[ale] Introduction and info about myself

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I had sticks and arrowheads
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:48:30 
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Oh, man! Back in my day I had 1 hammer and 6 chisels


On 10/29/2012 02:34 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Wordstar.   Ahem... you're - uh - age is showing   :p
> 
> My start in computers was working on a PC with DOS 2.0 with Lotus
> 123 version 1A.   Back in those days even the format command
> assumed you meant "the current drive" so if you typed "format"
> rather than "format A:" after inserting a floppy it would happily
> overwrite the C: drive you'd started the format command from.  Back
> then we didn't even have "D'oh!" to express our feelings as it was
> pre-Simpsons.
> 
> I remember when I first used Wordperfect on Novel version 2 and how
> its big selling point was that you could hide or display formatting
> codes at will so it was an improvement over Wordstar which until
> then had been the killer word processing app.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: ale-bounces at ale.org
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen Sent:
> Monday, October 29, 2012 2:20 PM To: simontek at gmail.com; Atlanta
> Linux Enthusiasts Subject: Re: [ale] Introduction and info about
> myself
> 
> I suppose I fall into the vi category, since I have only used emacs
> onceŠwell, I opened it once, and then I spent all of the time it
> was open trying to figure out how to get out of it :D  Figuring out
> the pid at another terminal and killing it works nicely, BTW. As
> for nano/pico - my nickname for them is "The line-wrapping config
> file mangler!"  They work great a long as no one opens a complex
> config file with really long lines.  I'm also partial to joe, since
> I used to be a WordStar fanatic, and most of the key sequences
> match up - especially when you open it with "jstar"
> 
> -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer The University of Alabama
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com" <simontek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I use vi myself. A lot of people I know use nano, only 2 people I
>> know use emacs. I figure if I have to use a manual just to exit
>> the program, I don't need it. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Rich Faulkner
>> <rfaulkner at tux86.org> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org Date: Mon, 29
>> Oct 2012 13:09:45 To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org> 
>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org> Subject: Re:
>> [ale] Introduction and info about myself
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