Subj : Re: A Crappy Sales Call
To   : George Pope
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Jul 07 2021 21:17:00

George,

 GP> I feel the same -- they all meet in cabal type meetings to divvy up the
 GP> GDP. Gaes agreed to require all new hardware with the new Losedoze
 GP> (10), cuz the hardware manufacturers felt he was getting too much of
 GP> the pie. . .

  In talking with fellow ham radio operators on a digital/computer/technical
traffic net last night, one noted that "32-bit applications are going the
way of 16-bit, and it's going to be all 64-bit". I still like having the
BBS with the legacy apps and programs...in case someone stumbles on an old
computer they can use, and is told that a BBS is "a safe internet alternative".
Of course, there are very few dial-up BBS's now, and most are telnet/web. But,
in several aspects, BBS's are a lot different from the internet. 

  A fellow ham radio operator I knew had found at a flea market, an interesting
item. It was a portable computer deal with a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and only
2 floppy drives (one was 3.5" and the other 5.25"), but no hard drive (this was
when my BBS was still dial-up only). So, I created a Windows 95 startup disk
with just the command.com program...and the terminal mode for a dial-up BBS
utility on another disk. So, he'd power on the unit with the command.com disk,
then fire up the terminal program (GT Power Terminal Only (GTO)), and hook up
his modem, then dial-in to the BBS.

 >   That'd make a good deal for a pun contest. :)

 GP> Might be why someoner wrote it.

  These other 2 taglines come to mind:

"Junior!! Quit Playing With Your Floppy!!".
"Hard Disk??!! Lady, I misunderstood you!!". 

 GP> Be a good one for Callahan's one Punday Monday (ever read Spider
 GP> Robinson's "Callahan's" series; if you like puns & scifi it's an
 GP> amazing set of stories & a couple full length novels. . .

  Never heard of it. I did find 2 good websites, for taglines and puns
respectively.

https://www.taglinesgalore.com/index.html
https://www.punsgalore.com

 GP> He pays homage to some of his favorite stories & authors including R.A.
 GP> Heinlein's cat who walks through walls making several appearances.

  I never read Heinlein, but my late wife apparently had read his stuff.
His assessment of TANSTAFFL was so right...yet, so many refuse to accept
that.

 GP> In one story they take a dozen school buses & convoy down to Florida
 GP> from their original homes in NYS, stoppoing off to watch a shuttle
 GP> launch, & visiting Travis McGee's pier mooring in Key West.

  Nice.

 > ... What do people in China call their good plates?

 GP> 餐盘

  You'll have to explain that one to me...that's how it showed up in my
QWK packet.

Daryl

.... I'm Ohm of Borg. Resistance is relevant.
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