22 Oct
1998
22 Oct
'98
2:06 p.m.
I found that out. I was talking to the comp.tech guy at my school last
week about getting a copy. He told me he'd be able to get me the new
version for $50.
Shows just how full of bull @#$% he is.
Although he's the same guy that gave me a Tandy 1000TL because the "hard
drive was shot". The power cable wasn't connected to it <g --
-Jason
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From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com To: Discussion re-collecting of classic
computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Subject: Re: TRS-80 emulators
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 9:14 PM
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Jason Willgruber wrote:
> Actually, Tim Mann's TRS-80 page is where I got the disk images. I was
> going to get xtrs, but I don't have Linux (nor do I have the money to
get
> it). I have an emulator that'll run in DOS,
but won't recognise the
file
Linux? Money? Heheheh. What stone have you've been hiding under
junior?
LINUX IS FREEE, MAN!
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25 Oct
25 Oct
11:17 p.m.
New subject: [off topic] comptech guys (was Re: TRS-80 emulators)
I found that out. I was talking to the comp.tech guy
at my school last
week about getting a copy. He told me he'd be able to get me the new
version for $50.
Shows just how full of bull @#$% he is.
Although he's the same guy that gave me a Tandy 1000TL because the "hard
drive was shot". The power cable wasn't connected to it <g>
it goes to show just how full of bull@#$% they are
and hey that's coming from me - i _am_ a comptech guy!
but i'm not like that - really
i can't stand the ones that lie to make it seem like something really hard
when they could fix it in seconds or they just don't know and they're
trying to hide it
like the person that used to be my superior here...
when some phd student's file had gone corrupt (microsoft access i think it
was) she went into the dos prompt and did scandisk and all this other
totally irrelevant stuff when after i realised that she hadn't a clue i
spoke up and said that either the file is totally trashed (and it's your
problem you didn't keep backups) or the information is still there and you
may be able to salvage some of it or all of it if you open it up in notepad
which she did and it worked
but she couldn't handle the fact that she had to do so much cut and paste
still i think it would be better than retyping the whole thing in, don't u
agree? - it was a 10M file btw
and whenever anything goes wrong with a computer that was incomprehensible
for her - "It's a VIRUS!"
that scares them all
a few times i would discretely go to the student after she would go away
and say, "Well, actually, it's _not_ a virus... Here..." and I'd fix it
for
them
that's really a shame 'cause a lot of comp tech ppl do that and it's spread
and a lot of ppl react like that
anything unusual - virus
"Nasos, would you come here and check this computer. I think it has a virus!"
Um, no it just crashed
the cable is loose
the disk drive died (we do have old computers here)
oh well,
nasos
26 Oct
26 Oct
1:22 a.m.
New subject: [off topic] comptech guys (was Re: TRS-80 emulators)
Athanasios Kotsenos wrote:
when some phd student's file had gone corrupt
(microsoft access i think it
was) she went into the dos prompt and did scandisk and all this other
totally irrelevant stuff when after i realised that she hadn't a clue i
spoke up and said that either the file is totally trashed (and it's your
problem you didn't keep backups) or the information is still there and you
may be able to salvage some of it or all of it if you open it up in notepad
which she did and it worked
but she couldn't handle the fact that she had to do so much cut and paste
still i think it would be better than retyping the whole thing in, don't u
agree? - it was a 10M file btw
Back in my days as a Radio Shack Computer Center tech support guy,
a customer came in with a crashed SuperScripsit file. (For any of
you who remember, Model III SuperScripsit had the most fragile file
format ever known to that point (though since exceeded by most of
the Microsoft Word formats) -- if the first couple of sectors in a
file were hosed, there went all of it. I did a sector-by-sector
salvage of ASCII text into a CR-delimited file, but I never knew
how well the salvage went, as the text was in Latin, a language I
can only follow with extensive dictionary help. The customer took
it back to his secretary and I never saw him again, though my
previous salvages of his (English) files had been fairly frequent.
(I take that back -- I've seen him a few times since on television
since he shows up now and again in New Age and UFO documentaries --
Los Angeles can be a wonderful place that I miss intensely).
--
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