Subj : Old mail and new!
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Sun Oct 16 2016 11:13:10

On Sep Sep-08-1908 -08:-52, Holger Granholm (2:20/228) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 HG> In a message on Friday 10-13-16 Roger Nelson said to Ed Vance: 

Hej, (I forgot the Swedish word for morning, but I'll take a refresher course). 
 I think it's m¢rgon, but am unsure.

[...]

RN> All you have to do for that is change your upgrade settings; i.e.,
RN> download, but do not install without your okay.  I do that here.

 HG> Yes I know, but I haven't found that setting, even though I have
 HG> tried. 

What version of Windows are you using on your OS/2 machine?  (-:

 HG> Today came another upgrade, and I could read the report of what it
 HG> had upgraded. Nothing alarming there.

That's good.

EV> When I got the Commodore 64 back in 1984, I was wanting to learn what
EV> makes them work.

RN> That takes me back.  Too bad they couldn't produce a more affordable
RN> Amiga. That was a heck of a machine, but no one was writing programs
RN> for it.

 HG> I agree, my GS had one, and there is still an Amiga DOS manual on
 HG> the bookshelf.

 HG> The reason why nobody wrote programs for it, was that it was
 HG> considered to be only a game machine, as were the earlier
 HG> Commodores.

No matter what it was referred as, any computer with contiguous memory would 
have been a success, at least with me, but I'm only one person.  When I was 
president of our local computer club, I had a friend bring his Amiga in for a 
demo to the rest of those who showed up and I can tell you I was impressd from 
the outset.

 HG> There were in fact a few (a couple ?) office programs written for
 HG> it, but the Amiga never took off.

I didn't know about those, but I was considering getting an Amiga until some 
computer programmer friends of mine talked me out of it.  I did manage to 
convert an Amiga BASIC program so it would run on an IBM compatible.

 HG> If it had, even OS/2 would have been superfluos. It was that
 HG> capable. 

Maybe so, but we'll never know.

 HG> Have a nice day,

You too.


Regards,

Roger 
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