I think I still have all 11 5-1/4 in floppies holding my first attempt to install Linux.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:15 PM Ken Koster <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, September 21, 2018 2:13:37 PM PDT Tom Russo wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:11:37PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote: > > > > Some old and really bad nightmares still begin with, "It's just > Perl". > > > > I'll > > > > see about loading it up, and adding a dongle. Should be > straightforward > > > > at > > > > home. > > > > > > There _may_ be others on the Xastir list that know a little Perl and > can > > > help... > > > > > > Perl: The first write-only language? > > > > Hah, as if. You must never have written a program in APL. And you > should > > have been there in the days of TECO (TECO macros didn't look like > programs, > > they looked like line noise). > > Some of us were and the infamous TECO VT100 macro comes to mind. > > And then there was the TECO macro I did that allowed other lab denizens to > select > from a menu and program proms on the serially connected Data I/O > programmer. > > Topped off by the control menu that purported to restrict access to > various games > on the system so management had the illusion that engineers couldn't play > during > business ours. > > Those were the days...I think I even have a copy for Linux somewhere > around here. > If I distract myself enough I think I can resist installing it again. > > -- > Ken - N7IPB > Email: [email protected] > JID: [email protected] > SvxLink Repeaters: http://pnw220.wetnet.net > PGP Sig: F42B EF90 3CD3 31C7 3056 122E 993A 7B2E 5138 C42A > “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; > and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.” > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- Gerry Creager NSSL/CIMMS 405.325.6371 ++++++++++++++++++++++ “Big whorls have little whorls, That feed on their velocity; And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.” Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953) _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
