[ale] Introduction and info about myself

Wed Oct 31 11:34:25 EDT 2012

This thread reminds of a good Monty Python sketch called four Yorkshiremen.
Below is a YouTube link for those who have missed out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

Jonathan
On Oct 30, 2012 9:23 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tom
> Freeman
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:56 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
>
> 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...
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, James Taylor wrote:
>
> > Age is relative. After all, who hasn't used Wordstar on a CP/M based
> > Xerox 820 with the mapped function keys?
> > (*crickets chirping*)
> > -jt
> >
> >
> > James Taylor
> > 678-697-9420
> > james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> >
> >
> >
> >>>> "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> 10/29/2012   02:34 PM >>>
> > Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p
> >
> > My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus 123
> > version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command assumed you
> > meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format" rather than "format
> > A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily overwrite the C: drive
> > you'd started the format command from.  Back then we didn't even have
> > "D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was pre-Simpsons.
> >
> > I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how
> > its big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting
> > codes at will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until then
> > had been the killer word processing app.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> > Beddingfield, Allen
> > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM
> > To: simontek at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
> >
> > I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs
> > onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it was
> > open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out the
> > pid at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW.
> > As for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config
> > file mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex
> > config file with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since I
> > used to be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences match up
> > - especially when you open it with "jstar"
> >
> > --
> > Allen Beddingfield
> > Systems Engineer
> > The University of Alabama
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com" <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I
> > know
> >> use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit the
> > program, I
> >> don't need it.
> >> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at tux86.org>
> >> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org
> >> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:09:45
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> >> Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself
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