G'day Bob,

On Mar 28 08:00 95, Bob Lawrence wrote to Jeff Green :

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

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

BL> ... fx: mumble, mumble

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

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

BL> ... [later]

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

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

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

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

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

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

No C version I take it? :-)
 
Regards...Jeff
Internet: jeff{at}grntrs.dialix.oz.au

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