30 Aug
2002
30 Aug
'02
11:44 a.m.
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Derek Peschel wrote:
I just realized that "seminally useless"
could also mean "unable to have
descendants", as in "its sperm is useless". :)
True. I just throw big words into my sentences to make myself seem
impressive (sometimes I don't even know what I'm writing and it just
happens to work out). Checking with the online thesaurus it is
grammatically feasible to say "seminally useless" in the sense I meant
it, which is to say it was bunk from the get go.
Writing a debugger is what I had in mind. In that
case the feature is
Right. I hadn't thought of that. I suppose a few latchable LEDs hooked
into decoders in the address path at the right places might work for that
sort of thing, if not kludgily so.
You find me an archive of Call A.P.P.L.E. magazines,
I'll find you a
source.
Are you coming to VCF this year? I can let you dig around in the magazine
boxes until you come across them. Of course, it will probably take you
all weekend :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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