X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ce34a8b9769b1564 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-24 18:46:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!cox.net!news2.west.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Faux_Pseudo Subject: Re: Do regular user need Linux? References: <10xm8.98924$1g.8098030@bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com> <9kup9us0d2d3b9ak0gjr2jvsl7aojtqlu0@4ax.com> Reply-To: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Lines: 41 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 02:46:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.8.9.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.west.cox.net 1017024371 68.8.9.87 (Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:46:11 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:46:11 EST Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16220 --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(info@zhou.de said it like only they can.)-- > In alt.ascii-art Dr Scab wrote: >>> >>>postscript is garbage. Real geek use his own FSM to control the >>>AOI gates, and tell the Laser-Jet what to print. > DS> > DS> Laser-jet? Real men use a needle and some ink and stab at > DS> the paper to simulate a dot-matrix printer. > DS> > > needle? No, use stone. > paper? No, sands. > in the enterest of makeing it more geek like i will offer your changes in a format that they all geeks will understand. > DS> Laser-jet? Real men use a needle and some ink and stab at > DS> the paper to simulate a dot-matrix printer. /needle/stone/ /paper/sand/ Where have all the good dot matrix printers gone? At my last job I found one hooked up to a ACD machine from 1989 that had 12 meg of ram. Any way this printer was the same type of DM printer that I had back in 1989. It was pritty freeky. The ACD box had a amber screen as well so all that was needed to give the appearance of my first computer was a nice big 286 cpu with two 5 1/4 drives and I would have felt right at home. Speeking of old hardware a friend needed a new keyboard and I stoped over at at thrift store to see if i could find them a IBM clicky one. Didn't find one a the first shop ( I had in the past for just $2) but did find 4 AT keyboards. To bad I got rid of that 386 last year. -- +-(faux@fugozi)-(0.01|0.08|0.08)-(18:39|Sun Mar 24)-+ cat ~/.{sig,uin} It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson UIN=66618055