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[#] Fri Apr 27 2018 13:50:47 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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I had a friend whose company was "Lasser, Stern, Kinder and Company" - His last name was Lasser. Stern was his wife's maiden name. Kinder is kids in German.....

[#] Sat May 19 2018 16:57:45 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWQYAfuMYw

[#] Thu May 31 2018 11:43:59 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Great demo, but that guy really shouldn't have a ponytail.

[#] Mon Jun 11 2018 23:06:18 EDT from ax25

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I had a gig doing Clipper programming back in the day for a company that was a middle man for nuts, bolts and screws.  Not sure if it was DBase II before they moved to Pervasive on the Novell server or not.



[#] Thu Jun 21 2018 10:25:20 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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Three letter usernames.... Awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4lDvkAFyps

[#] Fri Jun 22 2018 10:37:49 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Heh. I've been logging in to computers as 'ajc' for about 35 years but I never worked for Bell Labs. Respect the unsung heroes!

[#] Fri Jun 22 2018 14:07:27 EDT from kc5tja

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I just use my callsign in most cases. I think the shortest user name I ever had was "saf2".

[#] Fri Jun 22 2018 14:50:38 EDT from wizard of aahz

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Aah"Aahz."
"Oz?"
"No relation."

[#] Fri Jul 06 2018 01:40:01 EDT from ax25

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First come, first served.  Should be the rule of the day. - so saith ax25.  4, but who is counting.



[#] Wed Jul 25 2018 17:29:11 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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And there might just be some merit to having a username (and by extension, email address) that people aren't just going to be able to guess. If they want to find you they can look in the !@##$^%&^*^%#$@ directory.

I was 'ajc' *everywhere* from the early 1980's until 2001, when I took a job with some directory nazis who insisted on first initial last name convention.

[#] Wed Jul 25 2018 18:38:00 EDT from wizard of aahz

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Why would you want to be the American Jewish Congress?

[#] Fri Jul 27 2018 15:59:35 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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No, I want to be the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

[ http://photos.citadel.org/2016/IMG_20160224_190923.jpg ]

Although I think the American Jewish Congress is a customer in one of our data centers.  When I walk past the rack that says "AJC" I wonder why I don't see any of my stuff in there.

 



[#] Mon Jul 30 2018 14:42:57 EDT from fleeb <>

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Anodized Joint Connection

[#] Mon Jul 30 2018 15:56:25 EDT from wizard of aahz

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Not sure why you'd anodize your pot... I guess if you were trying to connect it to something it might make some sense.

[#] Tue Jul 31 2018 10:34:31 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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stem/calyx, anode/cathode, tomayto/tomahto, whatever

[#] Fri Aug 24 2018 18:28:27 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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This is pretty cool. A bunch of fairly well known retro computing enthusiasts (including The 8-Bit Guy) got hold of an empty Apple ][ case, and each took turns improving on the idea of turning it into a working Raspberry Pi based machine.

[ https://wn.nr/C2nHSr ]

Even better, they're now going to give it away to a randomly selected viewer.
Follow the link above to enter (or to just watch the videos).

I had thought of doing that exact project, but I didn't want to pay the increasingly significant amount of money required to get even a broken Apple ][. Glad to see someone else did it.

[#] Mon Aug 27 2018 09:54:40 EDT from wizard of aahz

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I've got an Apple II.. and no you cannot have it. I bet Ragnar has one or two hanging around too.

[#] Mon Aug 27 2018 10:19:02 EDT from winzlo

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There isn't a day that goes by that I don't regret selling my Apple IIgs system before I left for college. I had built it up to rival the 386/486 equivilants, and gave awey a ton of software which included a particular BBS software that I was very involved with. I miss Guy T. Rice. Lost track of him after he left Mankato, MN.

Ah, nostalgia strikes again.

[#] Mon Aug 27 2018 10:40:28 EDT from wizard of aahz

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heheh. I had a Franklin Ace 1000 from 1982. But I picked up an Apple II along the way and it is still hanging around.

[#] Mon Aug 27 2018 10:53:25 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I've got an Apple II.. and no you cannot have it. I bet Ragnar has one

or two hanging around too.

If I was going to raid Ragnar's collection (which would be dangerous considering he's more heavily armed than a third world country) I wouldn't be interested in anything Apple ... I'd go for the PET, which would be gutted and turned into a Raspberry PET, or the H-89, which would be downgraded to an H-19.

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