Subj : Re: The Documentary... To : Digital Man From : Joe Delahaye Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 09:32 pm > > I think that the typical 'geek', or 'nerd' is supposed to have an old > > style haircut, have a pocket protector, wear glasses tht have been > > taped together, and be afraid of girls > > The computer 'geeks' that I've encountered tend to have questionable hygiene > (e.g. greasy hair, dandruf, body odor, extra long nose/ear hair, dirty > clothes, etc.) and lack common social skills (e.g. "afraid of girls"). :-) > Hmm, different geeks/nerds from this end then I never got into the programming very much, other then basic, and some pascal. I did however get into the building part. Went thru 3 different Radio Shack CoCo machines, 1 thru 3, and modified most of them. PUrchased a bare PC board (XT) and associated cards for same, all unpopulated, and build them up. Lot of soldering Pays to have a buddy that worked where I could get the parts for free (resistors etc.), except for certain ones I had to buy :( Worked too, and I used the thing for 2 years and then sold it . --- SBBSecho 2.10-Win32 * Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303) .