Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 16/04/2011 21:52, chris wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 12:53 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 23:59 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>> And when some young person comes along and starts to ask questions, what 
>>> do the old farts say to him/her? "Don't expect us to do your 
>>> homework/assignment for you! Go and google for the information you free 
>>> loader!".
>> You bet! Waving my cane, in their general direction, is the only
>> exercise I get. But, it does reduce the liver-spots. :) Ric
>>
>>
> Don't you think it would be nice to move this to sounder.  I am having
> trouble getting my wheelchair over here. 
>  Picks up ear trumpet and waves peevishly at nurse aid to push in
> required direction..............  mumbling about his first z80 processo

Your Z80 was a baby when I was coding in assembly on y 6809. :)

But I have to admit, Z80 was the first really fancy CPU I used on my
TRS-80, and it's brother NSC-800 on the Canon X-07. Had to solder in the
additional 24kb of RAM on that Canon to get enough space to write the
programs I wanted for it. Good thing at the time Canon sent me the full
technical docs of the little machine when I sent them a letter asking
for it so that I could "hack into the machine". I was around 18 years
old. The TRS-80 still boots but has video RAM issues. The X-07 works
fine! With all the extra RAM still crammed inside it with meters of
ultra-thin wires soldered into place.

Yeah... Maybe I should have the nurse push my wheelchair over to the
SOUNDER BBS... :)

Oh... THANK-YOU, Basil! Thank-you for triggering this delightful burst
of nostalgia amongst us old farts! Guys (gals, too) what would we do
without Basil!

Gilles.