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[sacrificialgoddess]

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Many thanks for the info on how to download a picture!  I think even I with my limited skills can figure it out.  If not, I'll ask my daughter who was a high school computer teacher, or as a last resort my husband.  But he is always saying that I'll never learn unless I understand the basic principles, and he doesn't like me always writing down instructions.  He is very disgusted when he sees all the notes I have here next to the computer telling me how to do this or that. 

One of my biggest successes was actually learning how to post a link.

Now that's just silly!  Note taking got me where I am today, and everyone has to start somewhere.  Tell him to stick it on that one! 

[OmarKhayyam]

"Now that's just silly!  Note taking got me where I am today, and everyone has to start somewhere."

Amen to that!

Val taught herself WordPerfect by just hitting keys and writing down the result. She had a "unauthorized" copy and no manual. She just set there hour after hour tying copying typing coping until she had her OWN manual.

Before she had her stroke she was a WordPerfect wiz. Seriously. Some of her macros were published and turned up in versions of WordPerfect. We both laughed when we saw that. Menus items and routines she had written almost line for line copied and added to the commercial program.

But she did it with NOTES, records of what worked what didn't what the status of the program was when it worked and when it didn't. She could go thru 100 pages of printouts on her dot-matrix printer (remember those?) in a day!

[MaineCaptain]

Yes Solfeggio, don't let anyone tell you not  to use notes, Everyone learns differently and some people learn best with notes. You are doing nothing wrong, you are perfectly RIGHT!  I like notes myself

[Kemay]

Wow ... step away from the computer for even a day or so and someone has summoned the ghost of Leisure Suit Larry!      

I have a huge nostalgia for those old games. Like Costrel, my parents still have a fully functional Commodore 120 in storage and a big box of floppy disks (5.25 ... remember those?) with all the games that still work. Shortly after college while I lived at home for awhile, I dug them out and played them.    Epyx was one of the coolest game companies ever on the face of the planet, along with Interplay (The Bard's Tale) and several others.
 
I actually have a Commodore 64 emulator on my PC now, and have occasionally used it to play Zork and Temple of Apshai and so on, just for fun. I used to have an Apple IIe emulator as well, for playing Bard's Tale and Might & Magic, but I don't have one at the moment. Ah, the Good Olde Days!

[OmarKhayyam]

"Ah, the Good Olde Days!"


C:\   

Nah, I don't think so.

[Kartari]

I have a huge nostalgia for those old games. Like Costrel, my parents still have a fully functional Commodore 120 in storage and a big box of floppy disks (5.25 ... remember those?) with all the games that still work.

A testament to the lifespan of low-density media.  The more they pack into smaller and smaller spaces, the shorter the lifespan... you're lucky to get five years from a computer these days before something blows...

Shortly after college while I lived at home for awhile, I dug them out and played them.    Epyx was one of the coolest game companies ever on the face of the planet, along with Interplay (The Bard's Tale) and several others.
 
I actually have a Commodore 64 emulator on my PC now, and have occasionally used it to play Zork and Temple of Apshai and so on, just for fun. I used to have an Apple IIe emulator as well, for playing Bard's Tale and Might & Magic, but I don't have one at the moment. Ah, the Good Olde Days!

Ah, the Bard's Tale!!!  And Temple of Apshai!!!  Remember Jumpman from Epyx?  And Epyx had all those Winter/Summer Games and such games...  Oh yeah!  Mail Order Monsters was my first OCD fix ever... and Ultima 4 was my all time favorite game...  And Adventure Construction Set from '81, which let you make your own roleplaying/adventure games... Keep up this game talk and I'll have to download the C64 emulator again myself!

[Celsus]

Ah, the Bard's Tale was awesome!!!

[Kartari]

C:\

Nah, I don't think so.

Ah, but to the uber geeks among us (ahem, myself, ahem), this was no trouble to endure for the pleasure of having a STABLE computer that functioned as expected!  In the days of the C64, if a program crashed, 99% of the time it was due to defective media.  With Windows, 99% of all crashes were (and still are) due to either Windows bugs, buggy software or both.  DOS was much more stable than Windows, even.  Yes it's prettier... but I'll take ugly and functional any day!

[OmarKhayyam]

Yeah, I know the only OS that won't lie to you.

Still

MD C:\data
Copy *.* C:\data\
CD C:\ data
DIR

You REALLY want to go back to that?

[Celsus]

Yeah, I know the only OS that won't lie to you.

Still

MD C:\data
Copy *.* C:\data\
CD C:\ data
DIR

You REALLY want to go back to that?

I don't!!!

[TigersEyeDowsing]

Those of us on Linux use the Terminal all the time.

[Kartari]

Yeah, I know the only OS that won't lie to you.

Still

MD C:\data
Copy *.* C:\data\
CD C:\ data
DIR

You REALLY want to go back to that?

As a pc technician and software developer, I never fully left that in the first place.  I use the Windows command prompt (e.g. DOS terminal) fairly frequently at work.

All I'm saying is, personally, I (as a certifiable geek) was a lot happier with computers back then.  It would of course be better to have an OS with a neat graphical interface that is also stable, but between the two I'll take stability.  Ubuntu Linux seems to be such an OS, so I must take TED's cue and get on the Ubuntu bandwagon asap.

[Kartari]

Yeah, I know the only OS that won't lie to you.

Still

MD C:\data
Copy *.* C:\data\
CD C:\ data
DIR

You REALLY want to go back to that?

I don't!!!

Lol!

[TigersEyeDowsing]

Yeah, I know the only OS that won't lie to you.

Still

MD C:\data
Copy *.* C:\data\
CD C:\ data
DIR

You REALLY want to go back to that?

As a pc technician and software developer, I never fully left that in the first place.  I use the Windows command prompt (e.g. DOS terminal) fairly frequently at work.

All I'm saying is, personally, I (as a certifiable geek) was a lot happier with computers back then.  It would of course be better to have an OS with a neat graphical interface that is also stable, but between the two I'll take stability.  Ubuntu Linux seems to be such an OS, so I must take TED's cue and get on the Ubuntu bandwagon asap.

Go try a LiveCD, Katari.  Most 'puters built in the last 4 years can handle liveCDs, no need to install it but you can get a feel for how it works. 

[Kartari]

Go try a LiveCD, Katari.  Most 'puters built in the last 4 years can handle liveCDs, no need to install it but you can get a feel for how it works.

I actually have already.  I tried Knoppix several years ago, and Ubuntu more recently.  I actually tried installing Ubuntu a couple of months ago but it wouldn't cooperate with my bootup manager (BootIt NG, which claims support for Linux partitions and even has online instructions for using it with Ubuntu).  After a week of hassles including four installation attempts, I was advised by the posters at the official Ubuntu forums to try switching to one of a couple of boot managers (GRUB or LILO) known to work with Ubuntu.  I ran out of both patience and time, but will try again at some point.

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