Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL CAPS?

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 10:14 pm

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL CAPS?

I wonder if someone got a new Modem for Christmas :-P At least that's what it reminded me of when BBS Noobs got a
'puter and modem for XMas and got onto the BBS echos for the first time. Now'days there's no excuse, but back in
the day some of those older systems didn't do lowercase very well, especially the TRS-80 systems.

Sam


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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 10:14 pm

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL
CAPS?

I think I got halfway through the first paragraph before I stopped reading
it. I was afraid that if I read any further I might incur some brain damage.

But at least he was considerate enough to type that in all caps. That's a
good way of saying "Do not read me!"

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Sam Alexander to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 10:30 am

I wonder if someone got a new Modem for Christmas :-P At least that's what 'puter and modem for XMas and got onto the BBS echos for the first time. No

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sam Alexander on Tue Dec 27 2011 12:48 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Sam Alexander to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 10:30 am

I wonder if someone got a new Modem for Christmas :-P At least that's wh 'puter and modem for XMas and got onto the BBS echos for the first time.

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

I remember 80 because I used thedraw then. Still do even now.

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sam Alexander on Tue Dec 27 2011 12:48 pm

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Yep, I remember that, but it was mainly because of new C64 users with dumb terminal programs.

I recall getting my hands on one particularly nifty C64 terminal program that actually emulated 80 characters. At the time, that Commodore was the only computer I had, so I was ecstatic to run across that program. :)

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Dreamer to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 07:56 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sam Alexander on Tue Dec 27 2011 12:48 pm

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Yep, I remember that, but it was mainly because of new C64 users with dumb terminal programs.

I recall getting my hands on one particularly nifty C64 terminal program tha actually emulated 80 characters. At the time, that Commodore was the only computer I had, so I was ecstatic to run across that program. :)

Was it CCGMS by any chance? That was my favorite for the C64.

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sam Alexander on Tue Dec 27 2011 12:48 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Sam Alexander to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 10:30 am

I wonder if someone got a new Modem for Christmas :-P At least that's what 'puter and modem for XMas and got onto the BBS echos for the first time. No

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Yuppers, I was one of those rugrats back in the day as I dialed into my first BBS in 1988 using my 300 bps direct connect modem and TRS-80 Color
COmputer 2 which was only 32 columns wide per line. Crazy how times have changed --

What's fun though is I still have all that old equipment, so maybe some day I can pull it out and show my kids how it used to be.

Sam


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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 01:16 pm

I remember 80 because I used thedraw then. Still do even now.

Yuppers, TheDraw is still the tried and true for me.

Sam


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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Dreamer to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 07:56 pm

I recall getting my hands on one particularly nifty C64 terminal program tha actually emulated 80 characters. At the time, that Commodore was the only computer I had, so I was ecstatic to run across that program. :)

I was in school, programming in an assembler class on a VAX. Dialing up to a VAX with a 80 column C64 terminal program, attached to a 12" black and white TV. Eyestrain city!


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RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL
CAPS?

Not really - I just read the first few lines if I can and then just write the post off as some flame. Reminds me of the old days of BBS'ing when some systems couldn't stay in lower case. Commodore? MAC? I forget which but it used to happen all the time on my C64 BBS back in the 80's


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RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Sam Alexander" <sam.alexander@BAUD2400>

time. Now'days there's no excuse, but back in
he day some of those older systems didn't do lowercase very well, especially the TRS-80 systems.

That's it!! The TRASH-80!~
;-)


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RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>


Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Sam Alexander to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 10:43 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to Sam Alexander on Tue Dec 27 2011 12:48 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Sam Alexander to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 10:30 am

I wonder if someone got a new Modem for Christmas :-P At least that's what 'puter and modem for XMas and got onto the BBS echos for the firs time. No

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Yuppers, I was one of those rugrats back in the day as I dialed into my firs COmputer 2 which was only 32 columns wide per line. Crazy how times have ch

What's fun though is I still have all that old equipment, so maybe some day

Sam

I remember the c64 and the 1702 and the 1541 and the Taihaho 300 bps and runni ng Image. That was the thing then. Of course a 20 or 40 mb external was
always nice to run the bbs system on.


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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Sam Alexander to The Millionaire on Tue Dec 27 2011 10:43 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 01:16 pm

I remember 80 because I used thedraw then. Still do even now.

Yuppers, TheDraw is still the tried and true for me.

Sam

I sometimes use Elyedit for some things as well.

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to Dreamer on Wed Dec 28 2011 12:44 am

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Dreamer to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Dec 27 2011 07:56 pm

I recall getting my hands on one particularly nifty C64 terminal program actually emulated 80 characters. At the time, that Commodore was the onl computer I had, so I was ecstatic to run across that program. :)

I was in school, programming in an assembler class on a VAX. Dialing up to a VAX with a 80 column C64 terminal program, attached to a 12" black and white TV. Eyestrain city!

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realitycheckBBS | http://realitycheckbbs.org

Do you remember GEOS? That was the Windows version based for the c64.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL CAPS?

Not really - I just read the first few lines if I can and then just write th post off as some flame. Reminds me of the old days of BBS'ing when some systems couldn't stay in lower case. Commodore? MAC? I forget which but it used to happen all the time on my C64 BBS back in the 80's

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

CAPS meant yelling when lowercase meant calm.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Wish I had mine still <sobs>

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û


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Poindexter Fortran once wrote to All:

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL
CAPS?

I saved it onto the harddisk for later to open in a text editor and make case conversion. (-: I sort of miss the days when there were lots of weird and 'obscure' stuff to find at BBS message areas.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

That's it!! The TRASH-80!~
;-)

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Ha! To me it was always the Trash-80, even though they tried to change it to the Trash-80 Crap Computer. I loved going to Radio Shack and messing around with the ones they would have on display!

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Great, I think I still have a C-128 somewhere in storage! No monitor tho, and it's going to be hell trying to hook it up to a TV these days, hehe.

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

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The Millionaire wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

Do you remember GEOS? That was the Windows version based for the c64.

Yep - I had GEOS, a Q/Link (later to become AOL) account, and
a 1200 baud Anchormodem on my C/64.


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Poindexter Fortran wrote to All <=-

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL
CAPS?

My brain doesn't like it.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Lothar Savage to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 08:01 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

That's it!! The TRASH-80!~
;-)

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Ha! To me it was always the Trash-80, even though they tried to change it to the Trash-80 Crap Computer. I loved going to Radio Shack and messing around with the ones they would have on display!

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

Wow! No way! So would I. Radio Shack was my 2nd home. :-)

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Lothar Savage to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 08:04 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Great, I think I still have a C-128 somewhere in storage! No monitor tho, an it's going to be hell trying to hook it up to a TV these days, hehe.

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

Yeah I had a 128d. It had 4 OSes built in. Poorly marketed though but a great little comp at the time. :-)

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to The Millionaire on Wed Dec 28 2011 04:23 pm

The Millionaire wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

Do you remember GEOS? That was the Windows version based for the c64.

Yep - I had GEOS, a Q/Link (later to become AOL) account, and
a 1200 baud Anchormodem on my C/64.

... Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing

Wow I remember QLink and I had a 300 baud Taihaho modem.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Bbsing.Bbs to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Dec 29 2011 02:37 am

Poindexter Fortran wrote to All <=-

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL CAPS?

My brain doesn't like it.

A lot of Sysops would get angry and a lot of users would usually in most
cases reject a reply.

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RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

I was in school, programming in an assembler class on a VAX. Dialing
up to a
VAX with a 80 column C64 terminal program, attached to a 12" black and white
TV. Eyestrain city!

HA!! That's what I used to doo too! Way too funny. (not the programming but the VAX via 64) When I first moved to my place here, I was still taking a few classes at TinkerToy Tech (College of Marin) and sure'nuf.. someone wrote the phone number on the jack the modem was plugged into. Thankfully the CIS class I was taking at the time was self paced. I was able to turn in my final almost three weeks early. Those were the days!


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RE: Re: CAPS LOCK
BY: "The Millionaire" <the.millionaire@PARKAVE>

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Wish I had mine still <sobs>

Dude.. Craig's list!! I landed some awesome deals on like new equip.
Now if I could just find one of those Omnitronics RS-232 boxes.
I have several Net-232 devices which are supposed to convert serial to ethernet. If I can get one to talk with the VIC 1011A, I'll bring up my 64 with 6487 BBS just for giggles. Heck, I even found a source for SS-SD floppies!


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I recall getting my hands on one particularly nifty C64 terminal program th actually emulated 80 characters. At the time, that Commodore was the only computer I had, so I was ecstatic to run across that program. :)

Was it CCGMS by any chance? That was my favorite for the C64.

I honestly can't remember. I do plan on getting another 64 sometime this next year to play around with, so I'm sure I'll run across it again at some point.


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Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL
CAPS?

Not really - I just read the first few lines if I can and then just write JM>post off as some flame. Reminds me of the old days of BBS'ing when some JM>systems couldn't stay in lower case. Commodore? MAC? I forget which but it JM>used to happen all the time on my C64 BBS back in the 80's

I think I remember there being a problem using a beamer to call a commie if
the commie didn't properly support IBM ANSI. Or maybe it was the reverse.
It was so long ago it may have been me on that one 64 I owned -- I remember trying to sort out why I could only type in uppercase characters with the
caps lock off (turning the lock on, or shifting, resulted in non-alpha characters).



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Do you remember GEOS? That was the Windows version based for the c64.

Yeah! I never owned it, but a friend of mine had it on his 128. We
were just kids, and I was still learning computing, but I was pretty
blown away by it. I don't think I'd even seen Windows or a Mac yet.




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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 02:12 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Wish I had mine still <sobs>

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I've got about 5, though 2 of them don't function. A couple of them I purchased for $2 at the local Pawn shop. That was in about 1994 or 95 when they were well on their way out. The problem is, that I only have 1 power brick! I think I might have a second one still at my folks place from ages ago, I hope they haven't thrown that out yet. Also got a disk drive a couple of the datasette drives. There is a Vic20 in the collection too.

However, I don't have them set up ready to use, just taking up space.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Lothar Savage on Thu Dec 29 2011 01:15 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Lothar Savage to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 08:04 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Great, I think I still have a C-128 somewhere in storage! No monitor tho, it's going to be hell trying to hook it up to a TV these days, hehe.

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

Yeah I had a 128d. It had 4 OSes built in. Poorly marketed though but a grea little comp at the time. :-)

$ The Millionaire $
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Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

Are you thinking of the Commodore +4 which have 4 software programs built in? I don't think the C128 had anything else apart from the "C64" mode.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Boraxman to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 02 2012 08:35 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 02:12 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Wish I had mine still <sobs>

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I've got about 5, though 2 of them don't function. A couple of them I purchased for $2 at the local Pawn shop. That was in about 1994 or 95 when they were well on their way out. The problem is, that I only have 1 power brick! I think I might have a second one still at my folks place from ages ago, I hope they haven't thrown that out yet. Also got a disk drive a coupl of the datasette drives. There is a Vic20 in the collection too.

However, I don't have them set up ready to use, just taking up space.

OMG! I remember the VIC.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Boraxman to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 02 2012 08:37 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Lothar Savage on Thu Dec 29 2011 01:15 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Lothar Savage to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 08:04 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Great, I think I still have a C-128 somewhere in storage! No monitor t it's going to be hell trying to hook it up to a TV these days, hehe.

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

Yeah I had a 128d. It had 4 OSes built in. Poorly marketed though but a g little comp at the time. :-)

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

Are you thinking of the Commodore +4 which have 4 software programs built in I don't think the C128 had anything else apart from the "C64" mode.

It had 64, 128, ML and another one that I can't remember.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Boraxman on Mon Jan 02 2012 12:52 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Boraxman to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 02 2012 08:35 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 02:12 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43 pm

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Wish I had mine still <sobs>

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I've got about 5, though 2 of them don't function. A couple of them I purchased for $2 at the local Pawn shop. That was in about 1994 or 95 wh they were well on their way out. The problem is, that I only have 1 power brick! I think I might have a second one still at my folks place from ag ago, I hope they haven't thrown that out yet. Also got a disk drive a co of the datasette drives. There is a Vic20 in the collection too.

However, I don't have them set up ready to use, just taking up space.

OMG! I remember the VIC.

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I was hooked on the game SkyBlazer for the Vic 20 back when I had one in 1991. Great computer, one of the best I've ever used.

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Boraxman to The Millionaire on Tue Jan 03 2012 07:33 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Boraxman on Mon Jan 02 2012 12:52 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Boraxman to The Millionaire on Mon Jan 02 2012 08:35 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Jimmy Mac on Wed Dec 28 2011 02:12 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Jimmy Mac to DOVE-Net.Entertainment on Thu Dec 29 2011 03:43

RE: CAPS LOCK
BY: "Poindexter Fortran" <poindexter.fortran@REAL

REMEMBER THIS? YOU'D GET A MESSAGE
POSTED IN ALL CAPS THAT ONLY USED
40 CHARACTERS OF THE SCREEN BECAUSE
THAT WAS ALL THEY HAD?

Hey now.. Careful there...
I'm about this close to bringing my C=64
BBS back online <grin>

Origin: Skulls & Crossbones - telnet://skulls.sytes.net

Wish I had mine still <sobs>

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I've got about 5, though 2 of them don't function. A couple of them I purchased for $2 at the local Pawn shop. That was in about 1994 or 95 they were well on their way out. The problem is, that I only have 1 po brick! I think I might have a second one still at my folks place from ago, I hope they haven't thrown that out yet. Also got a disk drive a of the datasette drives. There is a Vic20 in the collection too.

However, I don't have them set up ready to use, just taking up space.

OMG! I remember the VIC.

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I was hooked on the game SkyBlazer for the Vic 20 back when I had one in 199 Great computer, one of the best I've ever used.

Do you remember the Commodore Pet 2001? We first used that in elementary school. It was a 1 piece system similar to the Radio Shack TRS-80 models.

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û


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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Boraxman on Tue Jan 03 2012 01:47 pm

Do you remember the Commodore Pet 2001? We first used that in elementary school. It was a 1 piece system similar to the Radio Shack TRS-80 models.

I used a variety of PET[1]s in high school. They had some models with a whopping 32k of RAM, real keyboard, and 80 column screen. 2 140k floppies using that weird IEEE bus, and an add-on chip that did cool graphics.

[1] Personal Electronic Transactor

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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to The Millionaire on Tue Jan 03 2012 06:48 pm

Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Boraxman on Tue Jan 03 2012 01:47 pm

Do you remember the Commodore Pet 2001? We first used that in elementary school. It was a 1 piece system similar to the Radio Shack TRS-80 models.

I used a variety of PET[1]s in high school. They had some models with a whopping 32k of RAM, real keyboard, and 80 column screen. 2 140k floppies us that weird IEEE bus, and an add-on chip that did cool graphics.

[1] Personal Electronic Transactor

Oh is thst what it stood for? I was only 11 at the time so I wasn't very tech savvy back then with the specifications. :-P

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û


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Re: Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Boraxman on Tue Jan 03 2012 01:47 pm

I was hooked on the game SkyBlazer for the Vic 20 back when I had one in Great computer, one of the best I've ever used.

Do you remember the Commodore Pet 2001? We first used that in elementary school. It was a 1 piece system similar to the Radio Shack TRS-80 models.

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

I definitely remember the Vic 20 and the PET. We also had a computer lab in elementary school with PETs and Apple IIEs

Lothar Savage
Berkeley, CA

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 22:14:05

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL CAPS?

Lol, yes!

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Interloper to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Jan 18 2012 04:03 am

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 22:14:05

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL CAPS

Lol, yes!

He must be trying to get us to hear him. LOL! Caps always meant angry on
bbses but some people still have a problem I guess. :-P

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û


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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Interloper on Tue Jan 17 2012 21:32:29

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Interloper to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Jan 18 2012 04:03 am

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 22:14:05

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of ALL C

Lol, yes!

He must be trying to get us to hear him. LOL! Caps always meant angry on bbses but some people still have a problem I guess. :-P

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

There always seems to be one or two that don't understand grammar. When you
TALK like THIS, you're SHOUTING! (< exclamation point. See what I did there?)

Interloper
www.kyletowns.com

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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Interloper to The Millionaire on Wed Jan 18 2012 01:43 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Interloper on Tue Jan 17 2012 21:32:29

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Interloper to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Jan 18 2012 04:03 am

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 22:14:05

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of AL

Lol, yes!

He must be trying to get us to hear him. LOL! Caps always meant angry on bbses but some people still have a problem I guess. :-P

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

There always seems to be one or two that don't understand grammar. When you
TALK like THIS, you're SHOUTING! (< exclamation point. See what I did there

Interloper
www.kyletowns.com

I love my grammar. she makes great cookies.

"Practise safe Lunch, Use a Condiment"


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Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Corey to Interloper on Wed Jan 18 2012 11:22 am

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Interloper to The Millionaire on Wed Jan 18 2012 01:43 pm

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: The Millionaire to Interloper on Tue Jan 17 2012 21:32:29

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Interloper to Poindexter Fortran on Wed Jan 18 2012 04:03 am

Re: CAPS LOCK
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Mon Dec 26 2011 22:14:05

Does anyone else find their eyes glaze over after a screenful of

Lol, yes!

He must be trying to get us to hear him. LOL! Caps always meant angry bbses but some people still have a problem I guess. :-P

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û

There always seems to be one or two that don't understand grammar. When
TALK like THIS, you're SHOUTING! (< exclamation point. See what I did th

Interloper
www.kyletowns.com

I love my grammar. she makes great cookies.

"Practise safe Lunch, Use a Condiment"

Hardy Har Har. LOL! :-P
Yeah my Grandma made great cookies when she was alive. :-)

$ The Millionaire $
Park Avenue Place
Surrey, B.C., Canada Û  Û


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