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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: ChristmasCon
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:36:19
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Message Number 902
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Running over an IBM with a car will be sure to bring Turtle to the
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CyberCon.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: SAURON
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Subject: catchy slogans
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:38:04
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Message Number 903
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Hell, I think we should be allowed to abort them up 'till about six
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or seven years after birth. They're not much good before them.
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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: LISP!
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:41:15
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Message Number 904
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You know, looking at that thpew reminds me of a lithp program
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(which, of course, is now a language which I CANNOT look at without
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belching (or, at least, going mildly inthane (which, of course, I am
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now))) but I believe "Buy American" (made, of courthe, in Korea (which
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ith where my ex-roommate is (and where he can thtay (yeth, I know
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that'th not nithe))))) is a travethty to the world market.
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The international Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Anything Goes
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:48:53
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Message Number 905
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%Message Deleted on Account of Good Taste
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: Executive 10/78
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:50:13
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Message Number 906
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Yes, but I might be stealing back my VT-100 just for the sake of
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calling BBS's with it.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: SPELLWIND
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Subject: sigh...
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:51:30
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Message Number 907
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Good! Now I can give you copies of Novus Magnificot, Michael W Smith
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Project I and II, Simon and Garfunkel, and my Jeff Johnson CD's.
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Of course, if you want to get over your love-strickeness, I'll
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give you a copy of APP's Eve.
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: CORWYN OF AMBER
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Subject: Beavers
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:53:44
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Message Number 908
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By the way, Corwyn, you forgot to match your parentheses.
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Sprinkle these at the end of your message:]}).
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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: auctions
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:54:56
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Message Number 909
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Oh, Rufus; you KNOW you enjoyed stripping your van to lug a one-ton
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computer. I mean, it really was a unique experience -- when was the
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LAST time you lugged a mainframe all through Sarasota?
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By the way, can we borrow your van once more? I just bought a
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second-hand Cray.
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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: Present!
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:59:00
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Message Number 910
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Three religious experiences? Wow. I'm a rational mystic, myself --
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I keep having mystical experiences, but I don't believe one of them.
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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: in Ham Center..
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 11:00:05
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Message Number 911
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>I just hope it doesn't end up migrating over here like the last one
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>did.
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Sure. Right. We're really supposed to believe that?
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From: CHIP P. UNICORN
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Mainframe II
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 11:03:56
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Message Number 912
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Dear Turtle,
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I wanna make an MS-DOS emulator for the mainframe!
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Chip P. Unicorn
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From: DONTHEN
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Executive 10/78
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 12:31:06
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Message Number 914
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You already have a VT-100 emulator. What do you need another one for?
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From: RUFUS
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: auctions
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:45:10
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Message Number 915
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Yea..sure....go rot in a bog!
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From: TURTLE
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To: CORWYN OF AMBER
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Subject: love! & stuff
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:48:53
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Message Number 916
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How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
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This is one of the greater mysteries of Life. The answer, if you're
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interested, can be found engraved on a bronze tablet from the ancient
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Phoenician empire, now located at the bottom of the Marianas Trench,
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where it was cast to prevent it from falling into the hands of the
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barbarian invaders during the Great Tootsie Roll Collapse of about 1070
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AD. By all means, feel free to go look. I, of course, know what it is,
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but I'm not going to tell you.
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--A guru Turtle
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Oh yeah--the answer on the tablet is, for some reason, in octal, not
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decimal.
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Anything Goes
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:55:18
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Message Number 917
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[%Message from SYSTEM]
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Your last program has been judged UNTASTEFUL by the TASTE monitor and
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automatically deleted.
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From: TURTLE
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Mainframe II
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:57:15
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Message Number 918
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>I wanna make an MS-DOS emulator for the mainframe!
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You can be replaced. Now, tell me you're joking before I make you eat
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this here VT-100 keyboard...
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From: KEN OBER
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To: ALL
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Subject: hi!
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 19:41:44
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Message Number 919
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Gee, have Iposted this here yet, well, just in case, I'm paunching a
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media blitz, so watch out! AARRRGGG! RUF!
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OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBB
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S
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De'ja' Vu? +
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---------- O
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P
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Get A Grip Dude! U
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S
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Call: +
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U REMOTE CONTROL! B
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B
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The BBS So Cool That S
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+
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You Gotta' Wear Shades! O
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P
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(813) 378-2218 U
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S
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Sarasota, Florida +
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U 300/1200 Baud B
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B
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ULTIMATE 8-BIT SUPPORT! S
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+
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BS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS
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From: KEN OBER
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To: ALL
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Subject: gee,
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 19:44:20
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Message Number 920
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The BBSreally butchered my message! And DONTHENand TURTLE complain
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that THEYcan'T dump THEIRbeffers on MY BBS....ARRRGGGG!
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-- An Annoyed Ken Ober <=- Generic Turtle Line
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From: ROCKY
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: well...
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 21:42:42
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Message Number 922
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yay. hoora. ba. humbug.
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From: ROCKY
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Hail!
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 21:55:49
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Message Number 923
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Well, considering that you are STILL a representative of your kind,
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I feel that I should at least give you this, in your home-language,
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EVEN:
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"Winnie, Yip Wiiiine, winnnie yip pffffft winnie"
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(Long live the Unicorn!)
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From: ROCKY
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: GameCon
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:01:05
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Message Number 924
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Well, I consider Pente a very challenging game. You are right, about
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Go-Moku being a more "Well-rounded" game, but there is a LOT of strategy
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involved. as for the first person having a definite advantage, BAH! You
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just have to know where to place your stone on your first move as the
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second to go. As you recall, the challenger gets the middle crosshair,
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automatically, and the next turn can be a move anywhere on the grid.
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Like I said, this can be to the second players advantage, depending on
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the placement of your stone.
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From: ROCKY
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: glue
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:05:19
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Message Number 925
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Yeah, but unlike unicorns, they can't have there hooves made into glue,
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and there horn carved into wonderful figurines. So, what's the use of
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waiting that long?
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Me? Paranoid?
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:27:11
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Message Number 926
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I'm happy, I'm Happy!
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(pills, you say? Pills? what /kind/ of pills)
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- Corwyn (the accidental junkie)
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===========
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Beavers
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:31:45
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Message Number 927
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It's a standard practice.. throw a few extra in.. just for good measure.
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... )}))}}]])}])]])}} and so on.. No, actually I finally got my editor,
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/not/ edwin.. to match parentheses.. thank god. It was acutally easier
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than trying to re-assign all of edwin's commands to sensible key-combos.
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Anyway.. we should be seeing a much saner Corwyn these days.. well
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relatively saner anyway.
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- Corwyn
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===========
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Cray
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:35:31
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Message Number 928
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Hide your liquid nitrogen folks...
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- Corwyn
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===========
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: love! & stuff
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:37:42
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Message Number 929
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I'll be sure to check it out, next time I'm in the neighborhood, hmm..
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how many digits do turtles have......?
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- Corwyn (Counting his own fingers.)
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===========
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Antisocial Modm
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:44:16
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Message Number 930
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From what you explained before.. my modem doesn't like returning 1200,
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(or 2400) baud carrier. BTW should I set my modem for Bell or CCITT
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V.22 compatibility.. Doesn't affect /this/ problem tho' I've tried it
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both ways. It started when happening only when I called here.. now every
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board I call, half the time I hear the initial beep (300 baud carrier)
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then nothing... AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Help.
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From: DONTHEN
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: hi!
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 23:10:19
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Message Number 931
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Appears your terminal program and PBBS didn't get along all that well.
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/I've/ uploaded messages to Alter Reality, so it is possible, but it
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looks like the right edge got lost in translation.
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Incidentally, I have seen one or two extremely cool QBBS systems. It's
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not all that difficult (it has all the flexibility of Dragonfire coupled
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with, well, not having all the kludges of Dragonfire!), it's just that
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several sysops locally went out of their way to make it look boring.
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Incidentally, the Rendezvous (the prime example of What Not To Do With A
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QuickBBS) is down; Mike Talbert sold the entire set-up to somebody else,
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apparently without telling anyone ahead of time -- thus screwing up a
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lot of echos that were being routed through him. Ok, so you were right,
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he /was/ a bit of an asshole. (Sorry if there are any Rendezvous fans
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out there, but hey, cutting off the Hotline's echo feeds without any
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warning was dickish, no two ways about it.). Corwyn's board might be a
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good example of what to do with a QBBS system, although I haven't called
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it yet; Thoughts & Images in California is an incredible example of what
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you can do with QBBS if you put your mind to it. (Of course, T&I is
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switching to TBBS as soon as he gets the money, because QBBS is a bear
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to maintain and he wants to be able to go multiline. He will also be
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the /first/ multiline TBBS in the country to be completely free, so all
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those people who thought John Zimmermann was nuts for charging access to
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his multiline board should be aware he had lots of company. In fact,
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nobody I've talked to, including sysops on GEnie, is aware of /any/
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multiline board that doesn't have at least a one-time access fee--at
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least none that stayed up for very long. Most of them didn't sell their
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computer and go underground like Zimmermann did, but that's another
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kettle of donuts entirely... :) )
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From: DONTHEN
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To: CORWYN OF AMBER
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Subject: Antisocial Modm
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Date & Time: 12/12/89 23:18:47
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Message Number 932
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Standard protocols are V.22 for 2400 bps and Bell ...? 212 for 1200.
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V.22 for 1200 is used occasionally, but not in this country. Some
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modems are simply picky about different signals; the modem Turtle is
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using for this board is usually extremely nice about connecting with
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anything remotely resembling a carrier (I know, it was my modem and
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still is when I'm in a really bad mood because the modem I'm using is
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broken, even though Turtle doesn't see it that way), but it's possible
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yours just isn't...
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===========
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From: TURTLE
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To: KEN OBER
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Subject: gee,
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 04:18:57
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Message Number 933
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All you need to do is delay briefly between lines (rather than between
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characters, as on certain systems...) If your terminal program is
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capable of it, tell it to look for a ":" prompt before sending each
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line...
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--A generic Turtle
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===========
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From: TURTLE
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To: CORWYN OF AMBER
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Subject: love! & stuff
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 04:22:18
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Message Number 934
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>How many digits do turtles have?
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Eight! Three fingers and an opposing thumb on each hand. Although this
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particular Turtle has twenty-five; his lucky number is
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3271225497265020071970960
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(Twenty-five...the number of digits in his lucky number...get it?)
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--An unlucky Turtle
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(It doesn't come up very often, but when it does, I have the most
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AMAZING luck!)
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===========
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: ROCKY
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Subject: well...
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 07:06:17
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Message Number 935
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...what's wrong with you?
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===========
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: ALL!!
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Subject: santa
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 07:07:07
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Message Number 936
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MERRY
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X X M M M AAAAA SSSSS
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X X M MMM M A A S
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X X MM MM AAAAA SSSSS
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X ------ M M A A S
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X X M M A A SSSSS
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X X
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X X oops, the M is upside
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down!!! oh well
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*Cy*
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: love! & stuff
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 13:38:14
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Message Number 937
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I didn't think turtles had luck..... just patience...
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You learn something every day.
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- Corwyn (Going back over all his Turtle lore)
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===========
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From: CORWYN OF AMBER
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To: ALL
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Subject: Those wrd keybs
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 13:43:19
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Message Number 938
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Is anybody out there using a Dvorak keyboard. I've got a couple of
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keyboard re-mappers.. and two of them have Dvorak layouts..
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I (masochist that I am) decided to try it out.. I made myself type
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"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." ect.. and even though
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I've been /really/ touch typing for about three years on Qwerty keyboard
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-'s I was surprised at how easy a lot of the typing was. It just seemed
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a lot more logical to use. The Qwert layout was actually designed to
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slow typists up, and prevent typewriters from jamming... but this layout
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seems /so/ superior I'm surprised that it's efficiency hasn't won out
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over qwerty's popularity. Do many professional secrataries use the
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layaout? Hmm I wonder... Of courst I type this not on my old layout not
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Dvorak.. I don't learn that quickly...
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(as he rambles on, and on, and on, and on, smack! <- stop that)
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- Corwyn
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===========
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From: QTIP
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Mainframe II
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Date & Time: 12/13/89 16:10:49
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Message Number 939
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Hey, Turtle, the backspace is really a backspace AFTER alt-1 and
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ctrl-H combination.. You know what that does but I only know that it
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works!! Got a magazine address for you that's filled with surplus
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electronic everything. Lots of computer sections and systems that
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the government and companys use then discard for little or nothing.
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the name of the place is:
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Herbach & Rademan Company
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401 E. Erie Ave
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Phildelphia, Pa. 19134
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Phone 215-426-1708
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Fax 215-425-8870
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They're big on motors, transformers, robotic miscellaneous, computer
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stuff of all sorts. Are you going to the lunchen at El Cressent ---
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or whatever it's called? If you are I'll try to bring a catelogue
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with me. I also have a less elaborate version of that program
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we tried to upload the other day. It's shareware and certain files are
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requested to be included but knowing what the parameters are now
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we can try it again. I'll have to get ready first though.
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Taking a few days off so I'll be playing on this thing quite a bit.
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Hope to converse with you more later. Had fun the other night. Hop Hop
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From: QTIP
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: Mystic Exper..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/13/89 16:26:35
|
||
Message Number 940
|
||
|
||
Well, if you keep having these experiences,...does it ring a bell....
|
||
like "Behold, I stand at the door and knock........" Don't get me
|
||
wrong, I'm not thumping and there is no pushing a particular opinion
|
||
'cause I had my opinions for many years and am not complaining about
|
||
what others voice. Tis a free and luckily informative land in which we
|
||
live. ......No animasity. We'll just keep hippity hoppin along.
|
||
have a nice day and a very MERRY CHRISTMAS Hop Hop
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CYBERPUNK
|
||
Subject: Nuttin' Much
|
||
Date & Time: 12/13/89 18:37:46
|
||
Message Number 941
|
||
|
||
HA! I dialate my pupils in your general direction, you nearsighted
|
||
aardvark! Just thought it needed to be said. Never mind...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Mainframes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/13/89 19:46:07
|
||
Message Number 942
|
||
|
||
Relax Chip, and all of you others, that thought I was going to kill
|
||
Turtle when I got home. I did not harm a hair on his reptilian skin.
|
||
I did what any woman would do in a situation such as mine. I bought
|
||
more shelving. I love my Turtle. The more I think about it, I am glad
|
||
he dosn't collect lint under neath couches.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Thursday
|
||
Date & Time: 12/13/89 22:49:58
|
||
Message Number 944
|
||
|
||
Thursday are really useless. There's never been anything special about
|
||
'em. Rarely does anything exciting happen. Just what purpose do they
|
||
serve? There's nothing good on TV on Thursdays ( or Friday-Wednesday
|
||
either ) except for Mission: Impossible which I watch for no reason.
|
||
Of course, if they keep up with the really far out stuff, then I could
|
||
go back to the usual toe nail clipping collectors club.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 12:12:34
|
||
Message Number 946
|
||
|
||
The fastest typists in the world are on Dvorak keyboards, not the
|
||
standard "QWERTY" type. However, since QWERTY was the first one to
|
||
become widely popular and had several big companies pushing it back
|
||
when typewriters were curiosities rather than accepted business tools,
|
||
it became the standard. The only personal computer I know of that has
|
||
a standard Dvorak layout is the Apple //c, which has a switch to toggle
|
||
between QWERTY and Dvorak modes.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 16:34:05
|
||
Message Number 947
|
||
|
||
What would be nice, is a keyboard which has the keyboard letters in the
|
||
Dvorak layout... or one w/ removeable keycaps - that can be /put/ in a
|
||
Dvorak keyboard layout. Unforutately, my keyboard is neither, so either
|
||
I learn the Dvorak layout /quick/ or give up the idea.
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: sigh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:03:35
|
||
Message Number 949
|
||
|
||
Oh crap!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: animation
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:05:08
|
||
Message Number 950
|
||
|
||
Ooooooohhh.... pirated tapes! heheh....Where did ya get an illegal
|
||
copy of "101 Dalmations"??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX
|
||
Subject: Disney Releases
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:06:18
|
||
Message Number 951
|
||
|
||
"The Fox and the Hound" isn't as popular as some Disney movies,but,
|
||
it might be released.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Wizard
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:11:35
|
||
Message Number 952
|
||
|
||
For those of you who are looking for "Wizard" STOP. It's "Wizards"...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Wizard
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:34:22
|
||
Message Number 953
|
||
|
||
Close enough.. hopefully people aren't that stupid (like I am)
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/14/89 21:24:46
|
||
Message Number 954
|
||
|
||
You could always repaint the letters on your keyboard. I know someone
|
||
who learned the keyboard by putting white out over groups of letters, so
|
||
they were forced to learn where the keys were. I'm just a two finger
|
||
typer.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 13:51:22
|
||
Message Number 957
|
||
|
||
But who wants adhesive or (white out?! <- you're kidding, right?) on
|
||
you keyboard? Not this typist.
|
||
- Corywn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 16:41:01
|
||
Message Number 959
|
||
|
||
Nope, I'm not kidding about the whiteout. Of course it was a C-64
|
||
keyboard, so it couldn't have gotten much worse. :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: And Fish!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 18:01:08
|
||
Message Number 961
|
||
|
||
Well, wanna'meet the author of DragonFire in person? He's coming down
|
||
to Lakeland for a weekend in Feb., 'cause /most/ of the DragonFire
|
||
BBSes run in the Central Florida area....anyways, there is some party
|
||
going on or something, and he has lots of money to waste...ssooo...
|
||
he's comming down....anyways, Ijust thoiught it'd bee neet-o if U, me,
|
||
Turtle, and anyone else who wanted to rag on him could go...it'd be fun!
|
||
Maybe Sauron could go along too! I'm sure he has some jkind words!
|
||
|
||
hehehhhe
|
||
|
||
C-'Ya!
|
||
|
||
-KKKEEENNN OOOBBBEEERRR
|
||
REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: hhmmm...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 18:03:57
|
||
Message Number 962
|
||
|
||
Odd, i was sening it at the slowest speed availible--directly off of
|
||
disk, and that is REAL slow! Ican even buffer a message and send it to
|
||
a DragonFire board that way! ANyways...HO HUM! Maybe Ican slow it down
|
||
even more by reading the file off of the 1541...or Icould pull out this
|
||
tape drive here.... hehehhehe
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: HA!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 18:07:26
|
||
Message Number 963
|
||
|
||
Ican pop the letters off MYkeyboard!! HA! Neet-o, eh? When Iwas in
|
||
typing class, a friend of mine who has a 128D and was also in the same
|
||
class took off all the keys and mixed them up so he'd /HAVE/ to
|
||
memorize the keyboard....worked well for him, he had 58 WPM at the end
|
||
of the year.... (If anyone is wondering, Ihave 52 by the end of the
|
||
year, Ibelieve, but that's on a /standard/ typewritter keyboard, the
|
||
128 layout is /quite/ different from the norm., but i'm getting used to
|
||
it...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 21:10:45
|
||
Message Number 965
|
||
|
||
Eye, Cap'n, t'wood. But me thinks dat it may damage a tirPerhaps
|
||
shooting it would suffice? (Or mayhap dropping a Ohio on it?)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: auctions
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 21:15:16
|
||
Message Number 966
|
||
|
||
Really??????? Where????? \/\/\/
|
||
Oh, by the by, we need to fin an OS for the ohio (I would _Really_ like
|
||
to see what that machine does), any ideas?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: Mainframes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 21:20:39
|
||
Message Number 967
|
||
|
||
At least one of the various housemates has a high level of tolerance,
|
||
B. looks like she wants to kill me when I think of adding a new toy to
|
||
the stack.
|
||
\/-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHAS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Social Concern
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 22:03:02
|
||
Message Number 968
|
||
|
||
Every eighteen minutes a woman is beat up...
|
||
...and she's getting pissed off...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHAS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: picnick
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 22:03:56
|
||
Message Number 969
|
||
|
||
TOMORROW! 11 AM to 2 PM, at Le Croissant, Sarasota (Main St.)...lots
|
||
of giveaways (good stuff!!), and great conversation
|
||
!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 22:58:21
|
||
Message Number 970
|
||
|
||
<-- that's really funny, I was going to ask you: "please tell me it was
|
||
a commodere keyboard, so it was no real loss" God, who /designed/ those
|
||
things? I don't understand how people type on them at all.
|
||
-Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: HA!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 23:02:54
|
||
Message Number 971
|
||
|
||
True blue IBM keyboards have removable keycaps (or did anyway) ---
|
||
but that's about all good you can say about Big Blue.. The keyboards
|
||
also managed to weigh almost eight pounds I beleive. (Must be that lead
|
||
plating to prevent electrolosis.) Hey Turtle.. what kink of keyboards,
|
||
do OnSystems computers come with... is it equally indestructible to the
|
||
motherboard.. (probably be quite a feat).. anyway, looking at the keys
|
||
isn't all bad for the first few days... it's that or look at a chart, if
|
||
you simply /don't/ know where the key is. And it would be those first
|
||
few days I'd have to get through... mayber after Christmas when I won't
|
||
have typed on a QWERTY keyboard in about a month.. should make switching
|
||
easier.
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: CHAS
|
||
Subject: Social Concern
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 23:09:39
|
||
Message Number 972
|
||
|
||
They should take kung-fu and beat them back! No I /don't/ mean harmon-
|
||
ize with them, I mean /hit/ back. Course then you get escalation..
|
||
but nothings perfect.....
|
||
- Corwyn (If you understood that, seek help now!)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Asm..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/15/89 23:12:43
|
||
Message Number 973
|
||
|
||
Whhoooopppeeee!!!! - I got the fossil to talk to me... now I just need
|
||
to figure out how to declare a buffer area to put all the characters I
|
||
recieved from the modem. Any ideas on how 8086 asm would do that? Or
|
||
just what exactly you're doing at all... I'd be more specific, but I
|
||
don't really know what to be more specific about... Maybe trying to
|
||
pick up assembly language in one day, on no sleep isn't such a great
|
||
idea anyway.. it /seemed/ like a good idea at the time... perfectly l
|
||
logical.. of course!
|
||
- Corwyn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: hhmmm...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 02:36:09
|
||
Message Number 974
|
||
|
||
You can upload to the message base at full 1200 baud, as long as you
|
||
pause between lines. (DragonFire won't let you send anything at full
|
||
speed.) What you should do, if your term program is capable of it, is
|
||
either send the file line by line with a pause at the end of each line,
|
||
or send it line by line and have the term program wait for a ":"
|
||
character (since PBBS puts one after every line number) before sending
|
||
each line.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Asm..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 02:40:40
|
||
Message Number 975
|
||
|
||
In assembly (8086 or otherwise) you don't "declare" a buffer, you just
|
||
pick a spot in memory that you know isn't being used for anything and
|
||
put the characters there. The memory address immediately following the
|
||
end of the program is usually a good choice; pick a register, point it
|
||
there, and every time a character comes in put it in the byte addressed
|
||
by the register and increment the register. Is simple, no? To read a
|
||
byte, pull it off the first address in the buffer, move the remaining
|
||
buffer down one byte, and decrement the register. Is trivial, really...
|
||
(he he he)
|
||
--An assembly wizard Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Anything Goes
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:53:14
|
||
Message Number 979
|
||
|
||
[%Message from USER 007MSTF]
|
||
The TASTE monitor can go lick itself. I want my message back.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: Hail!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:54:51
|
||
Message Number 980
|
||
|
||
You misspelled pffft. pffffft, which you wrote, doesn't make sense.
|
||
A linguist unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: GameCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:56:02
|
||
Message Number 981
|
||
|
||
Dear Rocky,
|
||
I'll take you up on that sometime... best four out of seven?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: glue
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:56:52
|
||
Message Number 982
|
||
|
||
What's the use of waiting that long? You mean God doesn't have a
|
||
seven-year money back guarentee, like some car companies? Sheesh...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: QTIP
|
||
Subject: Mystic Exper..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 04:01:18
|
||
Message Number 983
|
||
|
||
Naaah... nothing that simple. Four creatures, that looked kinda like
|
||
men, but each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were
|
||
straight; their feet like polished bronze. Under their wings on their
|
||
four sides they had the hands of a man. Each of the four had the face
|
||
of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on
|
||
the left each had the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.
|
||
|
||
yarg! yarg! yarg!
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 04:07:12
|
||
Message Number 984
|
||
|
||
Well, my fine feathered friend; welcome back! (Lacking the arms to
|
||
give a decent hug, I rub your feathered chest with my muzzle.) Looks
|
||
like you finally got one of your machines to run with one of your
|
||
modems, eh?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: life
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 09:25:52
|
||
Message Number 985
|
||
|
||
Aye! Me Losing Edge is _finally_ running again. Hope I see U in a
|
||
short time, Have a few ideas to run by you off line. You are getting
|
||
damn difficult to reach lately.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PINEAPPLE LEE
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: It's almost lik
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 10:24:36
|
||
Message Number 990
|
||
|
||
It's almost like a drug.....sniffffffffffff.......
|
||
Well, when I get to work it's more important to read my mail than to
|
||
answer the phone...Ring...Ring..Ring... Well anyway "hey"...see ya
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Well...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:20:10
|
||
Message Number 991
|
||
|
||
The pathetic sux-a-lux/2 (PS/2 for short) drive is still having
|
||
problems living with my system...the drive is too slow, the operating
|
||
system is too fast, and well, have you ever heard of premature...well,
|
||
never mind. Anyway, the upshot of all this is that I've had to slow
|
||
down disk access /again/, and as a result message reading is now going
|
||
to be slower than ever (new! improved! slower than ever before! Kind
|
||
of like Micro Channel, you see...) Anyway, if you're waiting for, oh,
|
||
seven or eight minutes to read your messages, well, that's why. Thank
|
||
you, and have a nice day. :)
|
||
--A sssslllloooowwww Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: And Fish!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:36:14
|
||
Message Number 992
|
||
|
||
Well, meeting him could be INTERESTING, for lack of a better word. No,
|
||
seriously, it might be fun. Especially if either PBBS 3.0 or FOX gets
|
||
written before then...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: Those wrd keybs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:38:50
|
||
Message Number 993
|
||
|
||
That's true. The 128 keyboard has a nice feel, but it has, what, three
|
||
keys between the semicolon and the RETURN button! I can deal with one
|
||
in the way, but that arrangement drives me up the wall...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Asm..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:41:10
|
||
Message Number 994
|
||
|
||
> To read a byte, pull it off the first address in the buffer, move the
|
||
> remaining buffer down one byte, and decrement the register.
|
||
|
||
That would screw things all to hell; the buffer is still in the same
|
||
place, but the 2nd byte has become the first, the 3rd the 2nd, etc., and
|
||
you just changed the pointer to point at one byte below the buffer.
|
||
What people with working brain cells do is point something at the start
|
||
of the buffer (i.e., a register), read the first byte, do something with
|
||
it, and then INCREMENT the pointer and keep reading the bytes until you
|
||
get to the end. Doing it by moving the entire buffer would work if you
|
||
kept reading the byte at the buffer's bottom -- it would, in effect, be
|
||
doing the same thing -- but you'd have to know how big the buffer was
|
||
to start with, which isn't always possible, and it'd be a lot slower and
|
||
potentially a great deal more complicated (it'd already add overhead if
|
||
you use LDIR--what if you're using a CPU without block moves?). You
|
||
know all of this already, so where'd you come up with that tripe? Wakey
|
||
wakey, Mr. Toitle.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: hhmmm...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 23:30:20
|
||
Message Number 995
|
||
|
||
Well, my pro-128-term can't do that, but DESTERM may be able to...
|
||
But it isn'T THAT Important to force me to use desterm! hehehhehe
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: life
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 23:47:35
|
||
Message Number 996
|
||
|
||
Awqk! Awqk! Nevermore!
|
||
1. Comgratulations on gettin the Leading Edge running.
|
||
2. Ideas? Love to hear them...
|
||
3. Damn difficult to reach? Well, sorrrrrrry! (Yeah, we need to
|
||
get together sometime, when the two of us are able to talk.)
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Well...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/16/89 23:51:15
|
||
Message Number 997
|
||
|
||
I KNEW there was a reason why I shouldn't log on to a board run by
|
||
a Sysop named Turtle...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Asm..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/17/89 00:29:34
|
||
Message Number 998
|
||
|
||
>...moving the entire buffer would work if you kept reading the byte at
|
||
>the buffer's bottom...
|
||
|
||
Um, ahem, that's what I said...
|
||
|
||
>Read the byte at the first address of the buffer...
|
||
|
||
And OF COURSE you know how big the buffer is. It's the difference
|
||
between the pointer and the first byte in the buffer.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/17/89 19:27:27
|
||
Message Number 1002
|
||
|
||
Amazing, this h-a-r-d d-r-i-v-e is not to l-o-u-d. Wow. It still
|
||
s-q-u-e-e-k-s every now and then.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Intro
|
||
Date & Time: 12/18/89 08:00:39
|
||
Message Number 1003
|
||
|
||
Isn't saying "ugly polyester" like saying "big whale." I know there's
|
||
a word for that, but seeing how it's 8 a.m., I can't think of it. Oh
|
||
well, I'm going back to bed, and this HD isn't screamin' at me.
|
||
Is this man good, or is this man EviL?
|
||
|
||
Ribbit...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Intro
|
||
Date & Time: 12/18/89 16:19:06
|
||
Message Number 1005
|
||
|
||
>Is this man good, or is this man EviL?
|
||
|
||
If you're referring to Mr. Snyde ("Hiya, Mr. Snyde!" -- smiling at the
|
||
plant that's been inching over to hear our conversation.), neither
|
||
applies to him. The government has begun an in-depth commision to
|
||
answer that question; it will only cost our taxpayers $10 million.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: *
|
||
Date & Time: 12/18/89 17:01:13
|
||
Message Number 1006
|
||
|
||
>Is this man good, or is this man EviL?
|
||
|
||
I dunno, Mr. Mikey; I seem to have lost the ability to differentiate.
|
||
I frequently blow up innocent cows with a large cannon, and chase
|
||
them about my living room with an axe. That's why I work for the U.S.
|
||
Government. (Of course, it also helps that I have the IQ of a brain-
|
||
damaged rabbit; that's why the guy I'm tapping keeps getting muting
|
||
failures that screw up his connection. There's two buttons on this
|
||
thing, see, and I keep pushing the wrong one...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/18/89 17:56:52
|
||
Message Number 1007
|
||
|
||
So, anyone catch the Simpson special last night. I have to give it a
|
||
thumbs up. I heard it will be aired again on the 23rd. And the
|
||
"Married...with Children" special was also good.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: Aye!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/18/89 23:01:19
|
||
Message Number 1008
|
||
|
||
My God! You can BBS once again! Not to say that I have ever had the
|
||
pleasure of conversing with you over such things before...
|
||
|
||
Anyway, congratulations on getting your system(s?) up, and let's get
|
||
together and play some p..l sometime (sneaky, ain't I?)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 01:15:17
|
||
Message Number 1009
|
||
|
||
Yep, I'd have to agree...got both of 'em on videotape, in fact.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MIKI
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Dumb reptiles
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:38:44
|
||
Message Number 1010
|
||
|
||
since i'm new around here i have no complaints. what kind, sort, rank o
|
||
f social issues are being waved around? i mean now you've got me
|
||
scared. where are these guys with the dark glasses, etc. dare i say
|
||
what's really on my mind or will they come for me in the middle of
|
||
the night and drag me away to neanderthal land?
|
||
talk to me.....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MIKI
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: sympathy
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:41:59
|
||
Message Number 1011
|
||
|
||
oh goody, i got in on the ground floor. i'll be back but i'm kinda
|
||
tired myself right now.
|
||
the gabber
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: MIKI
|
||
Subject: Dumb reptiles
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:47:10
|
||
Message Number 1012
|
||
|
||
Greetings! Welcome aboard! Run into you a few times on the gossip
|
||
echo, glad you finally decided to call! Pity it wasn't a couple of
|
||
minutes later, though; I'd have been around for chatting...
|
||
Anyway, at the moment there's not a whole lot going on in the
|
||
Social Issues department. In the Men With Dark Glasses department,
|
||
well, my phone line is being monitored by a person or persons
|
||
unknown, presumably because somebody somewhere believes I'm a sub-
|
||
versive element who's damaging our children. Oh well. Presumably
|
||
nobody's going to knock on your door and drag you off by the heels...I
|
||
mean, gosh, things like that are only supposed to happen in those
|
||
Commie countries, right? Of course, you'd think that things like
|
||
incessant phone bugging is only supposed to happen in those Commie
|
||
countries, too, but that's a kettle of donuts of a different color...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: MIKI
|
||
Subject: sympathy
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:53:07
|
||
Message Number 1013
|
||
|
||
Yikes! I gotta start deleting old messages...*yawn*
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 10:12:51
|
||
Message Number 1014
|
||
|
||
The Simpsons ranks up there with "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and
|
||
the really weird "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" narrated by Burl
|
||
Ives.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: CORWYN OF AMBER
|
||
Subject: catchy slogans
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:36:20
|
||
Message Number 1015
|
||
|
||
Close minded (sic) my ass! What do you want - flaming rhetoric,
|
||
fiery fists, or blazing pistols at 50 feet? Your choice.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: sigh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:40:23
|
||
Message Number 1016
|
||
|
||
Love: Six bucs Senor...Carmen (Tijuana)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: sigh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:45:18
|
||
Message Number 1017
|
||
|
||
Neil Diamond ----Stephen King...no one likes pop success.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Life
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:49:46
|
||
Message Number 1018
|
||
|
||
Beer - it's only redeeming quality is that it contains alcohol...and
|
||
it keeps ethnic Germans from drinking anything better.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAURON
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: catchy slogans
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:54:05
|
||
Message Number 1019
|
||
|
||
How much levity would you have if it was YOUR face being torn from
|
||
your neck, and your life's-blood pumping into a vacuum device?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Well...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 21:41:59
|
||
Message Number 1020
|
||
|
||
So, how about another one?
|
||
\/\/\/\/\/
|
||
|
||
\/-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 21:44:03
|
||
Message Number 1021
|
||
|
||
SO LEMME AT IT!!!!! JUST HAND IT TO DONTHEN, It should (i think) be
|
||
quieter afterwords. If not we can always silence it for you......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: Aye!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 21:46:57
|
||
Message Number 1022
|
||
|
||
How about this weekend? On campus as my budget is a bit short at the
|
||
moment.
|
||
|
||
\/-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ASTRAL PRINCESS
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: .
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:32:10
|
||
Message Number 1024
|
||
|
||
I just wanted to say to everyone: DO not FEAR ASTRAL is here.
|
||
Now you can all feel better.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ASTRAL PRINCESS
|
||
To: MIKI
|
||
Subject: HI!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:33:30
|
||
Message Number 1025
|
||
|
||
HI! Nice to see you online here!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ASTRAL PRINCESS
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:34:55
|
||
Message Number 1026
|
||
|
||
Aren't you meant to kick a squeaky hard drive?
|
||
I will buy you some oil for Christmas, to pour on it. Might help?
|
||
Meanwhile, feliz navidad!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:58:15
|
||
Message Number 1028
|
||
|
||
Simpsons Special- THUMBS UP! Yes, it will be aired again the 23rd AND,
|
||
The Simpsons will leave Tracey Ullman (or did they already?) BUt they
|
||
will get THEIR~ OWN SERIES!
|
||
Married...With Children special- Very good, missed the ending. Seemed
|
||
like the first half hour was an episode all to itself. I was expecting
|
||
the WHOLE episode to be about the guardian angel thing. Plenty of
|
||
written oportunities for Kinison to YELL, which annoys me!! leave it out
|
||
!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: sigh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:02:28
|
||
Message Number 1029
|
||
|
||
>>Neil Diamond ----Stephen King...no one likes pop success.
|
||
|
||
What does that mean. I suppose I skipped reading a message (or two)
|
||
somewhere...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: Well...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:32:11
|
||
Message Number 1030
|
||
|
||
>So, how about another one?
|
||
|
||
Well, if you've got one kicking around...it'd sure make my life easier
|
||
when I do a system backup. As it stands now, with only one 3.5" drive,
|
||
making a copy of the message disk involves a /lot/ of disk swapping...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ASTRAL PRINCESS
|
||
Subject: *
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:34:30
|
||
Message Number 1031
|
||
|
||
Welcome aboard! Happy to see you here. We can always use fresh faces
|
||
'round these parts, particularly those that don't go running in terror
|
||
the first time they log on and notice there's well over a thousand
|
||
messages in the message base...watched a couple of greenhorns do that
|
||
last night, in fact. Anyway, glad you could stop over; hope you'll
|
||
be doing so fairly often in the future...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: MIKI
|
||
Subject: Dumb reptiles
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:49:09
|
||
Message Number 1032
|
||
|
||
Dear Miki,
|
||
First of all, tapping is ILLEGAL for the government to do without
|
||
a court OK. Secondly, if they have asked the court about a permit to
|
||
tap (which I sincerely doubt!), they need to say what, specifically
|
||
they are looking for. Unless you are typing messages about hacking,
|
||
pirating, or phreaking, I doubt you'd be sent off to Neanderthal land.
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Dumb reptiles
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:51:33
|
||
Message Number 1033
|
||
|
||
>...because somebody somewhere believes I'm a subversive element
|
||
>who's damaging our children...
|
||
|
||
But, Turtle! You ARE a subversive element! You dare stand for the one
|
||
thing government cannot stand: reason...
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: catchy slogans
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:54:36
|
||
Message Number 1034
|
||
|
||
Dear Sauron,
|
||
As I've said, abortion is the worst method of birth control. I,
|
||
personally, hope that in the future it will NOT be necessary -- that
|
||
everyone in the future will be well enough educated in methods of
|
||
birth control that no unwanted children occur. I'm hoping that
|
||
scientists will develop another 'pill' with fewer side effects. In the
|
||
meanwhile, what are your views on capital punishment?
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: ASTRAL PRINCESS
|
||
Subject: .
|
||
Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:58:11
|
||
Message Number 1035
|
||
|
||
Quick! Head for the hills! Astral Princess has arrived on aLTER
|
||
rEALITY! If you escape now, you won't be done in by her vile
|
||
schemes! Ignore her beautiful face; don't gaze at her french toast;
|
||
she has seduced hundreds, leaving only lifeless husks behind...
|
||
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
|
||
Chip P. Unicorn
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 00:02:15
|
||
Message Number 1036
|
||
|
||
By the way, you should be a writer.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: PSYCHE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: Aye!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 02:02:57
|
||
Message Number 1037
|
||
|
||
Why not? On the other hand, we've yet to go to Livingston's or the
|
||
GALLERY. We really should sometime (maybe with Tad); we might as well,
|
||
however, make use of Ham Center while nobody's around. Remind me to
|
||
take you to one of the aforementioned classy joint, though.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 09:27:38
|
||
Message Number 1038
|
||
|
||
I dunno if I trust Donthen with it. He may decide to hook it up to
|
||
his computer and not give it back to me. I'll pop in at Donthen's one
|
||
day and let him have it.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ASTRAL PRINCESS
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 09:28:58
|
||
Message Number 1039
|
||
|
||
I've done everything short of kicking it. Actually, Raven is going to
|
||
oil it if he ever gets his hands on it Feliz Navidad...no spanish,
|
||
spanish bad...very evil....ack, help!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 09:30:26
|
||
Message Number 1040
|
||
|
||
Their own series?! Yippie... I agree that he got the chance to yell
|
||
quite a few times, but it was still pretty good.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Dumb reptiles
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 15:52:57
|
||
Message Number 1042
|
||
|
||
>Unless you are typing messages about hacking, pirating, or phreaking,
|
||
>I doubt you'd be sent off to Neanderthal land.
|
||
|
||
You know, that reminds me, I was hacking this pirate once, and the
|
||
little phreak ran away! I was so pissed I dropped my French toast.
|
||
--A hacker Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Bad reptiles
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 15:54:42
|
||
Message Number 1043
|
||
|
||
>But Turtle! You ARE a subversive element!
|
||
|
||
Oh yeah...I forgot. You know, that reminds me of this time I was on this
|
||
dangerous assignment for the CIA, and these KGB guys were on to me, so
|
||
I convinced them I was with the NVPD, which would have worked except
|
||
that they had a contact in the FBI who told them I was a charter member
|
||
of the NAACP and was UL listed, to boot, so they got out their NRA
|
||
specials (NYFD C of A #12290) and KO'd this IBM VIP and...well, never
|
||
mind.
|
||
--An SOL Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: catchy slogans
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 15:59:17
|
||
Message Number 1044
|
||
|
||
>I'm hoping that scientists will develop another 'pill' with fewer
|
||
>side effects.
|
||
|
||
And that it'll get FDA approval, presumably. How about RU-426? Works the
|
||
same way ordinary oral contraceptives do, can be used a few weeks after
|
||
conception to prevent the zygote from attaching to the uterine wall,
|
||
and to date has no known serious side-effects. I defy you to even TRY
|
||
to get it approved over here.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 16:02:56
|
||
Message Number 1045
|
||
|
||
>...he got the chance to yell quite a few times, but it was still pretty
|
||
>good.
|
||
|
||
Actually, two of those yells were really funny...the one where he meets
|
||
Al Bundy and screams "Nooooooo!" at the heavens, and the other at the
|
||
very end, when he's trying to get back into heaven and finds that
|
||
they've lost his luggage..."AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!" All in all, it was a
|
||
/really/ funny episode.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 19:46:15
|
||
Message Number 1046
|
||
|
||
There's nothing wrong with yelling, just to much yelling is bad ( unless
|
||
it's some boring class, where a small riot with lotsa yelling is
|
||
welcome ).
|
||
Arrgh..there I go again, babbling away. So, when's SCVM get down here?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: CHIP P. UNICORN
|
||
Subject: Tapping
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:19:06
|
||
Message Number 1047
|
||
|
||
From what I was told, operating a BBS constitutes a suficient reason
|
||
to monitor your phone line, so the courts would just give the warrant or
|
||
whatever and let them tap away...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:22:43
|
||
Message Number 1048
|
||
|
||
Yes, but did you ever notice that Kinison was doing a stand-up yelling
|
||
routine? If he looked up a bit more and looked more convincing, I would
|
||
take the yelling. Oh well, can't have everything, can we? At least he
|
||
wasn't censored like the time he was on Letterman...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Solar Shades!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:25:10
|
||
Message Number 1049
|
||
|
||
I dunno about you, but I like these Pizza Hut things! Yes, they are
|
||
worth the two bucks. They look neat and even protect your eyes from
|
||
those damn awful UV rays!
|
||
I also liked Back to the Future Part II, so I just HAD to get a pair
|
||
of the glasses! I got the round ones. Anyone else get the Solar Shades??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: PSYCHE
|
||
Subject: Aye!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:38:13
|
||
Message Number 1051
|
||
|
||
Already made it to the gallery w. Tad & Chip, give me a call thursday
|
||
or friday ... Livingston's might be good.
|
||
|
||
-R-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: ChristmasCon
|
||
Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:40:32
|
||
Message Number 1052
|
||
|
||
O'Tay Cap'n 'ope t' see ya soon -R-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 02:10:38
|
||
Message Number 1054
|
||
|
||
>So, when's SCVM get down here?
|
||
|
||
Well, actually, he's not. I talked to him about 3 days ago; evidently
|
||
he has some sort of job lined up elsewhere, or MAY have some sort of
|
||
job lined up elsewhere, or some such thing. At any rate, the upshot of
|
||
all of that is he isn't planning on coming down here any time in the
|
||
forseeable future. Kind of disappointing, really...he is nothing if not
|
||
an interesting person...
|
||
--A tired Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Now Available
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 03:44:48
|
||
Message Number 1055
|
||
|
||
For your downloading pleasure, a brief thumbnail sketch of the
|
||
Vengeance Computing PC-Z, one of the most interesting new personal
|
||
computers to come down the pike in decades. It's a really brief
|
||
file, and doesn't explain any of the proposed upgrades to the system,
|
||
but nevertheless makes for interesting reading. Check it out!
|
||
And remember: Down with IBM! Down with IBM! Down with IBM! May they
|
||
drown in a sea of corporate profit death and badly designed, slow
|
||
personal computers!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 08:05:04
|
||
Message Number 1056
|
||
|
||
Gee, that just makes my already depressed self, even more depressed.
|
||
On another note, it seems almost everytime ( 90% ) I call here or the
|
||
Den, you were the last caller, or I was the first called since rebooting
|
||
the system. Oh well...I'm going to do my shopping now. It's to early,
|
||
it'll be crowded, and I'll be gone for who knows how long when I can
|
||
have my shopping done in about 45 mins. Such is life.......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 12:17:58
|
||
Message Number 1057
|
||
|
||
>It seems almost everytime...I call here or the Den, you were the last
|
||
>caller...
|
||
|
||
Hmm. I don't generally call the Den or this board more than about once a
|
||
day. I've been on this board quite a bit over the last couple of days,
|
||
since I just got finished writing a new version of PBBSH (that's that
|
||
"Last Caller Was:" routine, in fact) and doing a BIG system backup. Oh
|
||
well. I guess you're just lucky...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHARLES DITTELL
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Thank you...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 19:26:19
|
||
Message Number 1058
|
||
|
||
...I know my secret is safe with you. BTW, when's the next Cell
|
||
Meeting?
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
(got that, PolyesterMan???)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CHARLES DITTELL
|
||
To: SAURON
|
||
Subject: Never Give Up..
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 19:29:27
|
||
Message Number 1059
|
||
|
||
No - no restrictions (Federal Law) - all beings (even non-sentient)
|
||
welcome!! BTW, when's the Snow Drop??
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
.
|
||
(Got that, PolyesterMan???)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: grrpt!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 23:22:09
|
||
Message Number 1060
|
||
|
||
Lucky may not be the proper word. Anyways, ho ho ho.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANYONE
|
||
Subject: Heavy Metal
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 09:37:45
|
||
Message Number 1061
|
||
|
||
Well, Heavy Metal is back at the midnight movies. Anyone wanna make
|
||
plans to go Saturday night/Sunday morning? Actually, I dunno if I can
|
||
go, but thought I'd ask. Oh yea, it's playing at Sarasota Square.
|
||
|
||
Ribbit...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CYCLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: TECH TALK
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 16:35:50
|
||
Message Number 1062
|
||
|
||
What about us (scuse me) CPM drones
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Heavy Metal
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 20:27:02
|
||
Message Number 1063
|
||
|
||
Hey! Sounds like a good idea...like, what's it cost to go? Saturday
|
||
would be a good time to see it; Sunday I'm heading for Ft. Myers,
|
||
and aLTER rEALITY will be on autopilot for a while...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Heavy Metal
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 22:36:51
|
||
Message Number 1064
|
||
|
||
It's also on Cinemax in February for all you collectors...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Heavy Metal
|
||
Date & Time: 12/21/89 22:56:49
|
||
Message Number 1065
|
||
|
||
Gee, I'm not sure for Midnight movies. It shouldn't be over $4.50. We
|
||
can stock up on Mountain Dew and donuts since AMC doesn't carry either.
|
||
( and if they did, it would be to expensive )
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: HEAVY METAL
|
||
Date & Time: 12/22/89 02:44:18
|
||
Message Number 1067
|
||
|
||
WELL, DUDE, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GIVE ME A CALL SOMETIME THIS SAT...
|
||
CRYSTAL AND I WILL PROBABLY END UP GOING TO THE MIDNIGHT SHOW, EVEN THOU
|
||
WE BOTH WATCHED IT ON VIDEOTAPE T_LAST WEEK...
|
||
SORRY BOUT THE UPPERCASE, I'M TYPING THIS FROM AN AT&T
|
||
UNIX MACHINE AT WORK...
|
||
--A DOUBLE-SPACING TURTLE
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: HEAVY METAL
|
||
Date & Time: 12/22/89 09:03:10
|
||
Message Number 1069
|
||
|
||
yea, well, I was going to leave you a message last night, but seeing how
|
||
our friends at FiPiL denied us power for 2 hours, I couldn't. I was in
|
||
the middle of that message when the power went phoomp ( yea, it actually
|
||
went phoomp ). I'll see if the folks say O.K. and call back here
|
||
before 5:30 p.m. ( you have my # if you need to call )
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MR. BUSTER
|
||
To: PIRATES
|
||
Subject: Heh, Heh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/22/89 15:00:53
|
||
Message Number 1070
|
||
|
||
Avast 'ye scurvy dog! I got a topic fer 'ye:
|
||
|
||
What 'ya feel about hackin', phreakin' and krackin'?
|
||
|
||
A topic I know I'm interested in!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: MR. BUSTER
|
||
Subject: Heh, Heh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/22/89 17:34:20
|
||
Message Number 1072
|
||
|
||
From the looks of things, you, Sir, wouldn't know a hacker if one bit
|
||
you on the ass. I have to wonder about a person who spells "cracking"
|
||
"krackin'", in a public message on a bulletin board WHOSE LOGON SCREEN
|
||
TELLS YOU THAT THIS PHONE LINE IS BEING MONITORED!! Quite frankly, Sir,
|
||
I am amazed you can actually work a computer. It is gentlemen like you
|
||
who give us REAL hackers a bad name.
|
||
|
||
Have an amazingly pleasant day, Sir.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ROCKY
|
||
To: EVERYONE!
|
||
Subject: SNOW!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/22/89 20:20:13
|
||
Message Number 1073
|
||
|
||
Well, I never believed I would actually see it, but as of RIGHT NOW
|
||
Sat Dec. 23 at 8:20 PM it is SNOWING out side my door! Yes, here in
|
||
Sarasota FL! The flakes are small, and not very well formed, but it IS
|
||
only 8:00 with a promise of -10 degree wind chill factor for tonight
|
||
here in this area. I hope that everyone around here gets to see the snow
|
||
falling here, as it is a VERY rare happening, but it is expected to
|
||
happen for several hours on into the early morning. Well, I'm going now
|
||
to go watch it somemore, as this is the first time in my life that I
|
||
have seen it snow here, this far south. Hope everyone sees it!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MR. BUSTER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Heh, Heh...
|
||
Date & Time: 12/22/89 23:23:01
|
||
Message Number 1074
|
||
|
||
Well, first of all, nothing was meant to offend.
|
||
2nd: "Cracking" has two spellings, in the pirate world...
|
||
3rd: You cannot get arrested for talking about a subject, only if you
|
||
partake in the subject being discussed.
|
||
4th: I am a Computer Science major at a rather reputable engineering
|
||
school. Beleive me, unfortunetly I know what a hacker is...
|
||
5th: I'm sorry for being interested in a rather taboo subject. In
|
||
my younger years I was very active and knew many a famous pirate, I
|
||
was just wondering if there was anyone "active" around here... It would
|
||
be interesting to hear some "stories".
|
||
|
||
Don't worry, you won't get busted for just talking... I wanted to raise
|
||
some eye-brows and I see I did!!
|
||
|
||
Merry Christmas,
|
||
|
||
- Mr. Buster
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ROCKY
|
||
Subject: SNOW!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/24/89 15:20:02
|
||
Message Number 1076
|
||
|
||
I saw it to. In fact, I collected enough snow to make a very small snow
|
||
ball, which I used to hit my dad. Boy, if it woulda been any bigger, I
|
||
coulda caused some real damage. My dad ( who's been here for 28+ years)
|
||
says this is the most he's seen in Sarasota. I think it has snowed
|
||
twice before in Sarasota.
|
||
And to think Bart Fox went to Ohio for a white Christmas!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: SNOW!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/24/89 15:31:38
|
||
Message Number 1077
|
||
|
||
Me 'tinks ets time t' move further south. I moved here from Oregon, and
|
||
as find this weather to be a pain in the ass. Cold & dry I like, Hot
|
||
and either dry or humid is good, but this cold and humid crap is a real
|
||
pain in the arse! (Oh, by the by, my grandmother, who grew up in
|
||
Bradenton, did not believe that it was half their temperature here, and
|
||
David Kone's jaw hit the ground when he called last night). A HEAVY
|
||
sbowfall would have been wonderful (what would SRQ do w. it?); imagine
|
||
all these people who have _never_ had to deal w. icy roads, and have
|
||
problems w. wet ones. . .
|
||
|
||
-R-
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Merry Xmas!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/24/89 17:00:28
|
||
Message Number 1078
|
||
|
||
Well, I'm departing soon to go down to Fort Myers and do the "spend your
|
||
Christmas with friends and family" thang, so the board will be on
|
||
autopilot for a while. Anyway, have a good, if cold, wet, miserable,
|
||
damp, SNOWY, freezing, gray, gloomy, dreary, grim, harsh, windy, chilly,
|
||
wet, wretched, and not terribly sunny Christmas, y'all, and I'll be back
|
||
in a few days!
|
||
--A cold, wet, miserable, freezing, gray, gloomy Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: SNOW!!!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/24/89 23:52:02
|
||
Message Number 1079
|
||
|
||
There are three types of weather I like:
|
||
Cold and dry
|
||
Hot and dry
|
||
Hot, with a very heavy, nah, torrent like, rainfall!
|
||
Anyways, Happy Vacationdays, and may the force ( = mass * Acceleration )
|
||
be with you.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Merry Xmas!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/24/89 23:55:29
|
||
Message Number 1080
|
||
|
||
Well, Happy Holidays, and if you see this, when can I get my tape back?
|
||
And I hope your BBS will set itself up if the power goes, cause FPL may
|
||
or may not continue (sp?) with "Let'
|
||
[ARG] ..."Let's have a blackout for a while." This morning, we had
|
||
about 12 power outages within 5-6 minutes. I'm glad I didn't have my
|
||
computer on or I woulda been really angry.
|
||
Anyways, have fun, and I thought turtles liked wet weather?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CYBERPUNK
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: new bbs
|
||
Date & Time: 12/26/89 10:17:17
|
||
Message Number 1081
|
||
|
||
hey guys, i finally got my bbs up!! call it!!!
|
||
Damage Inc. BBS!! 813-371-0888 300/1200 baud!! call now..
|
||
sysop:Cyberpunk!!
|
||
SEE-ya there!!
|
||
Cy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: RU-426
|
||
Date & Time: 12/27/89 00:40:18
|
||
Message Number 1085
|
||
|
||
>How about RU-426? Works the same way ordinary oral contraceptives do
|
||
|
||
Actually, no. RU-426 needs to be administered with another drug to
|
||
obtain high success rates (can't remember what the other one is, I'll
|
||
look it up -- but THAT must be administered intravenously). Without
|
||
the interaction of the other drug RU-426 has only about a 60% success
|
||
rate.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject:
|
||
Date & Time: 12/28/89 23:12:24
|
||
Message Number 1092
|
||
|
||
Well, All, it's been an interesting Christmas season. While busily
|
||
unwrapping gifts and doing the Christmas dinner thing, I hope you all
|
||
had time to reflect upon some of the finer points of Christmas, like:
|
||
|
||
Why are all Christmas cards you see in Hallmark stores either trite or
|
||
banal, or at worst can only aspire to triteness or banality? I swear, if
|
||
I see one more card with the phrase "special friend," the words "Holiday
|
||
cheer," "Yuletide cheer," or anything "Spirit," I'm going to scream
|
||
and put the cat through the wall. Yeech! Shopping for Christmas cards
|
||
is a nightmare. I am thinking of starting my own line of unorthodox,
|
||
CREATIVE holiday greeting cards, Death To You All Enterprises, to
|
||
combat the evil scourge of sappy holiday yeech. (Look for them wherever
|
||
Bill the Cat stuffed toys are sold.) Our product line is, of course,
|
||
confidential, but here's one guarantee: you won't see a fat man who
|
||
plays with elves on any of 'em!
|
||
--An annoyed-at-banality Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Merry Xmas!
|
||
Date & Time: 12/28/89 23:17:36
|
||
Message Number 1093
|
||
|
||
Well, sorry I took so long in replying to your last post; I've been out
|
||
to lunch for the last several days. One at a time, from the top:
|
||
>...when can I get my tape back?
|
||
By all means, come over and pick it up. My car is dead; you see, it
|
||
gallantly sacrificed its life to rescue this innocent young lady from
|
||
these Hells' Angels bikers, and...well, no, I'm making that up. Actually
|
||
it has a broken clutch.
|
||
>I hope your BBS can set itself up if the power fails...
|
||
Nope. Sure 'nuff, I came back the day after Christmas and the 'pooter
|
||
was patiently waiting for someone to type in the date. If you called
|
||
on Christmas and didn't get anything, well, it serves you right for
|
||
calling on Christmas instead of digging for loot in the first place.
|
||
Bleah.
|
||
--A slow Turtle
|
||
Hey, wanna buy a Volkswagen?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THE UNENLIGHTENED
|
||
Subject: Shining Path
|
||
Date & Time: 12/28/89 23:22:13
|
||
Message Number 1094
|
||
|
||
As I sat upon a mountaintop these last few days, pondering the meaning
|
||
of it all, it came to me in a dream...the Shining Path, the Road to
|
||
Salvation, the Way of the Aardvark. Yes! My life, once dark and lost,
|
||
is now filled with Meaning and Purpose. Truly is the blessed Way of
|
||
the Aardvark the only road to spiritual enlightenment. Watch this
|
||
space for more information...
|
||
--A guru Turtle
|
||
(c) 1989 Anarchy Now, Inc.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Hey? What can I say? You've gotta love an animal that can stick its
|
||
tongue down an anthill, and ants will stick to it but sand won't. I
|
||
was impressed.
|
||
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From: TURTLE
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To: ALL
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Subject: New files!
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Date & Time: 12/29/89 02:38:56
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Message Number 1095
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Now available in the aLTER rEALITY library: The Canonical Collection
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of Light Bulb Jokes, for your amusement; and Phrases.Txt, a large
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collection of assorted sayings and pithy quotes. Check 'em out!
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(Xmodem only, please; offer void in VA, VT, or any other state
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containing the letter "V." Thank you for your support.)
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: sigh...
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Date & Time: 12/29/89 20:18:54
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Message Number 1096
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oh crap????? thats nice!
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Cy
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: CHIP P. UNICORN
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Subject: life
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Date & Time: 12/29/89 20:25:49
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Message Number 1097
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hey Chip, i'd like to ask you something....
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what does Awqk mean and how do you pronounce it(it's in message #996)
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and what about Yarg??? it sounds like a pathetic way of saying puke!!
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hehehe just wondering!!
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Cy
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P.S. hey everyone, cal my bbs!!! Damage Inc. BBS!!! 300/1200 baud
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813-371-0888!!!! Call Now
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From: CYBERPUNK
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Solar Shades!
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Date & Time: 12/29/89 20:37:05
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Message Number 1098
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you know, i saw the movie too, but i didn't see those damned solar
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shades anyware in the wholedamn movie!!!
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--- a frustrated Cy
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From: TURTLE
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To: CYBERPUNK
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Subject: life
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Date & Time: 12/30/89 02:51:20
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Message Number 1100
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Well, I don't know about Awqk, but Yarg is a way of saying "The pre-
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ceeding flame is high in sarcasm and should not be taken seriously by
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members of Congress, the Moral Majority, or anybody else, for that
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matter." As in:
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Assembly is the only TRUE computer language! Real men use Assembly for
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everything! Anyone who would use anything else is a semi-intelligent
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putz who wouldn't know a real program if it bit him on the ass! People
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who use high-level languages are worthless and weak! People who WRITE
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high level languages are illiterate anal retentives who were potty
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trained at gunpoint! Assembly is best for /everything/! NO self-
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respecting person would EVER even CONSIDER using some wimpy inferior
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language! Yarg! Yarg!
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--A Websterian Turtle
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(By the way, I really do feel that way about Assembly...)
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