[AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Tue Oct 9 17:48:17 CDT 2007


Just curious, why can you 'hardly use' Wordperfect?  Is it that you
don't get the chance to use it, or does it have a problem running in a
modern OS?

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jennifer
Gross
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:39 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

We use percussive maintenance quite a bit in the US as well.  I have one
computer that needs a good smack with the heel of my hand every once in
a while because the fan starts clattering and I can't stand the noise.
(I know I need to replace the fan before the whole thing overheats.)
The heel of the hand is great for eliminating many unwanted noises in
electrical equipment.

My first PC was the IBM pictured in the article.  At the time, with the
Epson dot matrix printer and a copy of Turbo Pascal, it was the largest
check I had ever written - over $3,000.  I still have the monitor - just
moved it from the garage to the attic - don't ask me why I've kept it.
It did not have a hard drive and I eventually put in a 10 meg drive and
an additional floppy drive.  There was so little RAM I can't remember
how little.  I used Turbo Pascal, VisiCalc, eventually Lotus 123, dBase
II.

I still have WordPerfect on one of my computers.  Hate that I can hardly
use it.  Love Reveal Codes.  Can never understand what the heck Word is
doing with formatting.

I've worked on Tandys in college.  I also used Vector Graphics computers
- they were the hot new thing in one lab, with Apple IIEs in the other.
A PDP-11 (I think) was in the main lab.

Jennifer

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:13 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs


Hi All,

Maybe it's a kind of Off-Topic for this Off-Topic thread, what I will
write next but in the end of this message it should be clear that I'm on
topic for this off-topic :) - pun intended :)

I still remember the time I first time had watched a TV set, which my
father bought and that was a black & white screen TV set, and we have
had a high 7-8 antenna to receive TV signals - first this antenna was
"sticked" to our house and I remember that when TV signal was bad we
used to go outside to the side of the house where this antenna was
installed and we used to beat it strongly, and that "beating" usually
helped to get better TV-signal :) 

I also remember - I even clearly see the picture now, when I'm probably
a 6 years old boy and I alone or with my mother go outside night winter
time (and this is Russian winter you know), and it's not that dark and
there is a moon and there are stars on the skies - all in all it is a
magnificent frosty Russian winter night with a lot of sparkling from
moonlight snow on the nearby trees etc. - and we have a movie on our TV,
and TV signal got worsened on the most interesting event as usual - and
so we go outside and beat our antenna strongly using heavy hammer - and
voila' we had got very good TV signal and we can watch our TV serial
further... 

...soon we got our antenna installed very high on the nearby tree and TV
signal became much better...

... in a few years later we got colored TV...

...
...
...

... now the house where I have got my first impression from our own
black & white TV - that house has a satellite dish and I can get TV
programmers from all around the World...

... and I can also use mobile Internet and when 3G and WiMAX
technologies will soon become widespread then MS SilverLight will become
as usual here as it was the snow sparkling on moonlight and a hammer I
used to make TV signal better...

If you do not have MS SilverLight yet installed then first watch this
site

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ 

without SilverLight; then go and get downloaded and installed MS
SilverLight
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx 

and then watch this page 

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ 

again... 

You'll get (very) impressed is my bet....

--
Shamil

P.S. Yes, I have seen HollyWood movies where slightly(?) drunken Russian
cosmonauts used to use hammer or similar tools to fix their spaceships -
that was funny... I do not think it was like that in reality but I can't
state that for sure - after all from my story above you can find that a
hammer was a rather universal tool here to fix many things even
TV-signal :) ...

P.P.S. Yes, we on Earth have got incredible technology progress in the
last half of a century:

- world first spaceship - Sputnik - was launched here on 7th of October
1957, 
- transistors  were invented several years before at 1950 at Bell Labs,
- one of the main methids of laser beam pumping was found in 1955 also
here by Basov and Prokhorov based on works of Charles H. Townes...

All that and many other foundation technologies were predesessors, which
made MS SilverLight a reality of today...

Unfortunately, as far as I can see, social progress is not getting
developed to the better so rapidly worldwide as technologies do... 

And who knows what this "developing to the better social progress" is is
becoming more and more open question today - at least as far as I see
it...
 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:55 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs

Hi John

You could have written her a macro or two. Oh boy, brings back memories
struggling with the curly brackets. I wrote about 1990 in WP 5.x a lot
of macros for clients - it was dark ages compared to now.

/gustav

>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 09-10-2007 18:45 >>>
LOL.  There was no future in WP.  I kept telling her to email you with
her questions but she refused...  What was I to do?


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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