[ale] Introduction and info about myself

[Jim Kinney]

YOU HAD A HAMMER? !? All I had was a piece of bacon and a wet match
On Oct 29, 2012 10:51 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Oh, man! Back in my day I had 1 hammer and 6 chisels
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> 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:
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> >> 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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