Digest Number 281
2 messages · 2005-07-03 → 2005-07-03 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: Scott A. Rossell, James the Animal Tamer
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1. RE: [ts2068] Digest Number 281
Scott A. Rossell · Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:01:
Tamer! "Speculum"? Come on now. That's hardly appropriate verbiage for
this forum I think.
And with that, I bid you all farewell. My psychotherapy is complete and I
no longer crave the legacy world of 80's 8-bit computing. Two decades have
passed (sadly) and I find the computing world irrevocably bereft of any
style and innovation. And with Tamer's last comment I question some of it's
audience as well. I will accept the ambiguous, chaotic world of the
Wintel/Mactel/Lintel world and do my best to remember a more intelligent and
challenging time of constrained memory and brilliantly conceived proprietary
peripherals.
And as an American, I also relinquish my I.T. career of over 20 years to the
cow-bowing dot noggin's in India who low-balled me in a bidding war for my
own job when I didn't even know they could try for it. Funny that; U.S.
immigration laws won't allow them to come here and take my job, but they can
take it from India without a fight. I welcome the fall of the U.S. economy.
We deserve it for being so damn stupid.
Well, enough of that. Best wishes to you all. May you find that ray of
light that forever casts a smile on your face. Except you Tamer! How dare
you defile the name of Spectrum?
-Scott A. Rossell
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2. Re: Digest Number 281
James the Animal Tamer · Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:39
>> Except you Tamer! How dare
> you defile the name of Spectrum?
It was easy! I was trying to type a program from a book into the
computer. I found it very difficult to get anything into the computer
(because it's not designed for people who are accustomed to typing).
When I ran it, it didn't work, although the listing on the computer
looked to match the book.
Some cursing was appropriate for the situation. Still is. Like Luke's
decision to write up Mary's genealogy without mentioning Mary as the
final product, Sinclair's decision to make it impossible to type
programs on Sinclair computers by hitting the letters on the keyboard
was an uninspired decision.