Hi! Ed,

On Thu, 27 Feb 14, you wrote to me:

 EV> I did try Saving a web page in Firefox by changing the extension to
 EV> Text but it still saved it with a .HTM extension.

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

 EV> I looked at it in LIST.COM and it is all in Plain Text.
 EV> I don't know why Firefox would do that, unless it wanted me to look
 EV> at the file through Firefox instead of NotePad.
 EV> Programmers have to have it their way.

Well, the Firefox programmers aren't the smartest on the planet.  Just the
most willing... to give of their efforts for *free*.

 EV> I talk to someone who lives a few blocks away that uses a XBox Game
 EV> System and he tells me about the troubles he has sometimes just trying
 EV> to get all the way through a game he is playing. I tell him that it's
 EV> just the way the programmer wrote it and for him to be able to
 EV> continue on in the game he has to do everything that is written in the
 EV> game's Code and then it will let him go to the next section of the
 EV> game.

Absolutely.  That's why it pays to make regular 'saves' in such things,
because you just know that you're going to get blown away in the next
section till you master it.  :)

 EV> I don't usually play a game on my computer(s) anymore. There were 
 EV> some that I liked playing that run on the Commodore C=64
 EV> but I haven't played any of them for quite a while.

Bummer.  There's probably a fix for that by using an emulator.  (I'm just
guessing, mind you.)  Very occasionally, I run one of my MS-DOS vBox PCs
and play a GWbasic game or three (from the late 80s).

 EV> Paul, Was your first Personal Computer a 8-bit computer such as a
 EV> Commodore, Atari or Texas Instruments PC?

The first PC that I got my mits on was an Apple ][.  That was at work,
where our HQ was issued one for 'familiarisation'.  We started off just
using the Applebasic stuff for a week or two, and then progressed from
there to running Apple CP/M applications like BSD Pascal, dBASE II,
Wordstar, Supercalc, and other things.  It used to get thrashed during the
lunchtime breaks running games; I was the most hated in the office for
stopping gameplay at the end of the breaks.

The Apple was eventually replaced with an XT and I used to thrash that with
a lot of TSR pgrograms, gained through some devious swapmeets with other
users.  The XT was a dual-purpose PC that was a smart terminal for use on a
mini-computer installation.  It meant that I could login to the mainframe
and pull data that I could later massage on the PC, using ill-gotten
software.  It also meant that I was the only person (TTBOMK) in any
nation-wide HQ able to provide meaningful reports from that data.

The XT was eventually replaced by a '386 which I retained for a number of
years, even after the rest of the headquarters was issued with '486 PCs
(with crippled maths co-processors).  It was the fastest PC in the HQ, and
was much sought-after by the IT section after I departed (resigned).  IT
found that it was 'clean', much to their collective surprise even after
attempts to un-format/un-delete the contents of the HDD; I did run a number
of utilities on it to make it so, though.  :)

My first actual PC was a '286/1Mb RAM, bought in 1990 IIRC.  (I recall that
I stuffed-up in Norton Commander once, and managed to re-date every file in
a directory tree to 1st September 1990.)  It came with MS-DOS 4.xx IIRC but
eventually I was running MS-DOS 5.xx & Windows 3.0 on it, since I
remember doing some simple multi-tasking on it using Windows programs (a
file manager called Becker Tools & a terminal app [whose name escapes
me] to access BBSs).

 EV> I got the C=64 back in 1984 and have learned a bit about them, but
 EV> I haven't applied myself to learn the really complex stuff about them
 EV> as a lot of folks have.

That reminds me of my sister's C-128.  I played with that one for a few
hours.  That's all I know of Commodore PCs.

 EV> I tell the people who think that I know a lot about computer,
 EV> "I've been whipped by one ever since the first day I turned
one on.".

Yes, a slave to th emachine.  I know what you're on about.

 EV> Mine sure keeps me humble.

In the end, I always win.  I know where the power comes from; it doesn't.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

... IF (STOOGE=CURLY) THEN print("Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!");
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox