ACT Apricot (was: Re: EDAX 9100 photos are on-line. )

In article <C1CC6F56.6C5E%witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>, Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> writes: I worked at the local Apricot dealer in Delaware at the time. I think that would have been the summer of 1984. The owner was a guy who had been a salesman at Computerland selling Apple ][s and even a few Lisas, IIRC. He chose the Apricot as the flagship line for his store. I worked for minimum wage doing tech stuff and the odd bit of programming for his customers. One guy had an entire business built around a chocolate chip cookie and needed dbase II programming done to manage his orders. That was the first and only time I've used dbase II, but it was pretty solid programming work for a few months. The owner had a customer in Washington, DC and while I was under 21 and couldn't legally drink in Delaware, the drinking age in DC was 18, so I could legally drink there. While debugging a LAN installation (my first experience with networking hardware or software) for a customer, I stayed for a few days down in DC. I went to a bar and drank enough so that I literally fell off my bar stool :-). Then there was the "closing time" tradition of the owner at the store. It would turn 5:00 PM and he would flip around the "open" sign in the window and say "I'll be right back". He'd return with a six-pack of Bud 16 ozers that we'd drink behind the store in the yard. (The store was a converted house.) Fun times! -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>