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2011-04-15 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Well NOW I'm going to click itLOL -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: Friday Diversion... Oops... #49 and #59 NSFW... Sorry... -Original Message- From:

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2011-04-15 Thread David Mazzaccaro
#59 reminds me of Willie T's - a bar in Key West. Thanks, now I'm thirsty! -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: Friday Diversion... Oops... #49 and #59 NSFW... Sorry...

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2010-07-17 Thread Maglinger, Paul
I had one of those! From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, with the purchase of 3 tubes

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2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Man, I remember a bunch of these… I remember using and even owning several of those products, let alone the ads. My first IBM compatible was a Tandy 1000 SL. Neat machine for the day. Had MS-DOS in ROM so you

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Man, I remember a bunch of these... I remember using and even owning several of those products, let alone the ads

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2010-07-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Remember installing 5 and 10 MB HDD's and deciding whether to format them MFM or RLL to squeeze a little extra space out of them. And the obligatory, Wow! That's like 40 floppies! I'll *never* run out of disk

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2010-07-16 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
by an attachment on the teletype terminal. The slide rule was faster. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes

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2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, with the purchase of 3 tubes of toothpaste- 1. Sinclair/Timex Z-81 2. 8 Kb (or was it 16?)memory expansion 3. Cassettes for a spread sheet, a database, and a backgammon game The Sinclair had its OS and BASIC on ROM. It also

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Hold my screwdriver, I have to use 2 hands to lift this full-height 5-1/4 drive in to the bay. -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion On Fri, Jul 16, 2010

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
And to think they built the SR-71 with those things. -sc -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion I had an abacus when I was a kid. When I got to high

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
to keep it from wobbling out of the connector tho' -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away

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2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mid-year 1983, a St Louis-based grocery store chain was giving away, with the purchase of 3 tubes of toothpaste- 1. Sinclair/Timex Z-81 2. 8 Kb

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Especially when typing in those lo...@ss program listings from the magazine?? -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion I did invest $2 and a stamp to get a KB

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2010-07-16 Thread Don Guyer
Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion And to think they built the SR-71 with those things. -sc -Original

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2010-07-16 Thread Don Guyer
- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Hehe... I liked me some Beach Head, Bards Tale, Zaxxon, etc... on my C64 -sc -Original Message- From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu

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2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion OMG! I was just watching this game I used to play for hours on the C64 (from cassette tape mind you): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QVl5Z9gL0 Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox

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2010-07-16 Thread Jacob
of Ram. $850. It did not have a cd rom and I needed one. I saved and saved for months to purchase a 2x CD-Rom.. For $450. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mid-year

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
on games were easily defeated... -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Mmmm...Bard's Tale. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote

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2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 11:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Friday diversion Mmmm...Bard's Tale. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Hehe... I liked me some Beach Head, Bards Tale, Zaxxon, etc... on my C64 -sc

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Never played any of the Ultima or Zork series. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion None of the Ultimas? I had most of those games, and also M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Man... Kay Bee toys and Service Merchandise (a Catalog Showroom!) bring back memories all in themselves. -sc From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion My first computer.. the ADAM

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2010-07-16 Thread Jacob
Actually, I preferred Best Products over Service Merchandise. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Man. Kay Bee toys and Service Merchandise (a Catalog Showroom!) bring back

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2010-07-16 Thread Steve Ens
*To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Friday diversion Mmmm...Bard's Tale. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Hehe... I liked me some Beach Head, Bards Tale, Zaxxon, etc... on my C64 -sc -Original Message- From: Don Guyer

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2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan Link
System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Friday diversion Man… Kay Bee toys and Service Merchandise (a “Catalog Showroom”!) bring back memories all in themselves….. -sc *From:* Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 11:46 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject

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2010-07-16 Thread Scot Parsons
Before they closed and Service Merchandise moved in, we had a store called Sam Solomon. I think Service Merchandise bought them out when they went under. From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion

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2010-07-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
: RE: Friday diversion Exactly. Thee (membrane!) keyboard had standard characters, or either the BASIC function names, or graphic shapes. The latter 2 could be invoked by some keypress-combination with a function key or some such. The expansion pack I had was 16KB. You had to supply your own

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2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
compared to my home TRS80 COCO2 at the time J Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Exactly

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
-content/uploads/2009/09/ts1000.JPG -sc From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Was this the expansion pack that was roughly the size of a VHS tape, larger then the Sinclair itself

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2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
[mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion I had an abacus when I was a kid. When I got to high school, I got a slide rule. We had a computer science class featuring a teletype terminal with an acoustic modem

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2010-07-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Yup. -sc From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Looking through the magazines, I remember seeing such large modules. However, the Sinclair version was pretty small

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2010-07-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Subject: Re: Friday diversion On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Man, I remember a bunch of these... I remember using and even owning several of those products, let alone the ads. My first IBM compatible was a Tandy 1000 SL. Neat machine

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2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Never played any of the Ultima or Zork series. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l

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2010-07-16 Thread Mayo, Bill
: RE: Friday diversion My first computer.. the ADAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam Bought it at a Kay Bee toy store. Don't remember the price, but I worked all summer with my dad to pay it off! My first computer I purchased was from Service Merchandise. It was a 286, with 25 MB

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2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
mechanisms on games were easily defeated… -sc *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 11:37 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Friday diversion Mmmm...Bard's Tale. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes

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2010-07-16 Thread Jay Dale
OMG I had one of those too! Jay From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Here it is attached to the computer... This looks like exactly what I had, sans the spiffy audio cassette drive I

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2010-07-16 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Konami... but it was B, A, I thought? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right

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2010-07-16 Thread Paul Gordon
it now. Paul G. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: 16 July 2010 17:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Looking through the magazines, I remember seeing such large modules. However, the Sinclair version was pretty small - about

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2010-07-16 Thread RichardMcClary
] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Here it is attached to the computer... This looks like exactly what I had, sans the spiffy audio cassette drive I had to supply. I built mine from a kit. You can see the BASIC keywords

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2010-07-16 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
No, those weren't invented yet. But the snakes still walked upright... -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Did you have to ride a dinosaur to school when a kid

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2010-07-16 Thread Cameron Cooper
16, 2010 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion No, those weren't invented yet. But the snakes still walked upright... -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

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2010-07-16 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
, July 16, 2010 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion No, those weren't invented yet. But the snakes still walked upright... -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

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2010-07-16 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Dang I'm old. I remember practically all of these !!! Warm regards, Stu From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Friday diversion Man, I remember a bunch of these...

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2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 1:13 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Friday diversion Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Select, Start - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: I

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2010-07-16 Thread Jacob
Same here. B, A From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion Konami. but it was B, A, I thought? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107

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2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.commailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Select, Start - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Steve Ens stevey

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2010-07-16 Thread Joseph Heaton
Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion I've seen references to both. Was the one I listed for two players? - Sean On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.commailto:p...@psnet.com wrote

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2010-07-16 Thread Sean Martin
, Start for two players. Interestingly, typing upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart into a Palm Pre puts it into developer mode. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday diversion I've seen references

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2010-07-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
It's essentially the major step in jail-breaking it. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Friday diversion And just what, pray tell, did this secret code give you? Crawford, Scott