Hi! Ed,

On Sat, 01 Mar 14, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> You could have changed the extension during the save dialogue,
 PQ>> Ed.

 EV> I did that yesterday as a test and it saved the page with .TXT ext
 EV> that I manually added B4 I clicked the Save button.  Ta Da!

That warms the cockles of my heart to see that.  :)

 EV> I have downloaded a C=64 emulator but haven't tried it out.

Yep, I know the feeling.  It's one of those priority #99 jobs that you just
know is gonna be a headache.  So, it stays as the 99th job.

 EV> I learned to save GWbasic files with the ,a option so QBasic could
 EV> run them.

Ooh, nice.  I'm guessing it's an ASCII save option, without looking at any
doco files.

 EV> The ][ was a very good PC, a Ham Radio Operator ran a BBS using a ][
 EV> and I could Log On it using my Netronics ASCII Keyboard Video
 EV> Terminal over the airwaves.

Neat.

Around-about that time I visited a mate's house, who was living with about
2-3 other blokes.  They had an IBM PC of some sort running a dial-up BBS
that was a game server for a couple of games, as well as a 'gateway' for
play-by-mail moves to be entered.  Yes, people were playing games using
snail-mail to make moves & getting results back!  The PC was hooked up
to an accoustic coupler for modem players.  No shoes in the house! because
of the polished wooden floor, lest the noise play havoc with the
handset+coupler.

 EV> Later on I used a C=64 program called DIGICOM to Log On to another
 EV> Ham Radio BBS that was running on a IBM compatible, using Packet 
 EV> AX.25 .

Oh, yeah!

 EV> One thing I liked about the Commodore Disk Drive was it had DOS
 EV> inside the drive on a ROM, I didn't have to use a HELLO disk as the 
 EV> ][ users had to have to wake up the Apple DOS.    

That brings back memories.  :)  Somehow, during swapmeets, I picked up a
really nice Applebasic utility that I set as the (autoexec.bat-type) boot
program after loading AppleDOS.  It provided a menu based on the directory
listing for the floppy and ran a continuously-spinning ticker-style option
list at the bottom of the menu to run any listed executables.  It was the
'ants pants' of menu programs.

Cheers,
Paul.

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