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Time to retire the name.
I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back
in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE |
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"Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE I am glad my latest post (ping: Eisboch) brought you to your senses................although it is a pretty cool and unique handle. ;-) |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... From now on, your new name is J. Alfred Prufrock. I like it! I like it! J. Alfred Prufrock. Sorta has a ring to it, ya' know? Hmmmm..... Think old T.S. would be ****ed? RCE |
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Harry Krause wrote:
Eisboch wrote: From now on I shall be known as ...... From now on, your new name is J. Alfred Prufrock. Suitable for an East Coaster. -- Skipper |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Unlikely. The former Eisboch keeps the bottoms of his trousers rolled. Let us go then , you and I , while the ethernet is spread across the sky . Like a patient etherised upon a table. T1, ISDN - 56Megabits per second - the slow yellow vapor of twisted duplex cable that connect you from I and me and this. Let's chat a while about Marx - Karl or Groucho? RCE |
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"Skipper" wrote in message ... Harry Krause wrote: Eisboch wrote: From now on I shall be known as ...... From now on, your new name is J. Alfred Prufrock. Suitable for an East Coaster. -- Skipper Are you ... Skipper A or Skipper B ? whomever you may be RCE |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... RCE wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Unlikely. The former Eisboch keeps the bottoms of his trousers rolled. Let us go then , you and I , while the ethernet is spread across the sky . Like a patient etherised upon a table. T1, ISDN - 56Megabits per second - the slow yellow vapor of twisted duplex cable that connect you from I and me and this. Let's chat a while about Marx - Karl or Groucho? RCE Please...this is the anti-literate rec.boats newsgroup. You are likely to start a fight...go eat a peach. Damn. Just when it was getting good. RCE |
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Harry Krause wrote:
Please...this is the anti-literate rec.boats newsgroup. You are likely to start a fight...go eat a peach. I didn't know you were an Allman Brothers fan. DSK |
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"DSK" wrote in message ... Harry Krause wrote: Please...this is the anti-literate rec.boats newsgroup. You are likely to start a fight...go eat a peach. I didn't know you were an Allman Brothers fan. DSK Harry's former handle was "Hoochie Coochie Man" RCE |
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"Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! |
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"Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE |
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RCE wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Unlikely. The former Eisboch keeps the bottoms of his trousers rolled. Let us go then , you and I , while the ethernet is spread across the sky . Like a patient etherised upon a table. T1, ISDN - 56Megabits per second - the slow yellow vapor of twisted duplex cable that connect you from I and me and this. Let's chat a while about Marx - Karl or Groucho? RCE RCE, Who the hell are you anyway? -- Reggie ************************************************** ************* That's my story and I am sticking to it. ************************************************** ************* |
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:32:21 GMT, "Bryan" wrote: i built an altair 8080 which, well wasn't the neatest thing on the block, but it worked - i did some rudimentary switching with the thing. then i went to work for small time mini-computer company and had my run of minis until about '79 when i bought an apple ii. then an apple iie. then a vic 20, commodore 64 and into the pc world from there building my own until five years ago when it became a silly quest to roll your own when you could buy for less than you could build. Had Commodore 64 for a while - replaced my first computer - A Texas Instruments TI-1 or something like that. It didn't have a disk drive - had 16k of memory - and you saved your programs to a cheap Radio Shack reel to reel tape recorder. In our business, we built a fully automatic vapor deposition coating system using a Tandy Trash 80. I still shutter when I think about it. Eisb ..... ooops ... RCE |
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:32:21 GMT, "Bryan" wrote: "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! oh crap, here we go. i built an altair 8080 which, well wasn't the neatest thing on the block, but it worked - i did some rudimentary switching with the thing. then i went to work for small time mini-computer company and had my run of minis until about '79 when i bought an apple ii. then an apple iie. then a vic 20, commodore 64 and into the pc world from there building my own until five years ago when it became a silly quest to roll your own when you could buy for less than you could build. What an earful of familiar names. We've come a long way. Or have we? |
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"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message . .. RCE wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Unlikely. The former Eisboch keeps the bottoms of his trousers rolled. Let us go then , you and I , while the ethernet is spread across the sky . Like a patient etherised upon a table. T1, ISDN - 56Megabits per second - the slow yellow vapor of twisted duplex cable that connect you from I and me and this. Let's chat a while about Marx - Karl or Groucho? RCE RCE, Who the hell are you anyway? -- Reggie Just a figment of your cyber imagination, 'tis all .... RCE |
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:03:58 -0500, "RCE" wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... From now on, your new name is J. Alfred Prufrock. I like it! I like it! J. Alfred Prufrock. Sorta has a ring to it, ya' know? Hmmmm..... Think old T.S. would be ****ed? RCE Is that pronounced AR'- see, or Ar-SEE' ? -- 'Til next time, John H ****************************************** ***** Have a Spectacular Day! ***** ****************************************** |
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JohnH wrote:
RCE Is that pronounced AR'- see, or Ar-SEE' ? Arse, see...as in horses. -- Skipper |
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:46:26 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:
so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. I'll be darned, always thought it was a play on "ice box" for some reason. You certainly brought back a few memories with mention of Prodigy and MIDI. IBM/Prodigy squandered almost as many opportunities as DEC did with AltaVista. And then there is always Compuserve of course, who thought they knew it all until they didn't. I had a Compuserve account back in the early 80s when 300 baud was high speed and acoustical couplers were high tech. :-) What was the name of the network utility that you could use to connect with Compuserve? That was my first inkling that some sort of universal connectivity might someday be possible. |
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:38:57 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote: you may now call me galactic overlord - his imperial highness teafran. Uhhhhhh, no. |
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Had Commodore 64 for a while - replaced my first computer - A Texas Instruments TI-1 or something like that. It didn't have a disk drive - had 16k of memory - and you saved your programs to a cheap Radio Shack reel to reel tape recorder. Started with a VIC 20, then upgraded to a C-64 the day they hit town. Hot stuff. But not nearly as hot as the next trade up to an Amiga. The Amiga was way ahead of its time, but unfortunately was a Commodore product and therefore doomed in the marketplace. Commodore, from a marketing perspective, had the unfailing ability to screw up a one car funeral. Finally switched to a 386 PC running Windows 3.0 in 1990 I think. |
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:46:26 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote: so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. I'll be darned, always thought it was a play on "ice box" for some reason. You certainly brought back a few memories with mention of Prodigy and MIDI. IBM/Prodigy squandered almost as many opportunities as DEC did with AltaVista. And then there is always Compuserve of course, who thought they knew it all until they didn't. I had a Compuserve account back in the early 80s when 300 baud was high speed and acoustical couplers were high tech. :-) What was the name of the network utility that you could use to connect with Compuserve? That was my first inkling that some sort of universal connectivity might someday be possible. I think I still have my 300 BAUD modem somewhere in my collection of "No, I will not throw it away. It's still useful! stuff. I went hog wild when I upgraded (that word didn't exist at the time) to my US Robotics 2400 BAUD modem! When I did that I was able to view gifs; one a day. |
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Eisboch wrote:
From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Then I should be "MacTarnahan" |
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"RCE" wrote in message ... "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE I started out on the Internet with a DEC PDP. Probably an 11/05 but maybe an 11/34. Still have a great spicy peanut noodle recipe printed on dot matrix printer. When it was a text only world. Except for ascii art. |
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"RCE" wrote in message ... "Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:32:21 GMT, "Bryan" wrote: i built an altair 8080 which, well wasn't the neatest thing on the block, but it worked - i did some rudimentary switching with the thing. then i went to work for small time mini-computer company and had my run of minis until about '79 when i bought an apple ii. then an apple iie. then a vic 20, commodore 64 and into the pc world from there building my own until five years ago when it became a silly quest to roll your own when you could buy for less than you could build. Had Commodore 64 for a while - replaced my first computer - A Texas Instruments TI-1 or something like that. It didn't have a disk drive - had 16k of memory - and you saved your programs to a cheap Radio Shack reel to reel tape recorder. In our business, we built a fully automatic vapor deposition coating system using a Tandy Trash 80. I still shutter when I think about it. Eisb ..... ooops ... RCE TI-99. I think it is still in the gargage. Had the best game for kids. Alpiner. My daughters loved that game. Tandy had one of the best early PC's. Had the much superior Motorola 68000 and ran SCO Unix. I think it was the 16B. We used it to develop a multi computer hook up disk subsystem with 8 megabytes of Cache. When 8 Megs cost a couple of thousand dollars. |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... "RCE" wrote in message ... "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE I started out on the Internet with a DEC PDP. Probably an 11/05 but maybe an 11/34. Still have a great spicy peanut noodle recipe printed on dot matrix printer. When it was a text only world. Except for ascii art. I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! |
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"Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... "RCE" wrote in message ... "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE I started out on the Internet with a DEC PDP. Probably an 11/05 but maybe an 11/34. Still have a great spicy peanut noodle recipe printed on dot matrix printer. When it was a text only world. Except for ascii art. I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! You want some. I still got a couple of thousand. We use them for note cards by the phone. No holes in them. |
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... What was the name of the network utility that you could use to connect with Compuserve? That was my first inkling that some sort of universal connectivity might someday be possible. Oh, man ... I have a hazy remembrance of that, but forget the name or details. It was some bizarre way to get your computer hooked up ... It will come to me. RCE |
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"RG" wrote in message news:U_eCf.1661$MJ.1652@fed1read07... Had Commodore 64 for a while - replaced my first computer - A Texas Instruments TI-1 or something like that. It didn't have a disk drive - had 16k of memory - and you saved your programs to a cheap Radio Shack reel to reel tape recorder. Started with a VIC 20, then upgraded to a C-64 the day they hit town. Hot stuff. But not nearly as hot as the next trade up to an Amiga. The Amiga was way ahead of its time, but unfortunately was a Commodore product and therefore doomed in the marketplace. Commodore, from a marketing perspective, had the unfailing ability to screw up a one car funeral. Finally switched to a 386 PC running Windows 3.0 in 1990 I think. Believe it or not, I was still using Windows 3.0 up to about 1997 when it finally just wouldn't run any of the newer software. I also had (should have kept) the original Flight Simulator program. It came on a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk and the "airplane" was represented by a simple cursor cross. All the land representations were crude stick drawings. I spent hours "flying" to exotic places like Derby, Kansas. The infamous 386 chip really burned a lot of people. The 486 was just about ready for release but they dumped the 386 on the market just to keep up with Apple. RCE |
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"-rick-" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Then I should be "MacTarnahan" All these beers to try and so little time... Actually, I've always enjoyed the stronger brews but, alas, the beer drinking days are just about over. Love the taste, but it no longer loves me. Never acquired a taste for the hard stuff. Looks like it's now an occasional wine. Starbucks Coffee Liquor with milk and ice ain't bad. RCE |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... TI-99. I think it is still in the gargage. Had the best game for kids. Alpiner. My daughters loved that game. Tandy had one of the best early PC's. Had the much superior Motorola 68000 and ran SCO Unix. I think it was the 16B. We used it to develop a multi computer hook up disk subsystem with 8 megabytes of Cache. When 8 Megs cost a couple of thousand dollars. That was it - a TI-99. Best thing about it was that you had to learn how to write stuff in Basic, although I think it was called "TI-Basic". I remember doing the examples from the manual - the little stick figure that walked around and the program that was supposed to emit ultrasonic frequencies to keep mice away. I kept looking at the dog to see if he noticed. He didn't. My oldest son (now 32 yo) was about 4 or 5 at the time. He decided to drop a dime into one of the air vents on the TI-99 and it went up in smoke. RCE |
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Eisboch wrote: I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Man...GeoWorks.....THAT brings back memories! It was the first graphical interface I used. I was anti-windows, because anything graphical like that slowed my computer down too much. Besides that, most programs at that time were still DOS based. Oh, I had prodigy, also! I remember a guy I was going to school with bought a 386 that ran at 20Mhz. I thought he was the cat's ass with that thing... I was SO jealous! Oh, and remember, to get any real speed out of them, you had to add a math coprocesser!! |
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Skipper wrote: Harry Krause wrote: Eisboch wrote: From now on I shall be known as ...... From now on, your new name is J. Alfred Prufrock. Suitable for an East Coaster. -- Skipper Skipper, which coast are YOU on? |
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:07:15 GMT, "Bryan"
wrote: I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! Punched cards were hi tech. I started on punched paper tape with no real editing capability. We had this huge clunky machine called a Burroughs Flexowriter with a keyboard which punched the tape. The computer was a Control Data 160A, as big as a desk, 4K of memory and it cost about $80K circa 1967. To compile and run a Fortran program it was first necessary to read the tape with the boot loader, then the tape with the Fortran compiler, followed by the source code tape (twice), and finally it would spit out a new tape with the object code on it. At that point you were ready to re-boot and test your program. |
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:10:41 -0500, "RCE" wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message .. . What was the name of the network utility that you could use to connect with Compuserve? That was my first inkling that some sort of universal connectivity might someday be possible. Oh, man ... I have a hazy remembrance of that, but forget the name or details. It was some bizarre way to get your computer hooked up ... It will come to me. I'm kind of remembering that it was something like "Telnet" although that may not be exactly correct. If you didn't have a Compuserve local number, you could dial into their network and then log onto a pass through connection to somewhere else. It was very hi tech in the late 70s, early 80s. |
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Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote: wrote: Skipper wrote: Harry Krause wrote: Eisboch wrote: From now on I shall be known as ...... From now on, your new name is J. Alfred Prufrock. Suitable for an East Coaster. -- Skipper Skipper, which coast are YOU on? Depends on which side of the two lane blacktop he happens to be staggering along. Left ditch...right ditch..? That farm runoff can be dangerous. My guess is that Snipper is still dragging that old Bayliner around out there. Behind his old John Deere tractor? |
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"Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:07:15 GMT, "Bryan" wrote: I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! Punched cards were hi tech. I started on punched paper tape with no real editing capability. We had this huge clunky machine called a Burroughs Flexowriter with a keyboard which punched the tape. The computer was a Control Data 160A, as big as a desk, 4K of memory and it cost about $80K circa 1967. To compile and run a Fortran program it was first necessary to read the tape with the boot loader, then the tape with the Fortran compiler, followed by the source code tape (twice), and finally it would spit out a new tape with the object code on it. At that point you were ready to re-boot and test your program. I remember punched tape. In 1973, I worked for a land company that purchased a computer to keep track of the accounting of property owner's installment contracts. The computer was made by Singer, of all things. The program was loaded via punched tape,and the individual property owner records were on large heavy paper ledger cards. Each ledger card had a magnetic strip along the long side, retaining the data for each account. Account activity was also printed on the ledger card by a dot matrix printer. The same device read and wrote the mag strip and printed the activity on the card. Presumably the individual account data needed to be stored on the ledger cards because the computer itself didn't have the storage capability to do it. At the same time I was taking a Fortran class in college. I would type code into a teletype machine and then sometime later go to the computer center to retrieve a stack of punch cards. The punch cards would then be loaded into the computer and the program compiled and run and a printout delivered. Only to find a typo on line 32. Arrrgh! Start over. |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message k.net... "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... "RCE" wrote in message ... "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE I started out on the Internet with a DEC PDP. Probably an 11/05 but maybe an 11/34. Still have a great spicy peanut noodle recipe printed on dot matrix printer. When it was a text only world. Except for ascii art. I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! You want some. I still got a couple of thousand. We use them for note cards by the phone. No holes in them. Thanks, Bill. I think I'll pass on the generous offer. My wife is an RN so our home is filled with pads of paper from pharmaceutical vendors. |
Time to retire the name.
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Time to retire the name.
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