Text 15900, 86 rader
Skriven 2012-06-12 22:03:00 av Ed Vance (2333.fi-linux)
  Kommentar till text 15896 av PAUL QUINN (3:640/384)
Ärende: vBox & U'u7.04
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PQ>Hi! Ed,
Hi Paul,

PQ>On Sun, 03 Jun 12, you wrote to me:

PQ> EV> I've been using DoPDF a lot since You told me about it.
PQ> EV> I set it to make Small files of things I want to keep.

PQ>That might have been Tom Walker who told you about it.  I've never used it,
a
PQ>I've had the linux VM providing the facility for all machines for over eight
PQ>years now.

Here I've been thinking it was you who told me of DoPDF and I find out I
was wrong, it was Carroll McAllister in the Windows95 echo who suggested
it for me to use back in April 2011.

I knew it wasn't Tom or Jean and thought it had to had been you.

Tis ain't the first time I've goofed in writing from off the top of my
head.

PQ>I just did a stats query with my Windows TC on my main PDF library.  There's
PQ>925 files across 29 directories, totalling 440megs.  I know that there's a
lo
PQ>of overhead with the PDF format but they usually have a _lot_ of graphics

Although lately I've been using DoPDF quite a bit to save screens in
Firefox, I'm no where close to having 440MBs of PDFs.

PQ> EV> I haven't been on UseNet but in my old days I started out with a 300
PQ> EV> baud modem that connected to the telephone handset cord.

PQ>An internal modem?  I used to swear by them until I got sick of pulling
PQ>machines apart just to move the modem from PC to PC.  My first one was a
gift
PQ>from a sysop back in the early 90s, an old 300/1200 baud (thought 1200 was
ve
PQ>unreliable).

The modem was a external modem that plugged in the back of a Commodore
64 or VIC-20 pc.

It had a Handset Cord RJ-11 style jack (for the smaller handset plug)
instead of a Line Cord jack in it.

I had a MaBell 500 series Phone that was hardwired and couldn't use it
but got around that problem by going to a friend who gave me a
transformer from a telephone he had and I connected a pair of wires with
a RJ-ll plug on the end of it, and another pair of wires with a handset
jack sized plug on the end of it to go into the VIC-MODEM.

I never had a internal modem until I bought this XP box in 2006.

When I had the 486 PC built in 1994 I used the 2400 baud external modem
I used with the C=64 until I got a 28.8K modem to replace it.

The 2400 baud modem was made by Packard-Bell and the only problem I had
while using it with the C=64 was that it would get 1200 baud connections
fine but never could do 2400 with the Commodore 64 computer.

PQ> EV> I was just one step away from using a Audio coupled modem then.

PQ>I've seen one of them thar things!  :)  Back in the early 80s, I used to
play
PQ>boardgames at a house where an on-line business used to operate from, which
PQ>took orders over the accoustic coupler attached to an early BBS.  The house
h
PQ>a polished wooden floor so we had to tippy-toe around in socks, so as to not
PQ>annoy the modem.  Have you ever tried to tip-toe in socks over a polished
PQ>floor?  It ain't easy (for a big bloke).  :)

I saw one too in the mid 1980's that a friend wanted to connect to his
Apple II pc.

PQ> EV> Saturday I made a new vBox for U'u 7.04, 512MB RAM, 8GB FIXED HD
PQ> >>>> Continued to next message

PQ>Oooh... more adventures...

Yep!


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