions
|
||
that will effect my board in the slightest! WOW! Nevertheless, I will
|
||
be running it soon, it may have some hidden features Ididn't notice whil
|
||
on Dragon's board......ANyways, that's all from the funny farm! CHIP!
|
||
You said you never called my board! Inoticed you were in my user log
|
||
before Uwere deleted....what happened?
|
||
|
||
If Ido go to the Furry Party, there is good news! I will be sporting
|
||
my new "Sleeman" shirt as Iam now calling it.....I hope everyone will
|
||
greatly enjoy it....
|
||
|
||
SOMEONE REMIND BART TO BRING MY MSTF APPLICATION!
|
||
|
||
Thankyou...
|
||
|
||
-Ken Obermiester
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Spiffy-Keen!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/17/90 22:02:03
|
||
Message Number 1413
|
||
|
||
O.K. Kenny, this has gone far enough. I'm tempted to go buy a Remote
|
||
Control t-shirt (o.k., so I'm not tempted, I need to save my money) and
|
||
name it my "Robinson" t-shirt. Just because I wore that shirt to two
|
||
BBS meetings in a row you decide to brand me with it. Well, you ALWAYS
|
||
wear your Remote Control t-shirt.
|
||
But let's not turn this into a Windrider/Blacksword fight.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Me..
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 01:54:45
|
||
Message Number 1417
|
||
|
||
Athena? Not sure... you'll have to ask Turtle.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: <///>
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 01:55:28
|
||
Message Number 1418
|
||
|
||
>Order in the court!
|
||
|
||
Trust me. There is none. While weirdness seems to follow Turtle
|
||
around, and entropy seems to follow Spellwind around (or, at least
|
||
four of his personalities...), dry humor seems to follow a small
|
||
brown-and-white mongrel dog named "Joe," who was last seen in Griffin,
|
||
Georgia.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: FurryParty
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 01:58:19
|
||
Message Number 1419
|
||
|
||
Yes, but will East meet West there?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP UNICORN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Spiffy-Keen!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 02:00:33
|
||
Message Number 1420
|
||
|
||
Dear Ken,
|
||
Actually, you're right -- I was a member of your board. However,
|
||
neither of my modems can access yours. Whahappened? Simple -- you
|
||
gave me membership when we were both at RufusCon '89 -- and I never
|
||
could call again.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: No Problem!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 14:58:33
|
||
Message Number 1421
|
||
|
||
Hi again...sorry I hadn't acknowledged your reply...been busy lately...
|
||
lots of scuba diving...well, talk to you later...
|
||
-The Lady In Black
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Furry Party
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 20:04:06
|
||
Message Number 1424
|
||
|
||
So, anyone want me to pop in at the video store and get anything. We
|
||
do have Heavy Metal, Rock 'n Rule, the CalArts tape (6 hours worht), and
|
||
something I forgot, so we won't have a lack of movies to view. Any
|
||
requests? And I will be bringing the box of Animal Crackers/cookies,
|
||
but the more the merrier.
|
||
Till Saturday (two days, one test, one quiz away).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CHIP UNICORN
|
||
Subject: The modems..
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 22:30:33
|
||
Message Number 1425
|
||
|
||
My modem's beep is like a 1/274838th of a Mhz off, and if your modem is
|
||
/very/ particular about things, it won't connect...Fortunately, Ijuts
|
||
called Aprotek today, and I'm getting a new 2400 in the mail about
|
||
Friday....and it'll work fine....if you have a great desire to call, you
|
||
will need to switch your 1200 to 300 baud, and then it will connect...
|
||
Watts had to do that for awhile until he got another modem, but the
|
||
problem should be cleared up very soon....
|
||
|
||
Bye All!
|
||
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Furry Party
|
||
Date & Time: 01/18/90 22:33:04
|
||
Message Number 1426
|
||
|
||
AHEM! Announcing! Is it okay if like 300 of my friends come along!?
|
||
Even those who *I* don'T know have heard about it at my school wanna'
|
||
come...I need to screen them to see if they are "NoJuanCon" material...
|
||
Anyways, Beatle (Derek Minor) may be showing, in which case ::TA DA!::
|
||
we will be having TWO video cameras! Neet-o! And Turtle, can we blow
|
||
up on of your dead VT-52's for the camera? Use some magnesium bombs and
|
||
stuff outside....that'd be neet!
|
||
|
||
I will be bringing STAR TREK IV if people remind me...also the famous
|
||
VPA tape, and a tape of the last CON (RufusCON)....anyways, when
|
||
will we have a CONwhen I'm a guest of honor???
|
||
|
||
Now...bad news, this may /not/ materialize, because I /may/ be doing
|
||
something with Jenn, and she doesn't like the Idea of going to a
|
||
"Furry Party", and sorry, but she takes priority over you all, but
|
||
that's just a /maybe/ because she...well, it's a long story, never
|
||
mind....anyways, is it okay if Scott &Dan & Derek & Derek & WIndrider &
|
||
some other people come? They all want to...Trixie may even show if it
|
||
is okay?
|
||
|
||
C-'Ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
||
|
||
Sl8rz DoOdS!!! hehehehh ];>
|
||
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
|
||
-Ken Obermiester
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Furry Party
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 11:50:28
|
||
Message Number 1427
|
||
|
||
This isn't a pseudo-convention (as Turtle keeps pointing out to me), and
|
||
despite Rufus' best efforts, it is *not* called "NoJuanCon" anywhere
|
||
except his fevered imagination.
|
||
As long as these people have /some/ idea of what they're geting into,
|
||
I wouldn't have any problems with them coming, although I'm not the
|
||
host. It should be pointed out that this is not likely to be your
|
||
typical after-school party, so if people are planning to come over for
|
||
the main reason of getting drunk and acting like idiots they won't be
|
||
all that welcome--and they probably won't enjoy themselves. If someone
|
||
doesn't have even a mild interest in animation, anthropomorphic comics
|
||
or sf, he or she won't like the party, and since everyone has to drive
|
||
some distance to get to Turtle's, it's not like a con party where the
|
||
most you've "wasted" is a three-minute elevator ride. Someone who would
|
||
rather be pulled over a field of broken razor blades than pay money to
|
||
see "The Secret of NIMH" would hate it. Someone who thinks all comics
|
||
are for kids--or never looks at comics that aren't Marvel or DC--would
|
||
hate it. Someone who is baffled by the Double-Edge Tavern and Ace of
|
||
Spades subs on Courts of Chaos--or still pictures Murr & Turtle as
|
||
refugees from old Mickey Mouse cartoons--would hate it.
|
||
Also, be aware there /is/ likely to be alcohol and a lot of stuff
|
||
the prudish would consider pornographic. For a lot of the people you
|
||
mentioned, "prudish" = "parents." These are just a few things to
|
||
consider. Derek Miner would probably enjoy it, but the most interest
|
||
I've seen in fantasy/sf from Windrider is the fact that he likes D&D.
|
||
Like I said, anyone who wants to come to a furry party should know what
|
||
they're getting into; anyone who isn't really interested but just "has
|
||
nothing better to do" might be better off staying home vegetating to
|
||
MTV.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: ack!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 16:31:52
|
||
Message Number 1429
|
||
|
||
Just yell at me folks....well, fortunately, noone else has requested
|
||
to come, so, this may be good....HEY, I was just going to bring ONE
|
||
person.../most/ of the peopel Iwas speaking of were the dweebs who call
|
||
Courts Of Chaos and are planning to show.....On is only 12....Like I
|
||
said, I don't think Turtle should have said "Everyone Is Invited"
|
||
|
||
HHmmm, well, doees anyone know if Ican get some sort of ride home?
|
||
(That's if I'm going to be able to show at all...) It'd allow me to
|
||
stay later....HHmm, I'll be bringing my hitchhiker book as well, so,
|
||
everyone can oohhh &aaahhh over that! hehehehe....
|
||
|
||
bye...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Sure...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 16:47:01
|
||
Message Number 1430
|
||
|
||
And you all should have put that in your advertisements! Anyways,
|
||
I didn't tell Windrider where Turtle lives, so, he probably won't be
|
||
showing.....ANd I tried to talk a friend of mine from school to show,
|
||
but they aren't that stupid! :) Anyways, see 'ya all at the CON
|
||
tomorrow......Igotta'get back to Rescue Rangers now! :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: BTW-Crystal
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 16:49:29
|
||
Message Number 1431
|
||
|
||
Thanks alot for contradicting everything you said while chatting @
|
||
me last night, but then again, you were half-way asleep....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Furry Party
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 17:00:42
|
||
Message Number 1432
|
||
|
||
O.K., so I have a fondness of naming things. And Juan rhymes with con,
|
||
so I couldn't resist.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: problems
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 17:11:58
|
||
Message Number 1433
|
||
|
||
I think you're probably right about my needing to run a low level format
|
||
- if you should hear about a program that will allow me to scrape my HD
|
||
clean w/o dumping my files I'd appreciate a msg.. I ran a diagnostic
|
||
last nite and got the following error msgs:
|
||
DISK ERROR READING FAT 1
|
||
DISK ERROR READING FAT 2
|
||
SEEK ERROR READING DRIVE C
|
||
PROCESSING CANNOT CONTINUE
|
||
FILE ALLOCATION TABLE BAD DRIVE C
|
||
ERROR READING ROOT
|
||
Nice eh? I just wish I knew whatinthehell caused this.
|
||
I wonder what a 9mm steel-jacketed slug would do to this thing? Hmmmm.
|
||
I'm going to try and drop by Perkins tomorrow to meet a couple of you
|
||
guys...if I dont make it have a good time.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: ack!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 23:11:22
|
||
Message Number 1435
|
||
|
||
I am sorry to yell like that. But you must admit that a room full
|
||
if high school people could scare anyone. But will see what happends.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: BTW-Crystal
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 23:13:29
|
||
Message Number 1436
|
||
|
||
Yes I was 1/2 a sleep. And the more I thought about it, the less
|
||
I liked it and the more up set I got. Any way like I said will see
|
||
what happends.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: problems
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 23:21:20
|
||
Message Number 1437
|
||
|
||
Yngling, I don't think you need to use firearms on your HD. Just get
|
||
me 50 yds. of nylon rope. We tie it around the HD, tie the other end
|
||
to a car, and drag it down 301 for a few miles. That'll teach it a
|
||
lesson!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: ack!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 23:22:52
|
||
Message Number 1438
|
||
|
||
I don't think it's the room full of high school kids, it's the room
|
||
full of high school kids who are weenies. I'm in high school and I
|
||
don't think I'm a weenie. I've been called weird, rude, stoopid,
|
||
bizarre, and in need of help, but not a weenie. Come to think of it,
|
||
a room full of your average high school student is terrifying!!
|
||
Anyways, I'm tired, and going to bed soon, after I figure where to hang
|
||
this poster of a hydrogen bomb at.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: problems
|
||
Date & Time: 01/19/90 23:38:43
|
||
Message Number 1439
|
||
|
||
You may have a plan there Rufus but I need more details before I can
|
||
give it serious consideration...what gauge of rope? What type of car?
|
||
Exactly how many miles? Remember: we are dealing with sensitive
|
||
equipment here and a single miscalculation could have dire consequences.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
Subject: No Problem!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 02:48:44
|
||
Message Number 1442
|
||
|
||
>been busy lately...lots of scuba diving...
|
||
|
||
You dive? Where? You know, if you have any interest at all in ocean-
|
||
ography, marine biology, or marine ecology, I bet Lorelei would
|
||
/love/ to talk with you. She's in the Keys right now, doing work for the
|
||
Dolphin Research Center in Key West.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Furry Party
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 02:50:43
|
||
Message Number 1443
|
||
|
||
>...can we blow up one of the dead VT-52's? Use some magnesium bombs
|
||
>or something?
|
||
|
||
Well, except for the fact that (a) I don't have any powdered magnesium;
|
||
(b) I don't have any detonators, and (c) a cartridge bomb wouldn't
|
||
really be that impressive anyway (they are incindiary, not shattering,
|
||
bombs, and don't generate much of a shockwave), well, no. If you
|
||
really wanted to blow up a VT-52, a magnesium bomb wouldn't cut it.
|
||
You'd need something like a dynamite or plastique device for that...
|
||
magnesium cartridge bombs are useful primarily as ignitors for
|
||
much larger devices. On the other hand, if you want to use a gasoline
|
||
explosion to blow a refrigerator door into low earth orbit, well,
|
||
magnesium is JUST the thing you're looking for...
|
||
--An explosive Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: problems
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 02:56:01
|
||
Message Number 1444
|
||
|
||
Yes, from the looks of things I'd say you absolutely need to run a low-
|
||
level format, and badly. I've heard exactly once of a program that will
|
||
do it without losing your files, but in your case I doubt it would work
|
||
because the disk has to be readable in the first place to salvage
|
||
everything on it. It sounds like you may actually have a media fault
|
||
(a physically damaged area on the surface of the disk). The best I
|
||
can advise is to copy off all the files you can and just format the
|
||
sucker and take your losses, although if you /do/ have a media fault
|
||
don't be surprised if you find you can't even format it. (If that is
|
||
the case, the hard disk is a loss.)
|
||
The most obvious thing that will cause that sort of problem, especially
|
||
if it happened all of a sudden, is a head crash. Other than that, I
|
||
don't really know where the problem could have come from...
|
||
--A floppy Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: ack!
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 11:38:32
|
||
Message Number 1445
|
||
|
||
Don't worry...as far as Iknow, only Me, Rufus, and Derek are the only
|
||
HIgh-School people showing......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: Cake...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 11:39:18
|
||
Message Number 1446
|
||
|
||
Hey, I didn'T have any of your "yummy" vcake last time at RufusCON...
|
||
Are you gonna'make more this time? :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: HHmmm....
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 11:41:40
|
||
Message Number 1447
|
||
|
||
I could always being my MAD! recipe for homemade Plastique out of
|
||
common household products!
|
||
|
||
:)
|
||
|
||
-- A MAD! Ken Ober
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: YNGLING
|
||
Subject: problems
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 15:13:48
|
||
Message Number 1448
|
||
|
||
Well, a '77 Nova or a '79 Chevy Van would probaly work. I don't think
|
||
the rope is that important, just as long as it holds. Here's exactly
|
||
what ya do. Tie the hard drive up, tie the other end to the car.
|
||
get the car up to 50 mph then toss the hard drive out the window, so it
|
||
hits the pavement at a high speed. How long you drive depends on the
|
||
size of the HD. You just use MEGS*.075
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: abortions...
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 17:52:55
|
||
Message Number 1449
|
||
|
||
------- Just as a disclaimer, the opinion expressed is not mine,
|
||
but my girlfriends ----
|
||
|
||
|
||
god calls it murder.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Robin Hood
|
||
Date & Time: 01/20/90 18:49:41
|
||
Message Number 1450
|
||
|
||
Disney's "Robin Hood" has been on video for a long time. I think it
|
||
was a limited release at first, but if you check some Wal-Marts, there
|
||
is a whole set of re-released Disney tapes at $25. Some titles in-
|
||
clude: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Alice in Wonderland, and most likely
|
||
Robin Hood...
|
||
===========
|
||
|