BL> My next step is to twit any message with RS in it ;-). I *love*
 BL> this programming game! Infinitely configurable!

 JG> How about a C version? I'd be interested in looking at the code
 JG> :-)

... fx: mumble, mumble

  I bought a new computer, and it takes forever to set it up. I've
got an awful mess copying stuff across rather than reinstalling it,
trying to patch the two WIN.INI's together, and I'm already sorry I
started.

  The effect of all this speed is strange. At first, things happened
so fast that it confused me, but now it seems normal and the old one
runs like treacle. I haven't moved the modem or the hard drive across
yet, so that'll keep me off the street for a few days.

... [later]

  Jeezus! These slopes give me the shits. I didn;t get a "bok" with
the i/o card, so I drove up the shop and asked the guy for a leaflet
and he looks me straight in the ear and tells me that the instructions
were written on the cards, nowadays. I *knew* he was lying, but like a
mug I came all the way home and opened up the computer... and sure
enough all it had written on the FUCKING card was J1-26.

  So I drive all the way back again and the little tech comes out
from next door and zeroxes me a piece of paper 2" square! I swear it's
true!

  "Can you read that?" I asked him. "Is this all you've got?"

  "It was in the box," he says. "I'll put it on maximum for
you..."

  I feel like Alice in Wonderland. The Service Manual on the I/O card
consists of a piece of paper 2" square that the tech found at the
bottom of a box of Uncle Tobys Muesli Flakes. Bloody lucky he found
it, I reckon. I don't know what this country is coming to...

  Anyway, I've got the USR in the new computer now, and the poor old
2400 modem in the poor old 386, and everything is working again.
   
Regards,
Bob
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