<p>This thread reminds of a good Monty Python sketch called four Yorkshiremen. Below is a YouTube link for those who have missed out.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw</a></p>
<p>Jonathan</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 30, 2012 9:23 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I used to have a Coleco Adam which was cool. It came with a daisy wheel printer and an RF converter to use your TV as the monitor so was a complete computer out of the box. It also had a fast tape drive it controlled rather than one you had to hit stop and start on like other computers of the era. It had CP/M and various applications and you could buy a SSDD floppy drive for it. Since it was from Coleco it also played the games designed for the Colecovision. One of my favorite arcade games back in the 80s was Time Pilot and I was thrilled when I found that they'd made it for Colecovision.<br>
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Coleco might have ended up owning the gaming market except they thought Cabbage Patch dolls would keep them in business forever so they quit focusing on apparently useless products like games and computers.<br>
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I don't remember anything Xerox, but would that be about the same time as a kaypro II CP/M machine? With a daisey wheel printer that shook the building...<br>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, James Taylor wrote:<br>
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> Age is relative. After all, who hasn't used Wordstar on a CP/M based<br>
> Xerox 820 with the mapped function keys?<br>
> (*crickets chirping*)<br>
> -jt<br>
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> James Taylor<br>
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>>>> "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> 10/29/2012 02:34 PM >>><br>
> Wordstar. Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing :p<br>
><br>
> My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123<br>
> version 1A. Back in those days even the format command assumed you<br>
> meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format<br>
> A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive<br>
> you'd started the format command from. Back then we didn't even have<br>
> "D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.<br>
><br>
> 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 then<br>
> had been the killer word processing app.<br>
><br>
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> Beddingfield, Allen<br>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com">simontek@gmail.com</a>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about 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 was<br>
> open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D Figuring out the<br>
> pid at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.<br>
> As 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 I<br>
> used to be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up<br>
> - especially when you open it with "jstar"<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Allen Beddingfield<br>
> Systems Engineer<br>
> 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>> wrote:<br>
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>> I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I<br>
> know<br>
>> use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the<br>
> program, I<br>
>> don't need it.<br>
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