--- Paul Juhasz <paul@...> wrote:
>
>
> Thus wrote alienrelics@...:
> > Well I just wanted to say that I'm deeply offended by your use
> of
> > punctuation.
>
> ROTFL! Thanks, you made my day. :-))
>
>
> > Just kidding.... ;')
>
> Now don't go and spoil it! ;-)

So I'm a bit jumpy. I've had a few lately take my humor as if I
meant it. Even as obvious as that one was.

...
> I do like your site, interesting pictures - archmargfox - an
> intellectual
> looking girl wearing glasses and leaning on a two-handed sword?!?
> Or am I
> being too practical here?

Thanks!

> Whereas the page on NASA /is/ practical - some of my PC-friends
> think I'm
> behind their time, wonder what they'll say when they see that!

Yeah, isn't that cool? JPL used to be run by Amigas. Starting
almost as soon as the A1000 came out, yet Commodore did nothing
with that info.

...
> The fanfold does sound familiar, same with the TRS-80. So you're
> a geek
> too? ;-)

Oh, yeah. Most of my computers never get the covers back on them
now, well the Amigas do, but the Wintels seem to need something too
often. Upgrades, burnt out network cards, what a bunch of cheap
junk.

> And the ZX81 was not /that/ bad - for the price, anyway. I
> remember having
> endless hours of fun playing Cheops' Tomb on it - provided the
> RAM pack
> didn't wobble and crash it - which meant another 8 minutes to
> re-load.

I laboriously and carefully desoldered the edge connector and
reconnected it with 2 inches of ribbon cable, and hot glued the RAM
pack face down on the top of my ZX-81. And built an 8V regulated
power supply for it, to cut down on the heat produced by the 7805
5V regulator inside.

> > I currently run MS Windows 98, ME, and 2000, and Lindows 4.5,
> and
> > Amiga mostly via Amiga Forever. I consider MS Windows to be
> death
> > of a thousand cuts. In other words, there is no one single huge
> > deficiency, there are a thousand little ones that slow you down
> and
> > cut productivity and piss you off.
>
> You described it just perfectly - I also use a Win98 300MHz
> laptop with
> UAE on it - which seems almost more responsible than Win itself!
> It's
> hooked up to my A4000 via Parnet. Win98 can be a real arrogant
> beastie,
> telling me off, when the crash was clearly its own fault!

Hah! You've got that right. As long as MS Winblows doesn't
interfere, Amiga Forever is as smooth as a real Amiga. It runs
better on MS Windows than MS Windows runs by itself!

> > I mean, c'mon, I run MS Win2000 on 1.2GHz with 768M of RAM, why
> > does my mouse pointer become unuseably jerky just because it's
> > downloading a virus checker update?
>
> Perhaps because that update is a 10MB file? It sometimes scares
> me when I
> think what will be going on ten years from now. Size is STATUS!
> I'm sure
> even broadband on a 15GHz penti will be brought down to a crawl.

I don't know, I really pushed my Amiga 3000 and it didn't have
these problems. I did some phenominal things that I took for
granted, that bring my W2K computer to it's knees. Print an 11x17
inkjet while downloading some large files, and while it's putting
the print in the buffer it pauses several times and becomes
virtually unuseable, even if all I'm doing is reading email or
typing a letter. I used to do a lot more than that on my Amiga.

=====
Steve Greenfield // Digital photography, scanning,
Polymorph Digital Photography // retouching, and photomorphing
253-318-2473 voice // to your specs.
polymorph@... //
http://www.polyphoto.com/ // Based in Tacoma, WA, USA

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