Re: [Flexradio] FW: A bit of light entertainment

[Bob . Cowdery]

Several tens of messages and a few bottles of wine later I have no idea what's going on but everyone have a happy new year and I might even dig out my Atari from the loft. If I can find the loft that is!   Bob   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 December 2005 16:36 To: Flex Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] FW: A bit of light entertainment   I hooked it up to my Televideo 950 terminal, 10 meg HD, and the twin Pertec 1.2 Meg drives and it booted right away, I said my goodbye and took it all to the dump, hardware, software, books. In absolute mint condition, that use to be my baby until 1984. I have regretted it, not just for the money but the memories of the fun I had with that computer. Different days, with very efficient software, the OS would boot in less than .5 seconds once the HD spins up. At 08:58 AM 12/30/2005, you wrote: AND YOU SOLD IT OR LOST IT? You shall pay a hefty fine of 25 geek points and serve a sentence of 42 years of regret and you just slid off the geekdar. Bob That said,  we have drifted (yes, with my help) hopelessly off topic and I suspect we are boring a lot of Flex Radio types. KD5NWA wrote: That might be worth a lot of money to a museum, I know a friend that sold a Altair for $40,000. I could kick myself, I owned Altair #19, personally delivered and signed inside by Ed Roberts, I use to know him well. Funny thing his dad use to look just like Jimmy Carter the President. Young people can be quite dense, I got to know him, and often I would give him rides or pick him up from the Miami airport when he was flying to Albuquerque, It took me a while to figure out that he was the President of MITS he never mentioned it. One time I complained that my kit for the Altair had not arrived, when he came back from New Mexico he carried Altair #19 with him and gave it to me, he told me he knew a couple of people at Altair. Being dumb as a stump when it came to personal matters, I still didn't get it, until one day I noticed a stack of mail at his office addressed to Ed Roberts president of MITS, duh, the light bulb finally lit up. My Altair was in mint condition, with every board they ever made, and fully functional, my wife nagged until I threw it away, four month later, my friend called me and wanted to know about my Altair, a Museum in Japan was interested. When I found how much my friend got for his (which wasn't functional) I very calmly told her how much making a little extra room in the garage had cost, she was unusually quiet for several days. -- AMSAT VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP/AMQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR Wrk Grp Chairman Laziness is the number one inspiration for ingenuity.  Guilty as charged! Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... *** Confidentiality Notice *** Proprietary/Confidential Information belonging to CGI Group Inc. and its affiliates may be contained in this message. If you are not a recipient indicated or intended in this message (or responsible for delivery of this message to such person), or you think for any reason that this message may have been addressed to you in error, you may not use or copy or deliver this message to anyone else.  In such case, you should destroy this message and are asked to notify the sender by reply email.