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Skriven 2014-03-04 09:05:00 av Ed Vance (12642.windowsa)
    Kommentar till text 953 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
Ärende: Re: Foxit Reader Tip
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03-03-14 11:56 Paul Quinn wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Foxit Reader Tip

 PQ> @MSGID: <53146A11.12635.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 PQ> Hi! Ed,

 PQ> On Sat, 01 Mar 14, you wrote to me:
Hi Paul,
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 EV> I have downloaded a C=64 emulator but haven't tried it out.

 PQ> Yep, I know the feeling.  It's one of those priority #99 jobs
 PQ> that you just know is gonna be a headache.  So, it stays as the
 PQ> 99th job.

I don't do it that way, if I learn about a free program that sounds
interesting to me I grab it and it goes to my ROUNDTUIT List.

Sometimes I look at the files I've saved a long time ago and have to
try to figure what they are for and why I downloaded it.

I remember someone saying this:

"Get all you can, Can all you get, sit on the lid and poison the rest."

I don't do that last part, but I thought about it while reading your
message to me.

 EV> I learned to save GWbasic files with the ,a option so QBasic could
 EV> run them.

 PQ> Ooh, nice.  I'm guessing it's an ASCII save option, without
 PQ> looking at any doco files.

Yep!, Give that man a 20 cent cigar!, QBASIC knows how to read ASCII
and with a little effort GW-BASIC can save the file as ASCII.
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 PQ> Around-about that time I visited a mate's house, who was living
 PQ> with about 2-3 other blokes.  They had an IBM PC of some sort
 PQ> running a dial-up BBS that was a game server for a couple of
 PQ> games, as well as a 'gateway' for play-by-mail moves to be
 PQ> entered.  Yes, people were playing games using snail-mail to
 PQ> make moves & getting results back!  The PC was hooked up to an
 PQ> accoustic coupler for modem players.  No shoes in the house!
 PQ> because of the polished wooden floor, lest the noise play havoc
 PQ> with the handset+coupler.

I remember an old TV show called The Advengers where Steed visited
a Ham Radio Operators home and the man there had Chess Games on several
tables, and when someone called him on his radio with their move he
would make their move and call them back telling them his move.

Which made me think of two young Hams that did the same thing on a
local Ham Radio Frequency.
Someone would be talking on the freqency and one of them would ask to
Break In and just call the other guy and state his Chess Move and hear
the other guy acknowledge it, and they would sign out until the next
time one of them decided to tell what move they made.
No one on the Frequency minded them using it that way.
They were having fun, and Ham Radio is Fun!.

In the U.S.A. Ham Radio is celebrating its Centennial this year.
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 EV> One thing I liked about the Commodore Disk Drive was it had DOS
 EV> inside the drive on a ROM, I didn't have to use a HELLO disk as the
 EV> ][ users had to have to wake up the Apple DOS.    <GRIN>

 PQ> That brings back memories.  :)  Somehow, during swapmeets, I
 PQ> picked up a really nice Applebasic utility that I set as the
 PQ> (autoexec.bat-type) boot program after loading AppleDOS.  It
 PQ> provided a menu based on the directory listing for the floppy
 PQ> and ran a continuously-spinning ticker-style option list at the
 PQ> bottom of the menu to run any listed executables.  It was the
 PQ> 'ants pants' of menu programs.

That sounds like a Utility I'd love to use if I was on a Apple ][,
AND I LOVE UTILITIES!!!!!!!!!!!

... Forget what I said yesterday. The world will end today.
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