Subj : Old mail and new!
To   : Ed Vance
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Mon Oct 17 2016 09:42:10

On Nov Sep-10-1908 -07:-25, Ed Vance (1:2320/105.1) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 EV> 10-13-16 06:09 Roger Nelson wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Old mail
 EV> and new! Howdy! Roger,

 EV> 10-08-16 10:52 Holger Granholm wrote to Paul Quinn about Re: Old
 EV> mail and new!

[...]

 EV> I run XP and Vista and gonna stay with them after reading comments on
 EV> askwoody.com about Microsoft changing Win7 updates to be like WinTen
 EV> does, "Get 'Em All In One Big File", No Option to choose from those that
 EV> are proven to be Safe.

 RN> That isn't true here with either Windows 7 or Windows 10, so don't
 RN> believe everything you read and only half of what you see.  (-:

 EV> I'm glad to hear Your W7 and W10 pcs are behaving.

Behaving?  That's another story.  (-:

 EV> Leo Notenboom says the same thing as You, but there are some
 EV> comments to His article on W10 that are about the same as what I
 EV> read on Woody Leonhard's articles and comment sections.

If set up as I recommended, you should be presented with a list of Important 
and Optional updates.  You may then choose the ones you want to update, but I 
take them all so I don't have to depend on M$ or my memory to remind me that 
something wasn't updated.

[...]

 EV> When I got the Commodore 64 back in 1984, I was wanting to learn what
 EV> makes them work. I ain't done it yet, but I'm still at it.

 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.

 EV> A employee at a Commodore PC Store demostrated how easy it was to
 EV> draw a picture using the Amiga, but I didn't have the money to get
 EV> an Amiga. 

I don't recall if that was one of the things demonstrated, but the color, 
stereo sound and contiguous memory were what grabbed my attention.

 EV> A friend of mine used C=64 GEOS to draw a picture of himself and
 EV> his Commodore gear to print on a Floppy Disk Jacket and gave a copy
 EV> of it to me. 

Interesting.

 EV> I tried to edit out the mustache in the image and made a big blank
 EV> mess. 

LOL!

 EV> iirc When I moved (scrolled) the drawing, GEOS Saved the mess on
 EV> the floppy disk by writing over the original.   DUH!
 EV> So I gave up on trying to use GEOS to make a drawing.

Live and learn, Ed.

 EV> I tried using Paint in W3.1 to see if I could draw something and
 EV> didn't do any better than I did on GEOS64.

Technology wasn't there.  That's why the Amiga was ahead of its time.

 EV> I'm not a Artist, although I use Irafanview a lot, but I don't try
 EV> to draw something using it, I use it to Edit and to Save or Print
 EV> something I find in my wanderings around on the internet.

I can't even draw my own bath.


Regards,

Roger 
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