<p>YOU HAD A HAMMER? !? All I had was a piece of bacon and a wet match </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 29, 2012 10:51 PM, "Scott Castaline" <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Oh, man! Back in my day I had 1 hammer and 6 chisels<br>
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On 10/29/2012 02:34 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> Wordstar. Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing :p<br>
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> My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus<br>
> 123 version 1A. Back in those days even the format command<br>
> assumed you meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format"<br>
> rather than "format A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily<br>
> overwrite the C: drive you'd started the format command from. Back<br>
> then we didn't even have "D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was<br>
> pre-Simpsons.<br>
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> I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how<br>
> its big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting<br>
> codes at will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until<br>
> then had been the killer word processing app.<br>
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> -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a><br>
> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen Sent:<br>
> Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM To: <a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com">simontek@gmail.com</a>; Atlanta<br>
> Linux Enthusiasts Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about<br>
> myself<br>
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> I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs<br>
> onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it<br>
> was open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D Figuring out<br>
> the pid at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW. As<br>
> for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config<br>
> file mangler!" They work great a long as no one opens a complex<br>
> config file with really long lines. I'm also partial to joe, since<br>
> I used to be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences<br>
> match up - especially when you open it with "jstar"<br>
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> -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama<br>
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> On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com">simontek@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com">simontek@gmail.com</a>><br>
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>> I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I<br>
>> know use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit<br>
>> the program, I don't need it. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile<br>
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Rich Faulkner<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@tux86.org">rfaulkner@tux86.org</a>> Sender: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> Date: Mon, 29<br>
>> Oct 2012 13:09:45 To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> Subject: Re:<br>
>> [ale] Introduction and info about myself<br>
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