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  • Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth

    From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to tenser on Thu Mar 7 23:31:55 2024
    On a Prodigy(sp?) CD years ago was a C- - Program and I think some instructions for C - - too.

    I played with it some but didn't get fluent(sp?) using it.

    NOW C=64 BASIC and IBM DOS 2.11 BASIC I DUG.

    YEP!, I'm one of those...
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to hollowone on Thu Mar 7 23:38:59 2024
    I liked the Tagline about XEROX Alto You used.

    Here I am typing on a Android Phone and can't STEAL that Tagline.

    Now on my XP PC the Tagline File is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!

    Why isn't Multimail available in the APP Files on this thing.

    Sometimes I have to "Praise The Lord ANYHOW".
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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to Ed Vance on Sun Mar 10 13:47:30 2024
    I liked the Tagline about XEROX Alto You used.

    Thanks.

    Why isn't Multimail available in the APP Files on this thing.
    Sometimes I have to "Praise The Lord ANYHOW".

    I keep this tagline unique to 20-4-BEERS when I post from here.
    I saw list of taglines when I posted for the first time and had a thought "gosh.. another huge list of generic, boring and quite often lame taglines".

    So I'd killed all of them and at that time I was inspired by some documentary movie about XEROX Parp and how everybody stole from its prime ideas and how XEROX actually failed to monetize on its R&D.

    I'd considered this was brilliant idea to remind myself that not the inventors.. but sales force capable organizations win.. always.

    especially when I think I can invent something worth sharing :)

    -h1

    ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to hollowone on Sun Mar 10 16:15:09 2024
    The history I remember reading said the same.
    That's why I made the comment about the Tagline You used.
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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 10 23:40:38 2024
    The Tagline "Albatetize the Alphabet" brought to mind this:

    ZYXW VUTS RQ PONML KJIH GFED CBA

    Those spaces between the backward Alphabet mean pause(s).

    On a good day I can say the above in 3 point 5 seconds.

    I have to admit I have been beat two times by girls who were in the 8th Grade.

    I learned the alphabet backwards by typing the alphabet and then looking at the character on the right side, typing that character (z).
    Looking at the character to the left of the last typed character and typing it (y), and so on, so on until I typed (a).
    Then all I had to do then was look at the reversed line and repeat typing it, OVER AND OVER.

    Worked for me.

    I have to confess when saying the reversed alphabet out loud, at first (for many. many months), as I said each character my fingers twitched.
    Little finger on left hand, first finger on right hand, third finger on left hand, third finger on left hand... etc.
    For: zyxw.....

    Hope this tale was enjoyed by those reading it.

    It's the truth, it's actual, everything is satisfactual.
    Zippy-de-do-dah.......
    BTW de-do-dah doesn't mean a sublimital message in Morse Code.

    How's that for a Tagline?
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ed Vance on Thu Mar 14 10:04:00 2024
    Ed Vance wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    The Tagline "Albatetize the Alphabet" brought to mind this:

    ZYXW VUTS RQ PONML KJIH GFED CBA

    Those spaces between the backward Alphabet mean pause(s).

    On a good day I can say the above in 3 point 5 seconds.

    There's a culty little film called "Tapeheads" from the 1990s starring
    Tim Robbins and John Cusack as out of work security guards who become
    music video directors.

    In one scene, they're at their local watering hole, looking for another
    round of drinks, when the bartender tells them he's required to give a
    sobriety test. He asks them to sign the alphabet in ASL, backwards,
    skipping the vowels. They walk through it like that's something people
    do all the time. Odd, absurd, and funny.

    https://youtu.be/Ku_wLVbIUA4?si=B_bSulJDadhtqBeY&t=120


    ... Adding on
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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Ed Vance on Thu Mar 14 12:33:02 2024
    On a Prodigy(sp?) CD years ago was a C- - Program and I
    think some instructions for C - - too.

    I remember seeing Sphinx C-- around in the 90s, I don't think I ever actually learned it though. By then I probably acquired a copy of Turbo C++ 3 from a friend. Looks like Sphinx C-- is still around: https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/cmm/

    NOW C=64 BASIC and IBM DOS 2.11 BASIC I DUG.

    I totally missed the C64 era but DOS 2.11 / BASIC era was all mine! Our Tandy 100HX had MS-DOS 2.11 in ROM which I still think is one of the coolest features in a PC from that era - it booted so fast, and without a boot disk! And programming in GW-BASIC, or IBM BASIC(A), was absolutely where I got hooked on computers! I remember seeing BASIC code and thinking "these are English words, I can understand this!" was fantastic. Though of course it was the surface-level stuff like PRINT and GOTO that came so easy - I never did develop REAL expertise in BASIC. It was a fantastic launch pad into computer programming though!


    Chris/akacastor

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