Malcom,
Mm-hmm. Only recently did I find there's a secret passage ("... you are in a
maze of tiny windy passages :-) :-( into the Darwin-unix-guts of the Macs,
which comes up even when (as in the current case of the 400 Bronze Lombard) you
can't even complete Safe Booting OS 10.x ... so maybe I can poke around for the
right thing w/o destroying the system--did I say I know what I'm doing?--and
fix it's severe boot problem.
Now: "Who knows what secret passages & shadows lie in the hearts of QLs".
Seeing all the different systems, including OSs, is part of the fun. But it did
my heart good a few nights ago to see the familiar "three" screen pic for the
first time in a year or two, even if it was on a monochrome monitor full of
jiggle from the 50/60 problem. Now if I can get a decent monitor (possibly get
fixed the Acorn Tony tried to resurrect at QL NA) and a (fully) working set of
floppy drives. It would "warm the cockles of my little black heart" to be able
to do large shares of what I currently take PCs and Macs to do on that Little
Black Box.
Doug 37830 USA
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>From: Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Feb 12, 2007 2:46 PM
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>Subject: Re: [ql-users] A QL Trip Down Memory Lane
>
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>, extdgl42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>>As an example of variety, I'll mention my confuser (computer :-) room:
>>Three Macs (two of them laptops), two PCs (One 733, the other 133[!], a
>>custom build long ago), and several QLs (many still in styrofoam boxes;
>>one somewhat working). Yes, internet connectivity for four of the
>>above. All as old as about 1999 or farther back, with OS's as old as
>>98SE or QDOS, or as recent as SuSE 10.x and Mac OS 10.3 . The Macs e.g.
>>have been an education.
>>
>>"My life? What life? I have no life. O insuportable! O heavy
>>hour!"--Apologies to Messrs. Bill the Bard and Othello.
>>
>>Actually, I _do_ have a life outside computers.
>>
>>Doug L. 37830
>
>Hi Doug,
>
>You are right, I have lots of different computers around too, mostly
>picked up for little actual cost.
>
>It is the activity that is the fun, not the OS as such.
>
>The so called "old" computers let you get at them, rather than the "new"
>computers which just give you ready made applications.
>
>--
>Malcolm Cadman
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