Re: Wasilla?
  By: Bob Ackley to Gene Buckle on Thu Nov 16 2006 05:18 am

 > Replying to a message of Gene Buckle to Steven Horn:
 > 
 >  GB> That's a shame.  With the exception of the stupid flame fests, FidoNet
 >  GB> is a pr etty good thing.  I've been around since 1985 or so, in one
 >  GB> capacity or another.  I even cobbled together a tiny mailer for CP/M
 >  GB> in Turbo Pascal back in the day. :)
 > 
 > A fellow in Omaha named Jack WInslade cobbled together a complete
 > Fidonet-capable BBS system running on CP/M.  He had it available (free)
 > for d/l for quite a while back in the 80s.  He said that he did it mainly
 > because "they said it couldn't be done."   The same fellow
also told of
 > taking a COBOL class at the local university, and that his prof didn't belie
 > that he wrote his programs on a Heathkit H-8 (there was a COBOL compiler
 > available for CP/M) - in COBOL there's a statement identifying the 'source
 > computer' - he had to show the machine to the guy.  Haven't heard from or
 > about him in years.
 > 

Hehe.  More things get accomplished because someone gets told "it can't be
done"! That's how I ended up porting Telegard 2.5 to Linux. *laughs*  I
suppose I should release it someday. :)

g.
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