Hi Jack, hope you are having a nice day! :-)

14-Sep-99 18:53:33, Jack Stein wrote to Gord Hannah
          Subject: File Managers

 GH>> I can't use that excuse, I personally use OS/2 my wife uses

 JS> everywhere today....  At any rate, I'm talking about "friends
 JS> and aquantances" that would be driving me nuts if I attempted to
 JS> actually help them with anything.

I am the oddball out here, I am the only one that I know of in my area
that is running OS/2..  WinX folks I tell them simply I am too rusty
with your type of OS and system perhaps you had best find someone
else.

 JS> The last "WIN guy" I helped out was told he needed more memory
 JS> them.  I cleaned it up for him, spent a few HOURS explaining
 JS> the difference between HD space and RAM, and after I felt he had
 JS> enough understanding, I left, and as I left he asked if I'd help

Some people are very dense, I explain HD space in an easy term, HD's
are like land how much land you got, you put too much on it and then
you run out of real estate.  Memory and and that HD and RAM have no
bearing on each other.

 JS> problem again...  What an ass, and ALL win users are like
 JS> that....  Nice people "sometimes" but DON'T EVER DISCUSS
 JS> COMPUTING with them, in any form, never help them, unless you
 JS> get paid GOOD MONEY.  It is always a bad experience

Most of these folks expect help for free.

 GH>> Dad never learns

 JS> He is a WIN guy.  You are stuck I guess, he's your dad.

He did not have a chance, he  got Win95 with his first puter, so he
was hooped from the start, BTW I have to hand it to him he was 67
years old when he got his first puter.

 GH>> Operating Systems.."

 JS> Win guys don't know what an OS is, they don't know what a file

Or their directory structure.

 JS> is, they don't know jack.  Some of them have MicroSoft
 JS> diploma's, thats even worse

Brain washed brain deads.


 GH>> I had the same success with DOS, my old system.

 JS> Not me.  I ran DOS for almost 10 years I guess, and it was
 JS> miserable, particularly if you pushed it at all with delayed
 JS> write caches, or let WIN3x anywhere near the damn thing.  I've

I never said I used Win3x much I did for a time, but never lost
anything.  I used DOS6.2 DV/QEMM to run my board and it ran
flawlessly.

 JS> seemingly on it's own too, just very poor memory management, the
 JS> hall mark of MS systems

Ahh they never stole QEMM's method of memory management..

 JS>> drives sitting here beside me, full of files, can't figure out
 JS>> what to do with them

Send them to me I will figger out a use for them, might even fire up
my old 386dx/40 with DOS/DV/QEMM and run my board under DOS just fer
fun, I would even add my old 730 to the pile that should do the trick.

 GH>> If they are oldies, keepem fer posterity, I have over 1500
 GH>> old programs on 5 1/4 sitting on a rack behind me.

 JS> I have enough 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppies here to pave a road from
 JS> here to California in magnetic media.  I have one box of 3 1/2
 JS> floppies someone gave me that must have several thousand disks
 JS> in it.  I bet I have a few thousand 360 floppies alone with old
 JS> junk on them.  I seldom through anything worthless away...  Yep,
 JS> still have my 8088 IBM PC sitting here, waiting for me to die so
 JS> some merciful soul will set it on the junk pile..

Maybe we should think about starting another net called oldfarts net
and use our old files and systems to run it. :-))


Hope this helps.  Keep us posted.

We are a fine board trying to make it better.

http://www.pris.bc.ca/ghannah
ghannah@pris.bc.ca
Cheers!
Gord Hannah
-=Team OS/2=-

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