Hmmm... DVD is only 540 horizontal resolution (according to the EIA)

I have a friend that helped develop their (Tandy) ARCNET hardware.

 

Actually, he should get along well with MassiveEgo. He'll respond
to anything in the most foul manner.

 

MassiveProng wrote:

Sure.

*plonk*



Brian

 

So I noticed.


Brian

 

Sure.


*plonk*



Brian

 

And what was the backbone site? Seismo? So much of the stuff on
my machine came in via a uucp bang path, and here in the East
almost everything seemed to go through Seismo.

I brought up a leaf and then a node in about 1985 on a Radio Shack
model 16 with Xenix. In a year or so we had three nodes in this
area [Orlando] feeding about 100+ others. I got a backup feed from
GE in Daytona, the main site got one from [oh my gawd - my memory
is going - but it was a comptuer mfr starting with C]

And I STILL post using a vi text editor And 80x24 text with
trn. [and I run my own new server on THIS machine - and I'm the
only user - but it means everything is always there - instantly.
I'm just an old fart who dislikes having to take my hands off the
keys to play with a rodent. I guess I'm an anachronism.

And a total daily feed of 6MB in 1985/6 meant that if you were an
avid reader you could read ALL the posts in the ALL the NGs.

It was really nice in those days with the ban on advertising
becuase of Arpanet and all the university sites.

And the level of posts seemed to be much higher as it took a bit of
technical knowledge to get connected - but that may be just an
impresison from a fading memory.


Bill

 

Was it a Commodore Pet micro-computer ?

Not the easiest one to program, as I remember.
Think I attached a tape recorder to one, or it could have
been the one EXXon sold ... can't remember.

Hope someone saved a few of the old obscure micros, like
the Star, Mits Altair, Amiga, etc. If I remember correctly, I started
coding on the first one in ~ 1969, or 1970. Geesh, how the time flies.
LOL - I purchased a number of them to try & find one to write a generalized
accounting program on, but got busy with other projects & never finished
the code rewrite from the IBM 360 programs. LOL - left a few billions
on the table with that clever choice

Gene

 

:
: And what was the backbone site? Seismo? So much of the stuff on
: my machine came in via a uucp bang path, and here in the East
: almost everything seemed to go through Seismo.

My backbone site was MCNC between Duke and UNC and we had Alvin, Simon and
Theodore as our in basement servers, all DEC mainframes. Consumption of
vast amounts of alcohol since those halcyon days has removed everything but
a few memories of commands I once gave to make these three dinosaurs do
their stuff, but I still have vivid memories (and years later continuing
nightmares) of sitting at a command/control station teletext like device and
typing in line by line backup and restore instructions. Make one tying
mistake, and you had to start from the top (after making an escape and
setting the bitch back to receiving command mode).

UUCP is a point-to-point connection protocol, and instead of the network
looking to the user like an amorphous blob, it had the form of a graph
(in the graph-theory sense). "Network maps" were produced from time to
time which looked like this. (The machine names are real, but the
connections are drawn at random.)

utzoo ----- decvax ------ seismo ----- ihnp4
| | |
ittvax harpo mcvax
|\---utcsri |
| ---lsuc duke ----- unc
dciem |
phs

Now the thing is that on such a diagram you can choose to emphasize a
set of lines forming a path through the hosts -- say "utzoo - decvax
- seismo - ihnp4". The "backbone" was simply a group of hosts whose
admins agreed to form such a connected set, and to devote whatever
resources were necessary to carry all the Usenet traffic and to pass
it on promptly (rather than, say, waiting for overnight when their
machine was less busy, as other sites often did).

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/marthag/News/backbone_cabal


: And I STILL post using a vi text editor And 80x24 text with
: trn. [and I run my own new server on THIS machine - and I'm the
: only user - but it means everything is always there - instantly.
: I'm just an old fart who dislikes having to take my hands off the
: keys to play with a rodent. I guess I'm an anachronism.

gawd! still using the vi editor. all I can remember are the escape
sequences all of which end in *bang* (they outta make you a living
treasure).

 

Yes. I was only 14 in 1986. How much money did you have at age 14?

 

:
: Low Life #3 wrote:
: > : >
: > : Cool. I had a computer in 1986 (commodore=128), but no modem, no
: > : printer.. My parents made me buy one piece at a time, so in 1985 was
: > : the computer. 1986 was the disk drive. .....
: >
: > your *parents*? > please.
:
:
: Yes. I was only 14 in 1986. How much money did you have at age 14?

ok, off the hook.. a child prodigy

 

You're asking one troll not to feed another troll.

But for the rest of us, plonking both of them would be advisable, unless
you really want to witness an arugment that likens to South Park's
'Cripple fight!' episode.

 

Reminds me of how my sister's AG Bear toys (she had 2 of them) would "talk"
to each other for hours on end...

It was amusing at first, but later you just wanted to rip out their
batteries to shut the dumb things up.

 

So I determined.

Done it.



Brian

 

You're not the only one. I still use vi with tin, though I admit to moving
to pine for email (much nicer than plain old 'mail').

 

I use nn with emacs, but with an 80x34 window. I find it *much* faster
to browse newsgroups using a text newsreader.

Now there's a flame war that many young 'uns have never heard of...
vi vs. emacs ;-)

 

I don't know. I guess it depends on what field you're in.

"VI or emacas?" was an actual question asked in an interview. I answered
"vi" and the interviewer replied "Correct." I don't know if there's
really an right answer there, or if the interviewer just wanted to see if
I knew what he was talking about.

One of my former bosses was a big emacs fan. He basically used emacs as
his shell. He did everything with emacs. Mail, news, command shell...

 

Well I prefer joe but since it's not available on my mac, I suffer
through with pico (or whatever comes up when I type pico.)

dick
-- for those of you who don't remember joe is basically wordstar.

 

Which makes me think that your name should be Kenny, and should
already be dead. The thing ripped off should be your head.

 

This little wuss got pissed at the other guy, and started following
him around declaring him to be a troll after nearly every post he
makes.

Who is the troll?

I say, it's the BrianTard.

 

Get the source, and make a MAC port, crybaby! :-]