Sorry just wondered what it felt like to make one of those shrill desparate posts, .......................................... :-) return to your cubicles.

Sounds like a desparate plea for attention to me

Maybe he never heard about the boy who cried wolf once too often...

Yes, one of my cats is a big crybaby for attention, also. He does exactly the same thing. So I smother him with "attention" until he can't stand it anymore and flees the room. * walks over and gives Wolf a wedgie * That'll teach you to wear underwear.

You don't need underwear when you got ducktape. Just trying to get the ducktape scandal stoked again. :) Ducktapegate....Ducktapegate. We're angry and we won't tape it anymore. Now don't we all feel much better.

Underwear?? Duck(what!?)tape?? Do we really want to know.........??? Probably not! ;-) plugs ears at wolf's high-pitched whine about wedgies

Here's what happened to the boy who cried wolf: After the townspeople allowed the wolves to destroy his only source of livelihood, he was forced to get on welfare antil his shrink advised him to sue the villagers for emotionalo damage, loss of livelihood and punitive damages. he now owns the entire village and all the villagers work like slaves for him at minimum wage while he lives in luxury. he also makes fee use of the villagers' virgin daughters and they're powerless to stop him because they're so many millions in debt to him they don't dare risk pissing him off. If you're not careful you could end up like him...

Only in America.

Martian, I think you have the story confused with some sort of perverted version of Bill Gates.

You forget that the boy who cried wolf was from a disadvantaged minority (Bestio-Mutonist) who was able to establish the principle of Inverse Wrong Rectification which, as damages, awards Affirmative Retribution Credit towards the Kingdoms Developmental Diversity Enhancment Initiative.

That sounds like Bill Gates

ummmmmm you forgot to post a mindless image of a tailor made body suit/item of clothing, and of course you havent furnished us with an incessant diatribe about the pain and suffering you experienced last week that has affected you and will continue to affect you for the rest of your life.....but will surely be eased with the support of your fellow members of the poser community! innocent snicker

hhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy... I did that blush looks round the room that was bad then huh? :/ jeez sometimes it's just nice to have a little conversation you know LOL...

For sounding such a loud false alarm, you are hereby sentenced to 30hrs community service operating an 8088 with a 10mb HD running Dos 3.0 or a Commodore 64 (judges choice).

Can the jury name the analyst in charge for carrying out the sentence???? I know who it is, I know who it is!! Don't be alarmed, I'm feeling all better now, return to your tutorials, I mean stations! evil grin

hey nothing wrong with a commodore64... i'd prefer a spectrum actuallyL.. I own three.. I wonder if they tried to make something like poser for it?L.. 17 hours and forty tapes later ... R:tape loading error.. L.. or the magic self-reset ... am I the only one who misses these things?L..

You are all younguns! I bought the first IBM PC that came out! $4,000. Single sided diskettes that held 160K. 64K of RAM. No hard drive. Later, they doubled the diskettes to hold 360k by using a little more space and writing on top and bottom...I think.

Actually i still run an OLD Macintosh IIci on my home network that i found in a dumpster. 20 megs for RAM MAC OS7.6 800 meg hard drive it was considerd a powerhouse back in its day. :-)

Oh yeah Chuck? Still got any working 8" floppy drives? ;]

ROFLOL...those were 5 and a quarter...you know that...but I think I managed to put my hands on some 8 inchers...Wang pops in my mind. Gargantuous things, they were. Popped in vertical as I remember.

Oh yeah, vertical drives. ;] Letsee... Wang, and the TandyColorcomps and the Trash 80, I think? My '80 still works [at least it did last time I plugged it in.. ] and it's got two vertical 8" floppy drives. And a 5mb hard disk... and DOS 3.1

Darn, IB, LOL...wastin' electricity? There was a time when I kept my old IBM 8080 and thought it might be a collector's item, then I returned to the real world...LOL. You guys see what Wolf started!?!?

LOL! Oh gods Chuck... my workshop in the back room practically IS a old PC tech museum. ;] I have the TRS-80 on a shelf under a parts bench, there's a stack of old 486DX-100's in a corner, another stack of old P60's through P166's in another corner I raid for parts [mostly floppies and CD-Drives & cabling] as needed. And then in the working end of the shop, there's my "toy": my Raptor DEC-Alpha 600 that I use for doing benchmark comparisons. ;] And the obligatory stacks of boxes of old vidcards, dead vidcards, dubious modems, dubious or dead Nic cards... dubious floppy drives, network cabling in the "it MAY work" boxes, monitors in the "Good for a few more days... " category, and empty cases that need motherboards and guts. My House, the Elephant's Graveyard: Where old computers come to die. snicker

WELL, IB, now I know why California is proposing the new law they are...for people like you...well, actually not, since you aren't filling their landfills...grin. DEC Alpha, huh? Jeez! I've finally gotten over that "it MAY be needed" sometime problem...and only have one small cupboard filled now...pats self on back for getting rid of digital packrat syndrome....hehe. I bet it looks something like the one of the pictures of the artist of the month...the robot graveyard thingie...which is REALLY nice.

Heya - the Raptor is cool. ;] It'd be cooler if you could get software that'd run on it, and if Compaq hadn't bought out Dec to kill it off, and... But it'll still out bench a lot of rigs I've seen, and it makes a good hardware baseline for when I do tests.

Yeah, Wang did have those 8" vertical floppies. If I remember correctly, I think there was a great HUZZAH when the 5.25 floppies were available for it. I had a lot of luck with Wang, actually taught some people at the Federal Reserve in San Francisco how to use it. Best of all, met my wife while teaching a class in Wang glossaries (remember those?). A lot of folks got left holding the bag, though, when that technology got passed by. I still have a WangWriter (TM?) in storage somewhere. My son - now 32 - still has a Commodore 64 - no kidding - that I gave him when I upgraded to an Amiga 2000, now sleeping in my garage, but still gets a test drive now and again. Wonder what's next and what will happen to the several PCs I'm running these days.

Not to mention all of the nifty techie jokes they inspired: "Help! My Wang is down, I can't get it up, and I have clients here waiting to use it!" ;]

At the Computer lab at the College I attend we actually have a hard drive disk hanging on the wall that measures about 36" across, that's about a meter for ya'll outside the states. Course the biggest hard drive disk I have is only about 9-10". And yepper, IB I still have some 8" floppies around here somewhere.

Oh, and you folks are right, I shouldn't put down the C64 (I still own a couple myself). So, change that sentence to an 8088 with 256k mem or a Vic-20. The 10mb HD and Dos 3.0 still stand though.

ah the good old C64, I got my hands on an emulator a while back and spent ages playing all my favourite c64 games, who remembers the last ninja games or turrican? Rob