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On Jan 18, 8:28*am, HK wrote:
Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message om... I remember Geoworks...at least the name. Not much else. Geoworks came out around the same time as Windows 3.0 and was a similar GUI interface. I think the original Apple computers had the first mouse driven "click" to navigate type GUI OS and Geoworks was an attempt at a PC version Last I knew, Geoworks was still around but not doing this type of program software development. Eisboch When I was about to buy my first pc, IBM and Apple had just come out with competing models...the Apple Macintosh I think it was called. Anyway, I looked at both, and decided against the Apple because the company was charging extra for add-on numeric keyboard and the numerics were part of the standard IBM keyboard. My first pc came with WordStar. I hated it. Fortunately, a few days later, I stopped by the computer store to whine, and the sales guy gave me something called Volkswriter. It was *the* word processor for computer newbies like me. Great little word processor. Had a clackety-clack daisywheel printer and a real slow Hayes modem. Now, as my crepitude approaches, I have pulled my PC desktop out of service to set it up as a server and for the moment I am using my Apple Mac as both a Mac and a PC. I need the PC mode because for a couple of the software packages I use, there are no Mac counterparts. One of these happens to be the software for my Garmin chart plotter. Most of the software suites, though, work about the same on Macs and PCs. Some of the Mac software is a bit more ergonomic than the PC software. As soon as I get around to it, I'll be setting up an Apple desktop machine.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You keep talking about your "server". Don't you mean back up computer? What software are you running on this so called server? |
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"HK" wrote in message ... My first pc came with WordStar. I hated it. Fortunately, a few days later, I stopped by the computer store to whine, and the sales guy gave me something called Volkswriter. It was *the* word processor for computer newbies like me. Great little word processor. Had a clackety-clack daisywheel printer and a real slow Hayes modem. My first word processor was a Magnavox VideoWriter, purchased in the late 1980s. It was a dedicated word processing machine with built-in printer. Even had a spell check. I wrote many proposals and reports on it before finally getting a real PC .... the Laser Pal 286. I gave the VideoWriter away. I shouldn't have. They have become a collectible item and have a weird, cult following. http://www.eisboch.com/mvw.JPG Eisboch |
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On Jan 18, 9:41*am, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 8:28 am, HK wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message news:FqmdnevrffQ8gO7UnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@earthlink .com... I remember Geoworks...at least the name. Not much else. Geoworks came out around the same time as Windows 3.0 and was a similar GUI interface. I think the original Apple computers had the first mouse driven "click" to navigate type GUI OS and Geoworks was an attempt at a PC version Last I knew, Geoworks was still around but not doing this type of program software development. Eisboch When I was about to buy my first pc, IBM and Apple had just come out with competing models...the Apple Macintosh I think it was called. Anyway, I looked at both, and decided against the Apple because the company was charging extra for add-on numeric keyboard and the numerics were part of the standard IBM keyboard. My first pc came with WordStar. I hated it. Fortunately, a few days later, I stopped by the computer store to whine, and the sales guy gave me something called Volkswriter. It was *the* word processor for computer newbies like me. Great little word processor. Had a clackety-clack daisywheel printer and a real slow Hayes modem. Now, as my crepitude approaches, I have pulled my PC desktop out of service to set it up as a server and for the moment I am using my Apple Mac as both a Mac and a PC. I need the PC mode because for a couple of the software packages I use, there are no Mac counterparts. One of these happens to be the software for my Garmin chart plotter. Most of the software suites, though, work about the same on Macs and PCs. Some of the Mac software is a bit more ergonomic than the PC software. As soon as I get around to it, I'll be setting up an Apple desktop machine.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You keep talking about your "server". Don't you mean back up computer? What software are you running on this so called server? I don't need a "back up computer." I have an HP MediaSmart Server, which runs MS's Windows Home Server software, does automatic backups, and runs a distribution system for movies, music, et cetera. I'm not running any software on my future server. I haven't set it up yet. I'm in the process of cleaning it up, doing a couple of hardware upgrades, et cetera. It still has a copy of VISTA on it. Why are you so interested in this?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Pfffttt..... google, google, google...... Windoze hero;) |
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Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message m... BAR wrote: hk wrote: BAR wrote: hk wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a lot more than I paid for my iPod. Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get to the music on another card, well... You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need. I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of space. Eisboch My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it was only 20megs... Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running? Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than 20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks. Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box. What OS did you run on this Compupro '286? DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro. But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early version of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy. I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast. I remember a version of Flight Simulator than ran from a floppy on the pre-286 machines (forget the nomenclature). The "airplane" was nothing more than a cross and there really wasn't any terrain to speak of. BTW, the Laser Pal 286 computers I had (the first computers I had in the company) ran on DOS 4.1 and were loaded with the GeoWorks Ensemble and Prodigy using a 2400-baud modem. The GeoWorks Ensemble was a Windows-like program that included a wordprocesser, a spreadsheet and something else that I can't remember. Processor speed was either 8 or 12 MHz (no typo), depending on the position of a "turbo" button. It seems that 12 MHz was too fast for some of the software of the day. It had 640k (that's "k") of memory with an additional 384K of "extended" memory. Drives: 5 1/4-inch 1.2MB floppy, 3 1/2-inch 1.44MB floppy, 42MB hard With monitor, it was just under $2000. Eisboch Yeah, the first one we brought home was a Packard Bell, 20 mb hdd, 1.2mb-5 1/4" floppy, and a 12 baud modem.. Think it ran Dos 3.0 or something like that.. Can't remember the name of the system we had before that, it was some kind of game system based thing iirc... ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
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Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... BAR wrote: hk wrote: BAR wrote: hk wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a lot more than I paid for my iPod. Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get to the music on another card, well... You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need. I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of space. Eisboch My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it was only 20megs... Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running? Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than 20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks. Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box. What OS did you run on this Compupro '286? DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro. But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early version of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy. I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast. I remember a version of Flight Simulator than ran from a floppy on the pre-286 machines (forget the nomenclature). The "airplane" was nothing more than a cross and there really wasn't any terrain to speak of. BTW, the Laser Pal 286 computers I had (the first computers I had in the company) ran on DOS 4.1 and were loaded with the GeoWorks Ensemble and Prodigy using a 2400-baud modem. The GeoWorks Ensemble was a Windows-like program that included a wordprocesser, a spreadsheet and something else that I can't remember. Processor speed was either 8 or 12 MHz (no typo), depending on the position of a "turbo" button. It seems that 12 MHz was too fast for some of the software of the day. It had 640k (that's "k") of memory with an additional 384K of "extended" memory. Drives: 5 1/4-inch 1.2MB floppy, 3 1/2-inch 1.44MB floppy, 42MB hard With monitor, it was just under $2000. Eisboch Yeah, the first one we brought home was a Packard Bell, 20 mb hdd, 1.2mb-5 1/4" floppy, and a 12 baud modem.. Think it ran Dos 3.0 or something like that.. Can't remember the name of the system we had before that, it was some kind of game system based thing iirc... Oh yeah, the Pac Bell was an 8086 iirc... ----------------- www.Newsgroup-Binaries.com - *Completion*Retention*Speed* Access your favorite newsgroups from home or on the road ----------------- |
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SmallBoats.com wrote:
Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... BAR wrote: hk wrote: BAR wrote: hk wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a lot more than I paid for my iPod. Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get to the music on another card, well... You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need. I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of space. Eisboch My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it was only 20megs... Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running? Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than 20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks. Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box. What OS did you run on this Compupro '286? DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro. But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early version of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy. I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast. I remember a version of Flight Simulator than ran from a floppy on the pre-286 machines (forget the nomenclature). The "airplane" was nothing more than a cross and there really wasn't any terrain to speak of. BTW, the Laser Pal 286 computers I had (the first computers I had in the company) ran on DOS 4.1 and were loaded with the GeoWorks Ensemble and Prodigy using a 2400-baud modem. The GeoWorks Ensemble was a Windows-like program that included a wordprocesser, a spreadsheet and something else that I can't remember. Processor speed was either 8 or 12 MHz (no typo), depending on the position of a "turbo" button. It seems that 12 MHz was too fast for some of the software of the day. It had 640k (that's "k") of memory with an additional 384K of "extended" memory. Drives: 5 1/4-inch 1.2MB floppy, 3 1/2-inch 1.44MB floppy, 42MB hard With monitor, it was just under $2000. Eisboch Yeah, the first one we brought home was a Packard Bell, 20 mb hdd, 1.2mb-5 1/4" floppy, and a 12 baud modem.. Think it ran Dos 3.0 or something like that.. Can't remember the name of the system we had before that, it was some kind of game system based thing iirc.. ----------------- Gee...and I thought my 300 bps modem was slow. A 12 baud modem? Some network guru you are. |
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On 16-Jan-2009, hk wrote: Who needs WMDs to take down the United States? WMD's would save money and make it less painless. Without WMD's, 65% of "Americans" still have to send their depressed wages to Asian countries for cars, 99% of them have to send the remainder of their declining wages to red China, Viet Nam and other 3rd world sink holes for their less expensive household items and wardrobe. With this behavior ongoing for 30 years, however, it won't take long (1, 1.5 years?) to complete the job. The results will NOT be reversed, however, even if the scum in government borrow enough money from other countries to double your pittance handout for your ongoing silence. (to $2K). Kruschev was right. Learn to live like Mexicans and Haitians. You DO reap what you sew. |
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On Jan 18, 7:18*pm, D K wrote:
hk wrote: wrote: On Jan 18, 8:28 am, HK wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message news:FqmdnevrffQ8gO7UnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@earthlin k.com... I remember Geoworks...at least the name. Not much else. Geoworks came out around the same time as Windows 3.0 and was a similar GUI interface. I think the original Apple computers had the first mouse driven "click" to navigate type GUI OS and Geoworks was an attempt at a PC version Last I knew, Geoworks was still around but not doing this type of program software development. Eisboch When I was about to buy my first pc, IBM and Apple had just come out with competing models...the Apple Macintosh I think it was called. Anyway, I looked at both, and decided against the Apple because the company was charging extra for add-on numeric keyboard and the numerics were part of the standard IBM keyboard. My first pc came with WordStar. I hated it. Fortunately, a few days later, I stopped by the computer store to whine, and the sales guy gave me something called Volkswriter. It was *the* word processor for computer newbies like me. Great little word processor. Had a clackety-clack daisywheel printer and a real slow Hayes modem. Now, as my crepitude approaches, I have pulled my PC desktop out of service to set it up as a server and for the moment I am using my Apple Mac as both a Mac and a PC. I need the PC mode because for a couple of the software packages I use, there are no Mac counterparts. One of these happens to be the software for my Garmin chart plotter. Most of the software suites, though, work about the same on Macs and PCs. Some of the Mac software is a bit more ergonomic than the PC software. As soon as I get around to it, I'll be setting up an Apple desktop machine.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You keep talking about your "server". Don't you mean back up computer? What software are you running on this so called server? I don't need a "back up computer." I have an HP MediaSmart Server, which runs MS's Windows Home Server software, does automatic backups, and runs a distribution system for movies, music, et cetera. I'm not running any software on my future server. I haven't set it up yet. I'm in the process of cleaning it up, doing a couple of hardware upgrades, et cetera. It still has a copy of VISTA on it. Why are you so interested in this? Why do you insist on posting about it? *This is at least the third time, WAFA.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Back to Circuit City's scam.... So, we went there to see just how good the "liquidation" prices were, man, we should liquidate everything we have, it would be quite profitable... We did a printout of the sale prices at Best Buy and went hunting for a big external drive for backups (server in Harry speak;). All of their prices were 10% off on most items, but the items were jacked up 30-40% from regular retail!!! A typical Western Digital 1 terrabyte external at Best buy was $129, at CC it was 10% off the low, low price of only $179, yikes! We saw the same pattern on cameras, shavers, etc... What a rip. We did get a couple of music CD's at 20% off, what seemed to be the going price.. Aerosmith, Heart, Steve Miller, and Foreigner were among the lucky albums that came home with us;) |
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"hk" wrote in message ... SmallBoats.com wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... BAR wrote: hk wrote: BAR wrote: hk wrote: Eisboch wrote: "hk" wrote in message m... If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a lot more than I paid for my iPod. Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get to the music on another card, well... You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need. I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of space. Eisboch My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it was only 20megs... Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running? Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than 20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks. Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box. What OS did you run on this Compupro '286? DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro. But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early version of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy. I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast. I remember a version of Flight Simulator than ran from a floppy on the pre-286 machines (forget the nomenclature). The "airplane" was nothing more than a cross and there really wasn't any terrain to speak of. BTW, the Laser Pal 286 computers I had (the first computers I had in the company) ran on DOS 4.1 and were loaded with the GeoWorks Ensemble and Prodigy using a 2400-baud modem. The GeoWorks Ensemble was a Windows-like program that included a wordprocesser, a spreadsheet and something else that I can't remember. Processor speed was either 8 or 12 MHz (no typo), depending on the position of a "turbo" button. It seems that 12 MHz was too fast for some of the software of the day. It had 640k (that's "k") of memory with an additional 384K of "extended" memory. Drives: 5 1/4-inch 1.2MB floppy, 3 1/2-inch 1.44MB floppy, 42MB hard With monitor, it was just under $2000. Eisboch Yeah, the first one we brought home was a Packard Bell, 20 mb hdd, 1.2mb-5 1/4" floppy, and a 12 baud modem.. Think it ran Dos 3.0 or something like that.. Can't remember the name of the system we had before that, it was some kind of game system based thing iirc.. ----------------- Gee...and I thought my 300 bps modem was slow. A 12 baud modem? Some network guru you are. I was an FE for an online data center while going to college. Based in San Francisco, we had leased lines as far as the Canadian Border and Salt Lake City. 110 baud. When they brought a 9600 Baud modem to the Fall Joint Computer show in SF in about 1996 we were all amazed you go transmit that fast and with an acoustic coupler. First PC I bought for a company I worked for was an 8 mhz PC and was about $4400 and had a 10 meg disk drive. First disk drives I worked on were 5 platter, 14" 5 mbyte units. |
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On Jan 18, 8:44*pm, hk wrote:
wrote: Back to Circuit City's scam.... So, we went there to see just how good the "liquidation" prices were, man, we should liquidate everything we have, it would be quite profitable... We did a printout of the sale prices at Best Buy and went hunting for a big external drive for backups (server in Harry speak;). Perhaps in your low-life uneducated crap mind, you think a hard drive = server, but when you project your idiocy, it just makes you look...dumber.. Pftttt... How's that hdd and ram install going in your "server rebuild"? |
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On Jan 18, 9:49*pm, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 8:44 pm, hk wrote: wrote: Back to Circuit City's scam.... So, we went there to see just how good the "liquidation" prices were, man, we should liquidate everything we have, it would be quite profitable... We did a printout of the sale prices at Best Buy and went hunting for a big external drive for backups (server in Harry speak;). Perhaps in your low-life uneducated crap mind, you think a hard drive = server, but when you project your idiocy, it just makes you look...dumber. Pftttt... How's that hdd and ram install going in your "server rebuild"? I don't have the problems you seem to have with computer hardware and software. There's not much to installing a stick of RAM or a SATA drive. You might be able to do it with a few hours of instruction. I'm sure two gigs of RAM is more than sufficient for a server project, don't you? Well, if I thought you could honor a wager I still have the reciepts and paperwork for several Point of purchace systems I set up in retail stores, Custom computers I built for architects with plotters etc, and several networks my wife and I set up for a fortune 500 company, transfering from tolken ring to ethernet, before you could buy systems right off the shelf. I don't know a lot about toy software for posting pictures of family kitty cats and walmart chairs, or trolling on usenet, but I sure know a lot more about hardware and networks, plotters, raid systems,,etc. than you do.. pffftttt.... |
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On Jan 18, 9:54*pm, wrote:
On Jan 18, 9:49*pm, hk wrote: wrote: On Jan 18, 8:44 pm, hk wrote: wrote: Back to Circuit City's scam.... So, we went there to see just how good the "liquidation" prices were, man, we should liquidate everything we have, it would be quite profitable... We did a printout of the sale prices at Best Buy and went hunting for a big external drive for backups (server in Harry speak;). Perhaps in your low-life uneducated crap mind, you think a hard drive = server, but when you project your idiocy, it just makes you look...dumber. Pftttt... How's that hdd and ram install going in your "server rebuild"? I don't have the problems you seem to have with computer hardware and software. There's not much to installing a stick of RAM or a SATA drive.. You might be able to do it with a few hours of instruction. I'm sure two gigs of RAM is more than sufficient for a server project, don't you? Well, if I thought you could honor a wager I still have the reciepts and paperwork for several Point of purchace systems I set up in retail stores, Custom computers I built for architects with plotters etc, and several networks my wife and I set up for a fortune 500 company, transfering from tolken ring to ethernet, before you could buy systems right off the shelf. I don't know a lot about toy software for posting pictures of family kitty cats and walmart chairs, or trolling on usenet, but I sure know a lot more about hardware and networks, plotters, raid systems,,etc. than you do.. pffftttt....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Oh, not to mention HTML, PhP, MySQL, Miva, SHTML, Apache, Linux, SSH, Pop........ etc. I have designed dual language, user programable websites in english and spanish, designed and built from scratch a survey program for one of the biggest personell survey systems on the east coast, taking them from paper to full automated electronic systems. My wife was one of the origional 20 or so folks who worked with the Miva developers and in the day, we helped another fortune 500 company move over from dedicated server for business, to hosting providers and wrote several manuals for them... We have in our employ a certified Windows CNE who runs systems on that side for us.. The list goes on... You don't even come close.. |
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On Jan 18, 10:03*pm, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 9:49 pm, hk wrote: wrote: On Jan 18, 8:44 pm, hk wrote: wrote: Back to Circuit City's scam.... So, we went there to see just how good the "liquidation" prices were, man, we should liquidate everything we have, it would be quite profitable... We did a printout of the sale prices at Best Buy and went hunting for a big external drive for backups (server in Harry speak;). Perhaps in your low-life uneducated crap mind, you think a hard drive = server, but when you project your idiocy, it just makes you look...dumber. Pftttt... How's that hdd and ram install going in your "server rebuild"? I don't have the problems you seem to have with computer hardware and software. There's not much to installing a stick of RAM or a SATA drive. You might be able to do it with a few hours of instruction. I'm sure two gigs of RAM is more than sufficient for a server project, don't you? Well, if I thought you could honor a wager I still have the reciepts and paperwork for several Point of purchace systems I set up in retail stores, Custom computers I built for architects with plotters etc, and several networks my wife and I set up for a fortune 500 company, transfering from tolken ring to ethernet, before you could buy systems right off the shelf. I don't know a lot about toy software for posting pictures of family kitty cats and walmart chairs, or trolling on usenet, but I sure know a lot more about hardware and networks, plotters, raid systems,,etc. than you do.. pffftttt.... There's no evidence in this usenet group of your computer prowess. Was that tolken ring, token ring or tolkien ring?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Sure there is, we support all of the systems we provide on our servers and have written most of the help manuals ourselves... We answer the phone or email when a customer has a question about any of them... No posers here, just wouldn't cut it, check it out... http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) snerk |
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On Jan 18, 10:16*pm, hk wrote:
http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) *snerk Not likely: *"Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. |
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On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) snerk Not likely: "Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite. |
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On Jan 18, 10:40*pm, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) *snerk Not likely: *"Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I own the business I don't do all the work. But I still know more about networking than you, talk to me when you are ready to make a wager, with real money. Until then, stop wasting my time, you are still a poser... |
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On Jan 18, 10:40 pm, hk wrote: wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) snerk Not likely: "Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I own the business I don't do all the work. But I still know more about networking than you, talk to me when you are ready to make a wager, with real money. Until then, stop wasting my time, you are still a poser... Unlike you, I don't pretend to be a networking expert or someone who "owns" a networking business. I know enough about networking to do what I want to do with it. But there is no evidence you know anything about networking or computers. |
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On Jan 18, 11:01*pm, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 10:40 pm, hk wrote: wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) *snerk Not likely: *"Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day.... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I own the business I don't do all the work. But I still know more about networking than you, talk to me when you are ready to make a wager, with real money. Until then, stop wasting my time, you are still a poser... Unlike you, I don't pretend to be a networking expert or someone who "owns" a networking business. I know enough about networking to do what I want to do with it. But there is no evidence you know anything about networking or computers.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Talk to me when you are willing to make a wager, with real money.... |
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On Jan 18, 11:01*pm, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 10:40 pm, hk wrote: wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) *snerk Not likely: *"Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day.... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I own the business I don't do all the work. But I still know more about networking than you, talk to me when you are ready to make a wager, with real money. Until then, stop wasting my time, you are still a poser... Unlike you, I don't pretend to be a networking expert or someone who "owns" a networking business. I know enough about networking to do what I want to do with it. But there is no evidence you know anything about networking or computers.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - So, you wanna' make a bet? |
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:31:45 -0800 (PST),
wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16*pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) *snerk Not likely: *"Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. So much for your "software testing" abilities, eh? Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. Well, I agree that you have a lot more experience running in circles. The question is, what will you do with your tail when you catch it? |
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:40:11 -0500, hk wrote:
wrote: On Jan 18, 10:16 pm, hk wrote: http://www.idesigns.net A real business, no Lobsta' boats or cut and paste here;) snerk Not likely: "Scott is a marketing advisor and also handles the testing of new features and software, though a boat builder by trade. In his spare time he can be found designing, building, and testing his boats." God help your "clients." Tried your helpdesk and knowledge base, got this: Welcome to helpdesk.idesigns.net This site is under Re-Construction Please come back again soon! Who designed your webpage? A kid with a box of crayolas? Pfffttt. we missed on link, but of course there is a hundred other links on the site to the same place.. Anyway, go back to your plug and play ram installation. I still would run circles around you any day... Now go back to your plug and play ram installation.. I got that same error message on more than one link. And there is still no evidence here you know squat about computers or networking. The sorts of problems and questions you have brought up here indicate the opposite. At best, his wife is a CNA, which is barely an entry level certifcation. That cert appears to be at least 10 years old, so it's worthless anyway. Scotty is a hanger-on. The business would be doing just as well without him. |
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wrote in message ... On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:04:07 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: First disk drives I worked on were 5 platter, 14" 5 mbyte units. 2311s? They were the 360 version of the 1401 era 1311. Same basic pack but double density, I was an NCR guy. Our own drives. We replaced a 360 ,mod 20 at Macys with an NCR 315 system. The Mod 20 had paper tape and card input and printer output. No mag files. Just an expensive Tab system. |
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wrote in message ... On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:26:26 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:03:40 -0800, "Calif Bill" wrote: I was an NCR guy. Our own drives. We replaced a 360 ,mod 20 at Macys with an NCR 315 system. The Mod 20 had paper tape and card input and printer output. No mag files. Just an expensive Tab system. Were they hydraulic too or had you migrated to the voice coil system by then? I know some companies just rebadged our drives (Control Data springs to mind) If you were around mod 20s you know what MFCM really means ;-) They were voice coils. We did not go hydraulic for a couple years. We actually designed one of first disk drives. Our idiot leaders went into a joint venture with CDC and they took the disk drives and we took printers. Bad deal from all the FE's view point. We saw disk drives to be the better product line in the future. Later when I left NCR, I went to Itel and worked on the channel diagnostics for our Siemens clone of the IBM 3800 printer. We used a DEC 11/34 as the channel controller to the printer and since we had to run IBM diags cleanly, I disassembled the code and found the hidden channel codes that were sent and what was expected back. Still probably the most fun job I had. Great people in the team and great company to work for. We connected to a 33xx clone from Hitachi. IBM started with hydraulics in disk drives(305 through 2314) and in high speed printers (1403), then changed to the voice coil disk drive (33xx and up) and servo or stepper motor printers (3211 and beyond). I spent a lot of time with 3800s in the 80s. We had 35 of them in my office and over 70 in the DC metro area. It was pretty much where I spent most of my time. By then CPUs were not really breaking and we didn't have any check sorters. Back in the days when CPUs broke I had a chance to work with Itel guys. I worked midnights and nobody was around to enforce the rules about not assisting if a 3d party was present. I remember one of those "6 vendor" nights tracking down a channel bug with the Itel guy stepping microcode on his AS/5 and me shadowing him on my 3158. If there was ever a chance for them to say they didn't steal our stuff it went away that night. We were just calling out stop words back and forth with each of us alternating which one we looked up. The I/O vendors were acknowledging they got that far. We ended up nailing the T-bar switch guy to the wall. My move to Florida changed all of that. We had the C&S data center here in Ft Myers. 3800s and 3890s. This was a resident territory so we worked on everything here and I really had the most fun with point of sale stuff. Wendys ended up rolling out their new PC based registers in Naples because they liked our operation (I had also worked on the Burger King rollout). We invented the hot swap procedure for printers on the old 3684 systems in my shop and had the only field rebuild program in the country. A 3684 was my first woodie, before I started making wood case PCs. We had a clone of a Wendy's store in our shop to test things. (2 registers). I even got to meet Dave on rollout night. Wendys gave me one of the new registers to play with in the shop. \ Fun days. NCR paid for part of my university tuition with a tuition refund plan. About 50% total as they did not cover books. And state university tuition was between $125 and $250 a semester. I worked on the NCR 315 and Century systems and the 420 Optical scanner. That scanner pretty much paid for my house. After my degree, I was the liaison to Montgomery Wards in the west. Still took care of the scanner as there were 2 of in the US who could really fix the machine. Me and a guy in Chicago. But I decided where the problems were with the POS systems. Store, Data Center, or in between. Finally got fed up with the service manager in San Francisco with his BS and took a huge raise to go to Itel. Then the H systems killed us and the residual value of our leases and they laid off 2300 of us. Went to several startups over the years. Screwed up in Feb 1980. Took a job in designing disk drive controllers for DEC systems supplier company and turned down the same salary 1.5 hours later for Rolm Corp. As I had already agreed to the first job. I figure that 1.5 hours cost me $100,000,000. Neighbor went from Rolm to another startup in the comm industry and then to Cisco as the VP. He cashed out $240 million after taxes. |
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