From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CYBERPUNK Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:36:19 Message Number 902 Running over an IBM with a car will be sure to bring Turtle to the CyberCon. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: SAURON Subject: catchy slogans Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:38:04 Message Number 903 Hell, I think we should be allowed to abort them up 'till about six or seven years after birth. They're not much good before them. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: LISP! Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:41:15 Message Number 904 You know, looking at that thpew reminds me of a lithp program (which, of course, is now a language which I CANNOT look at without belching (or, at least, going mildly inthane (which, of course, I am now))) but I believe "Buy American" (made, of courthe, in Korea (which ith where my ex-roommate is (and where he can thtay (yeth, I know that'th not nithe))))) is a travethty to the world market. The international Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Anything Goes Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:48:53 Message Number 905 %Message Deleted on Account of Good Taste =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: DONTHEN Subject: Executive 10/78 Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:50:13 Message Number 906 Yes, but I might be stealing back my VT-100 just for the sake of calling BBS's with it. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: SPELLWIND Subject: sigh... Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:51:30 Message Number 907 Good! Now I can give you copies of Novus Magnificot, Michael W Smith Project I and II, Simon and Garfunkel, and my Jeff Johnson CD's. Of course, if you want to get over your love-strickeness, I'll give you a copy of APP's Eve. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Beavers Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:53:44 Message Number 908 By the way, Corwyn, you forgot to match your parentheses. Sprinkle these at the end of your message:]}). Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUS Subject: auctions Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:54:56 Message Number 909 Oh, Rufus; you KNOW you enjoyed stripping your van to lug a one-ton computer. I mean, it really was a unique experience -- when was the LAST time you lugged a mainframe all through Sarasota? By the way, can we borrow your van once more? I just bought a second-hand Cray. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Present! Date & Time: 12/12/89 10:59:00 Message Number 910 Three religious experiences? Wow. I'm a rational mystic, myself -- I keep having mystical experiences, but I don't believe one of them. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: in Ham Center.. Date & Time: 12/12/89 11:00:05 Message Number 911 >I just hope it doesn't end up migrating over here like the last one >did. Sure. Right. We're really supposed to believe that? =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Mainframe II Date & Time: 12/12/89 11:03:56 Message Number 912 Dear Turtle, I wanna make an MS-DOS emulator for the mainframe! Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: DONTHEN To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Executive 10/78 Date & Time: 12/12/89 12:31:06 Message Number 914 You already have a VT-100 emulator. What do you need another one for? =========== From: RUFUS To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: auctions Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:45:10 Message Number 915 Yea..sure....go rot in a bog! =========== From: TURTLE To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: love! & stuff Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:48:53 Message Number 916 How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? This is one of the greater mysteries of Life. The answer, if you're interested, can be found engraved on a bronze tablet from the ancient Phoenician empire, now located at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, where it was cast to prevent it from falling into the hands of the barbarian invaders during the Great Tootsie Roll Collapse of about 1070 AD. By all means, feel free to go look. I, of course, know what it is, but I'm not going to tell you. --A guru Turtle Oh yeah--the answer on the tablet is, for some reason, in octal, not decimal. =========== From: TURTLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Anything Goes Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:55:18 Message Number 917 [%Message from SYSTEM] Your last program has been judged UNTASTEFUL by the TASTE monitor and automatically deleted. =========== From: TURTLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Mainframe II Date & Time: 12/12/89 15:57:15 Message Number 918 >I wanna make an MS-DOS emulator for the mainframe! You can be replaced. Now, tell me you're joking before I make you eat this here VT-100 keyboard... =========== From: KEN OBER To: ALL Subject: hi! Date & Time: 12/12/89 19:41:44 Message Number 919 Gee, have Iposted this here yet, well, just in case, I'm paunching a media blitz, so watch out! AARRRGGG! RUF! OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBB S De'ja' Vu? + ---------- O P Get A Grip Dude! U S Call: + U REMOTE CONTROL! B B The BBS So Cool That S + You Gotta' Wear Shades! O P (813) 378-2218 U S Sarasota, Florida + U 300/1200 Baud B B ULTIMATE 8-BIT SUPPORT! S + BS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS+QBBS+OPUS =========== From: KEN OBER To: ALL Subject: gee, Date & Time: 12/12/89 19:44:20 Message Number 920 The BBSreally butchered my message! And DONTHENand TURTLE complain that THEYcan'T dump THEIRbeffers on MY BBS....ARRRGGGG! -- An Annoyed Ken Ober <=- Generic Turtle Line =========== From: ROCKY To: CYBERPUNK Subject: well... Date & Time: 12/12/89 21:42:42 Message Number 922 yay. hoora. ba. humbug. =========== From: ROCKY To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Hail! Date & Time: 12/12/89 21:55:49 Message Number 923 Well, considering that you are STILL a representative of your kind, I feel that I should at least give you this, in your home-language, EVEN: "Winnie, Yip Wiiiine, winnnie yip pffffft winnie" (Long live the Unicorn!) =========== From: ROCKY To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: GameCon Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:01:05 Message Number 924 Well, I consider Pente a very challenging game. You are right, about Go-Moku being a more "Well-rounded" game, but there is a LOT of strategy involved. as for the first person having a definite advantage, BAH! You just have to know where to place your stone on your first move as the second to go. As you recall, the challenger gets the middle crosshair, automatically, and the next turn can be a move anywhere on the grid. Like I said, this can be to the second players advantage, depending on the placement of your stone. =========== From: ROCKY To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: glue Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:05:19 Message Number 925 Yeah, but unlike unicorns, they can't have there hooves made into glue, and there horn carved into wonderful figurines. So, what's the use of waiting that long? =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Me? Paranoid? Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:27:11 Message Number 926 I'm happy, I'm Happy! (pills, you say? Pills? what /kind/ of pills) - Corwyn (the accidental junkie) =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Beavers Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:31:45 Message Number 927 It's a standard practice.. throw a few extra in.. just for good measure. ... )}))}}]])}])]])}} and so on.. No, actually I finally got my editor, /not/ edwin.. to match parentheses.. thank god. It was acutally easier than trying to re-assign all of edwin's commands to sensible key-combos. Anyway.. we should be seeing a much saner Corwyn these days.. well relatively saner anyway. - Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Cray Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:35:31 Message Number 928 Hide your liquid nitrogen folks... - Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: TURTLE Subject: love! & stuff Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:37:42 Message Number 929 I'll be sure to check it out, next time I'm in the neighborhood, hmm.. how many digits do turtles have......? - Corwyn (Counting his own fingers.) =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: TURTLE Subject: Antisocial Modm Date & Time: 12/12/89 22:44:16 Message Number 930 From what you explained before.. my modem doesn't like returning 1200, (or 2400) baud carrier. BTW should I set my modem for Bell or CCITT V.22 compatibility.. Doesn't affect /this/ problem tho' I've tried it both ways. It started when happening only when I called here.. now every board I call, half the time I hear the initial beep (300 baud carrier) then nothing... AARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Help. =========== From: DONTHEN To: KEN OBER Subject: hi! Date & Time: 12/12/89 23:10:19 Message Number 931 Appears your terminal program and PBBS didn't get along all that well. /I've/ uploaded messages to Alter Reality, so it is possible, but it looks like the right edge got lost in translation. Incidentally, I have seen one or two extremely cool QBBS systems. It's not all that difficult (it has all the flexibility of Dragonfire coupled with, well, not having all the kludges of Dragonfire!), it's just that several sysops locally went out of their way to make it look boring. Incidentally, the Rendezvous (the prime example of What Not To Do With A QuickBBS) is down; Mike Talbert sold the entire set-up to somebody else, apparently without telling anyone ahead of time -- thus screwing up a lot of echos that were being routed through him. Ok, so you were right, he /was/ a bit of an asshole. (Sorry if there are any Rendezvous fans out there, but hey, cutting off the Hotline's echo feeds without any warning was dickish, no two ways about it.). Corwyn's board might be a good example of what to do with a QBBS system, although I haven't called it yet; Thoughts & Images in California is an incredible example of what you can do with QBBS if you put your mind to it. (Of course, T&I is switching to TBBS as soon as he gets the money, because QBBS is a bear to maintain and he wants to be able to go multiline. He will also be the /first/ multiline TBBS in the country to be completely free, so all those people who thought John Zimmermann was nuts for charging access to his multiline board should be aware he had lots of company. In fact, nobody I've talked to, including sysops on GEnie, is aware of /any/ multiline board that doesn't have at least a one-time access fee--at least none that stayed up for very long. Most of them didn't sell their computer and go underground like Zimmermann did, but that's another kettle of donuts entirely... :) ) =========== From: DONTHEN To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Antisocial Modm Date & Time: 12/12/89 23:18:47 Message Number 932 Standard protocols are V.22 for 2400 bps and Bell ...? 212 for 1200. V.22 for 1200 is used occasionally, but not in this country. Some modems are simply picky about different signals; the modem Turtle is using for this board is usually extremely nice about connecting with anything remotely resembling a carrier (I know, it was my modem and still is when I'm in a really bad mood because the modem I'm using is broken, even though Turtle doesn't see it that way), but it's possible yours just isn't... =========== From: TURTLE To: KEN OBER Subject: gee, Date & Time: 12/13/89 04:18:57 Message Number 933 All you need to do is delay briefly between lines (rather than between characters, as on certain systems...) If your terminal program is capable of it, tell it to look for a ":" prompt before sending each line... --A generic Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: love! & stuff Date & Time: 12/13/89 04:22:18 Message Number 934 >How many digits do turtles have? Eight! Three fingers and an opposing thumb on each hand. Although this particular Turtle has twenty-five; his lucky number is 3271225497265020071970960 (Twenty-five...the number of digits in his lucky number...get it?) --An unlucky Turtle (It doesn't come up very often, but when it does, I have the most AMAZING luck!) =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ROCKY Subject: well... Date & Time: 12/13/89 07:06:17 Message Number 935 ...what's wrong with you? =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ALL!! Subject: santa Date & Time: 12/13/89 07:07:07 Message Number 936 MERRY X X M M M AAAAA SSSSS X X M MMM M A A S X X MM MM AAAAA SSSSS X ------ M M A A S X X M M A A SSSSS X X X X oops, the M is upside down!!! oh well *Cy* =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: TURTLE Subject: love! & stuff Date & Time: 12/13/89 13:38:14 Message Number 937 I didn't think turtles had luck..... just patience... You learn something every day. - Corwyn (Going back over all his Turtle lore) =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: ALL Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/13/89 13:43:19 Message Number 938 Is anybody out there using a Dvorak keyboard. I've got a couple of keyboard re-mappers.. and two of them have Dvorak layouts.. I (masochist that I am) decided to try it out.. I made myself type "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." ect.. and even though I've been /really/ touch typing for about three years on Qwerty keyboard -'s I was surprised at how easy a lot of the typing was. It just seemed a lot more logical to use. The Qwert layout was actually designed to slow typists up, and prevent typewriters from jamming... but this layout seems /so/ superior I'm surprised that it's efficiency hasn't won out over qwerty's popularity. Do many professional secrataries use the layaout? Hmm I wonder... Of courst I type this not on my old layout not Dvorak.. I don't learn that quickly... (as he rambles on, and on, and on, and on, smack! <- stop that) - Corwyn =========== From: QTIP To: TURTLE Subject: Mainframe II Date & Time: 12/13/89 16:10:49 Message Number 939 Hey, Turtle, the backspace is really a backspace AFTER alt-1 and ctrl-H combination.. You know what that does but I only know that it works!! Got a magazine address for you that's filled with surplus electronic everything. Lots of computer sections and systems that the government and companys use then discard for little or nothing. the name of the place is: Herbach & Rademan Company 401 E. Erie Ave Phildelphia, Pa. 19134 Phone 215-426-1708 Fax 215-425-8870 They're big on motors, transformers, robotic miscellaneous, computer stuff of all sorts. Are you going to the lunchen at El Cressent --- or whatever it's called? If you are I'll try to bring a catelogue with me. I also have a less elaborate version of that program we tried to upload the other day. It's shareware and certain files are requested to be included but knowing what the parameters are now we can try it again. I'll have to get ready first though. Taking a few days off so I'll be playing on this thing quite a bit. Hope to converse with you more later. Had fun the other night. Hop Hop =========== From: QTIP To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Mystic Exper.. Date & Time: 12/13/89 16:26:35 Message Number 940 Well, if you keep having these experiences,...does it ring a bell.... like "Behold, I stand at the door and knock........" Don't get me wrong, I'm not thumping and there is no pushing a particular opinion 'cause I had my opinions for many years and am not complaining about what others voice. Tis a free and luckily informative land in which we live. ......No animasity. We'll just keep hippity hoppin along. have a nice day and a very MERRY CHRISTMAS Hop Hop =========== From: TURTLE To: CYBERPUNK Subject: Nuttin' Much Date & Time: 12/13/89 18:37:46 Message Number 941 HA! I dialate my pupils in your general direction, you nearsighted aardvark! Just thought it needed to be said. Never mind... =========== From: CRYSTAL To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Mainframes Date & Time: 12/13/89 19:46:07 Message Number 942 Relax Chip, and all of you others, that thought I was going to kill Turtle when I got home. I did not harm a hair on his reptilian skin. I did what any woman would do in a situation such as mine. I bought more shelving. I love my Turtle. The more I think about it, I am glad he dosn't collect lint under neath couches. * CRYSTAL * =========== From: RUFUS To: ALL Subject: Thursday Date & Time: 12/13/89 22:49:58 Message Number 944 Thursday are really useless. There's never been anything special about 'em. Rarely does anything exciting happen. Just what purpose do they serve? There's nothing good on TV on Thursdays ( or Friday-Wednesday either ) except for Mission: Impossible which I watch for no reason. Of course, if they keep up with the really far out stuff, then I could go back to the usual toe nail clipping collectors club. =========== From: DONTHEN To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/14/89 12:12:34 Message Number 946 The fastest typists in the world are on Dvorak keyboards, not the standard "QWERTY" type. However, since QWERTY was the first one to become widely popular and had several big companies pushing it back when typewriters were curiosities rather than accepted business tools, it became the standard. The only personal computer I know of that has a standard Dvorak layout is the Apple //c, which has a switch to toggle between QWERTY and Dvorak modes. =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: DONTHEN Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/14/89 16:34:05 Message Number 947 What would be nice, is a keyboard which has the keyboard letters in the Dvorak layout... or one w/ removeable keycaps - that can be /put/ in a Dvorak keyboard layout. Unforutately, my keyboard is neither, so either I learn the Dvorak layout /quick/ or give up the idea. - Corwyn =========== From: BEATLE To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: sigh... Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:03:35 Message Number 949 Oh crap! =========== From: BEATLE To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX Subject: animation Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:05:08 Message Number 950 Ooooooohhh.... pirated tapes! heheh....Where did ya get an illegal copy of "101 Dalmations"?? =========== From: BEATLE To: BARTHOLOMEW FOX Subject: Disney Releases Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:06:18 Message Number 951 "The Fox and the Hound" isn't as popular as some Disney movies,but, it might be released. =========== From: BEATLE To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Wizard Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:11:35 Message Number 952 For those of you who are looking for "Wizard" STOP. It's "Wizards"... =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: BEATLE Subject: Wizard Date & Time: 12/14/89 19:34:22 Message Number 953 Close enough.. hopefully people aren't that stupid (like I am) - Corwyn =========== From: RUFUS To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/14/89 21:24:46 Message Number 954 You could always repaint the letters on your keyboard. I know someone who learned the keyboard by putting white out over groups of letters, so they were forced to learn where the keys were. I'm just a two finger typer. =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: RUFUS Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/15/89 13:51:22 Message Number 957 But who wants adhesive or (white out?! <- you're kidding, right?) on you keyboard? Not this typist. - Corywn =========== From: RUFUS To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/15/89 16:41:01 Message Number 959 Nope, I'm not kidding about the whiteout. Of course it was a C-64 keyboard, so it couldn't have gotten much worse. :) =========== From: KEN OBER To: DONTHEN Subject: And Fish! Date & Time: 12/15/89 18:01:08 Message Number 961 Well, wanna'meet the author of DragonFire in person? He's coming down to Lakeland for a weekend in Feb., 'cause /most/ of the DragonFire BBSes run in the Central Florida area....anyways, there is some party going on or something, and he has lots of money to waste...ssooo... he's comming down....anyways, Ijust thoiught it'd bee neet-o if U, me, Turtle, and anyone else who wanted to rag on him could go...it'd be fun! Maybe Sauron could go along too! I'm sure he has some jkind words! hehehhhe C-'Ya! -KKKEEENNN OOOBBBEEERRR REMOTE CONTROL! #1 - 378-2218 - 300/1200 Baud =========== From: KEN OBER To: TURTLE Subject: hhmmm... Date & Time: 12/15/89 18:03:57 Message Number 962 Odd, i was sening it at the slowest speed availible--directly off of disk, and that is REAL slow! Ican even buffer a message and send it to a DragonFire board that way! ANyways...HO HUM! Maybe Ican slow it down even more by reading the file off of the 1541...or Icould pull out this tape drive here.... hehehhehe =========== From: KEN OBER To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: HA! Date & Time: 12/15/89 18:07:26 Message Number 963 Ican pop the letters off MYkeyboard!! HA! Neet-o, eh? When Iwas in typing class, a friend of mine who has a 128D and was also in the same class took off all the keys and mixed them up so he'd /HAVE/ to memorize the keyboard....worked well for him, he had 58 WPM at the end of the year.... (If anyone is wondering, Ihave 52 by the end of the year, Ibelieve, but that's on a /standard/ typewritter keyboard, the 128 layout is /quite/ different from the norm., but i'm getting used to it... =========== From: RAVEN To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/15/89 21:10:45 Message Number 965 Eye, Cap'n, t'wood. But me thinks dat it may damage a tirPerhaps shooting it would suffice? (Or mayhap dropping a Ohio on it?) =========== From: RAVEN To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: auctions Date & Time: 12/15/89 21:15:16 Message Number 966 Really??????? Where????? \/\/\/ Oh, by the by, we need to fin an OS for the ohio (I would _Really_ like to see what that machine does), any ideas? =========== From: RAVEN To: CRYSTAL Subject: Mainframes Date & Time: 12/15/89 21:20:39 Message Number 967 At least one of the various housemates has a high level of tolerance, B. looks like she wants to kill me when I think of adding a new toy to the stack. \/- =========== From: CHAS To: ALL Subject: Social Concern Date & Time: 12/15/89 22:03:02 Message Number 968 Every eighteen minutes a woman is beat up... ...and she's getting pissed off... =========== From: CHAS To: ALL Subject: picnick Date & Time: 12/15/89 22:03:56 Message Number 969 TOMORROW! 11 AM to 2 PM, at Le Croissant, Sarasota (Main St.)...lots of giveaways (good stuff!!), and great conversation !!!! =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: RUFUS Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/15/89 22:58:21 Message Number 970 <-- that's really funny, I was going to ask you: "please tell me it was a commodere keyboard, so it was no real loss" God, who /designed/ those things? I don't understand how people type on them at all. -Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: KEN OBER Subject: HA! Date & Time: 12/15/89 23:02:54 Message Number 971 True blue IBM keyboards have removable keycaps (or did anyway) --- but that's about all good you can say about Big Blue.. The keyboards also managed to weigh almost eight pounds I beleive. (Must be that lead plating to prevent electrolosis.) Hey Turtle.. what kink of keyboards, do OnSystems computers come with... is it equally indestructible to the motherboard.. (probably be quite a feat).. anyway, looking at the keys isn't all bad for the first few days... it's that or look at a chart, if you simply /don't/ know where the key is. And it would be those first few days I'd have to get through... mayber after Christmas when I won't have typed on a QWERTY keyboard in about a month.. should make switching easier. - Corwyn =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: CHAS Subject: Social Concern Date & Time: 12/15/89 23:09:39 Message Number 972 They should take kung-fu and beat them back! No I /don't/ mean harmon- ize with them, I mean /hit/ back. Course then you get escalation.. but nothings perfect..... - Corwyn (If you understood that, seek help now!) =========== From: CORWYN OF AMBER To: TURTLE Subject: Asm.. Date & Time: 12/15/89 23:12:43 Message Number 973 Whhoooopppeeee!!!! - I got the fossil to talk to me... now I just need to figure out how to declare a buffer area to put all the characters I recieved from the modem. Any ideas on how 8086 asm would do that? Or just what exactly you're doing at all... I'd be more specific, but I don't really know what to be more specific about... Maybe trying to pick up assembly language in one day, on no sleep isn't such a great idea anyway.. it /seemed/ like a good idea at the time... perfectly l logical.. of course! - Corwyn =========== From: TURTLE To: KEN OBER Subject: hhmmm... Date & Time: 12/16/89 02:36:09 Message Number 974 You can upload to the message base at full 1200 baud, as long as you pause between lines. (DragonFire won't let you send anything at full speed.) What you should do, if your term program is capable of it, is either send the file line by line with a pause at the end of each line, or send it line by line and have the term program wait for a ":" character (since PBBS puts one after every line number) before sending each line. =========== From: TURTLE To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Asm.. Date & Time: 12/16/89 02:40:40 Message Number 975 In assembly (8086 or otherwise) you don't "declare" a buffer, you just pick a spot in memory that you know isn't being used for anything and put the characters there. The memory address immediately following the end of the program is usually a good choice; pick a register, point it there, and every time a character comes in put it in the byte addressed by the register and increment the register. Is simple, no? To read a byte, pull it off the first address in the buffer, move the remaining buffer down one byte, and decrement the register. Is trivial, really... (he he he) --An assembly wizard Turtle =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Anything Goes Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:53:14 Message Number 979 [%Message from USER 007MSTF] The TASTE monitor can go lick itself. I want my message back. =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: ROCKY Subject: Hail! Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:54:51 Message Number 980 You misspelled pffft. pffffft, which you wrote, doesn't make sense. A linguist unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: ROCKY Subject: GameCon Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:56:02 Message Number 981 Dear Rocky, I'll take you up on that sometime... best four out of seven? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: ROCKY Subject: glue Date & Time: 12/16/89 03:56:52 Message Number 982 What's the use of waiting that long? You mean God doesn't have a seven-year money back guarentee, like some car companies? Sheesh... Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: QTIP Subject: Mystic Exper.. Date & Time: 12/16/89 04:01:18 Message Number 983 Naaah... nothing that simple. Four creatures, that looked kinda like men, but each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight; their feet like polished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left each had the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. yarg! yarg! yarg! Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RAVEN Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/16/89 04:07:12 Message Number 984 Well, my fine feathered friend; welcome back! (Lacking the arms to give a decent hug, I rub your feathered chest with my muzzle.) Looks like you finally got one of your machines to run with one of your modems, eh? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: RAVEN To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: life Date & Time: 12/16/89 09:25:52 Message Number 985 Aye! Me Losing Edge is _finally_ running again. Hope I see U in a short time, Have a few ideas to run by you off line. You are getting damn difficult to reach lately. =========== From: PINEAPPLE LEE To: PSYCHE Subject: It's almost lik Date & Time: 12/16/89 10:24:36 Message Number 990 It's almost like a drug.....sniffffffffffff....... Well, when I get to work it's more important to read my mail than to answer the phone...Ring...Ring..Ring... Well anyway "hey"...see ya =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject: Well... Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:20:10 Message Number 991 The pathetic sux-a-lux/2 (PS/2 for short) drive is still having problems living with my system...the drive is too slow, the operating system is too fast, and well, have you ever heard of premature...well, never mind. Anyway, the upshot of all this is that I've had to slow down disk access /again/, and as a result message reading is now going to be slower than ever (new! improved! slower than ever before! Kind of like Micro Channel, you see...) Anyway, if you're waiting for, oh, seven or eight minutes to read your messages, well, that's why. Thank you, and have a nice day. :) --A sssslllloooowwww Turtle =========== From: DONTHEN To: KEN OBER Subject: And Fish! Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:36:14 Message Number 992 Well, meeting him could be INTERESTING, for lack of a better word. No, seriously, it might be fun. Especially if either PBBS 3.0 or FOX gets written before then... =========== From: DONTHEN To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: Those wrd keybs Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:38:50 Message Number 993 That's true. The 128 keyboard has a nice feel, but it has, what, three keys between the semicolon and the RETURN button! I can deal with one in the way, but that arrangement drives me up the wall... =========== From: DONTHEN To: TURTLE Subject: Asm.. Date & Time: 12/16/89 14:41:10 Message Number 994 > To read a byte, pull it off the first address in the buffer, move the > remaining buffer down one byte, and decrement the register. That would screw things all to hell; the buffer is still in the same place, but the 2nd byte has become the first, the 3rd the 2nd, etc., and you just changed the pointer to point at one byte below the buffer. What people with working brain cells do is point something at the start of the buffer (i.e., a register), read the first byte, do something with it, and then INCREMENT the pointer and keep reading the bytes until you get to the end. Doing it by moving the entire buffer would work if you kept reading the byte at the buffer's bottom -- it would, in effect, be doing the same thing -- but you'd have to know how big the buffer was to start with, which isn't always possible, and it'd be a lot slower and potentially a great deal more complicated (it'd already add overhead if you use LDIR--what if you're using a CPU without block moves?). You know all of this already, so where'd you come up with that tripe? Wakey wakey, Mr. Toitle. =========== From: KEN OBER To: TURTLE Subject: hhmmm... Date & Time: 12/16/89 23:30:20 Message Number 995 Well, my pro-128-term can't do that, but DESTERM may be able to... But it isn'T THAT Important to force me to use desterm! hehehhehe =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RAVEN Subject: life Date & Time: 12/16/89 23:47:35 Message Number 996 Awqk! Awqk! Nevermore! 1. Comgratulations on gettin the Leading Edge running. 2. Ideas? Love to hear them... 3. Damn difficult to reach? Well, sorrrrrrry! (Yeah, we need to get together sometime, when the two of us are able to talk.) Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Well... Date & Time: 12/16/89 23:51:15 Message Number 997 I KNEW there was a reason why I shouldn't log on to a board run by a Sysop named Turtle... Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: TURTLE To: DONTHEN Subject: Asm.. Date & Time: 12/17/89 00:29:34 Message Number 998 >...moving the entire buffer would work if you kept reading the byte at >the buffer's bottom... Um, ahem, that's what I said... >Read the byte at the first address of the buffer... And OF COURSE you know how big the buffer is. It's the difference between the pointer and the first byte in the buffer. =========== From: RUFUS To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/17/89 19:27:27 Message Number 1002 Amazing, this h-a-r-d d-r-i-v-e is not to l-o-u-d. Wow. It still s-q-u-e-e-k-s every now and then. =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: Intro Date & Time: 12/18/89 08:00:39 Message Number 1003 Isn't saying "ugly polyester" like saying "big whale." I know there's a word for that, but seeing how it's 8 a.m., I can't think of it. Oh well, I'm going back to bed, and this HD isn't screamin' at me. Is this man good, or is this man EviL? Ribbit... =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: RUFUS Subject: Intro Date & Time: 12/18/89 16:19:06 Message Number 1005 >Is this man good, or is this man EviL? If you're referring to Mr. Snyde ("Hiya, Mr. Snyde!" -- smiling at the plant that's been inching over to hear our conversation.), neither applies to him. The government has begun an in-depth commision to answer that question; it will only cost our taxpayers $10 million. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: * Date & Time: 12/18/89 17:01:13 Message Number 1006 >Is this man good, or is this man EviL? I dunno, Mr. Mikey; I seem to have lost the ability to differentiate. I frequently blow up innocent cows with a large cannon, and chase them about my living room with an axe. That's why I work for the U.S. Government. (Of course, it also helps that I have the IQ of a brain- damaged rabbit; that's why the guy I'm tapping keeps getting muting failures that screw up his connection. There's two buttons on this thing, see, and I keep pushing the wrong one...) =========== From: RUFUS To: ALL Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/18/89 17:56:52 Message Number 1007 So, anyone catch the Simpson special last night. I have to give it a thumbs up. I heard it will be aired again on the 23rd. And the "Married...with Children" special was also good. =========== From: PSYCHE To: RAVEN Subject: Aye! Date & Time: 12/18/89 23:01:19 Message Number 1008 My God! You can BBS once again! Not to say that I have ever had the pleasure of conversing with you over such things before... Anyway, congratulations on getting your system(s?) up, and let's get together and play some p..l sometime (sneaky, ain't I?) =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/19/89 01:15:17 Message Number 1009 Yep, I'd have to agree...got both of 'em on videotape, in fact. =========== From: MIKI To: TURTLE Subject: Dumb reptiles Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:38:44 Message Number 1010 since i'm new around here i have no complaints. what kind, sort, rank o f social issues are being waved around? i mean now you've got me scared. where are these guys with the dark glasses, etc. dare i say what's really on my mind or will they come for me in the middle of the night and drag me away to neanderthal land? talk to me..... =========== From: MIKI To: TURTLE Subject: sympathy Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:41:59 Message Number 1011 oh goody, i got in on the ground floor. i'll be back but i'm kinda tired myself right now. the gabber =========== From: TURTLE To: MIKI Subject: Dumb reptiles Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:47:10 Message Number 1012 Greetings! Welcome aboard! Run into you a few times on the gossip echo, glad you finally decided to call! Pity it wasn't a couple of minutes later, though; I'd have been around for chatting... Anyway, at the moment there's not a whole lot going on in the Social Issues department. In the Men With Dark Glasses department, well, my phone line is being monitored by a person or persons unknown, presumably because somebody somewhere believes I'm a sub- versive element who's damaging our children. Oh well. Presumably nobody's going to knock on your door and drag you off by the heels...I mean, gosh, things like that are only supposed to happen in those Commie countries, right? Of course, you'd think that things like incessant phone bugging is only supposed to happen in those Commie countries, too, but that's a kettle of donuts of a different color... =========== From: TURTLE To: MIKI Subject: sympathy Date & Time: 12/19/89 02:53:07 Message Number 1013 Yikes! I gotta start deleting old messages...*yawn* =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/19/89 10:12:51 Message Number 1014 The Simpsons ranks up there with "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" and the really weird "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" narrated by Burl Ives. =========== From: SAURON To: CORWYN OF AMBER Subject: catchy slogans Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:36:20 Message Number 1015 Close minded (sic) my ass! What do you want - flaming rhetoric, fiery fists, or blazing pistols at 50 feet? Your choice. =========== From: SAURON To: TURTLE Subject: sigh... Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:40:23 Message Number 1016 Love: Six bucs Senor...Carmen (Tijuana) =========== From: SAURON To: TURTLE Subject: sigh... Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:45:18 Message Number 1017 Neil Diamond ----Stephen King...no one likes pop success. =========== From: SAURON To: TURTLE Subject: Life Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:49:46 Message Number 1018 Beer - it's only redeeming quality is that it contains alcohol...and it keeps ethnic Germans from drinking anything better. =========== From: SAURON To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: catchy slogans Date & Time: 12/19/89 20:54:05 Message Number 1019 How much levity would you have if it was YOUR face being torn from your neck, and your life's-blood pumping into a vacuum device? =========== From: RAVEN To: TURTLE Subject: Well... Date & Time: 12/19/89 21:41:59 Message Number 1020 So, how about another one? \/\/\/\/\/ \/- =========== From: RAVEN To: RUFUS Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/19/89 21:44:03 Message Number 1021 SO LEMME AT IT!!!!! JUST HAND IT TO DONTHEN, It should (i think) be quieter afterwords. If not we can always silence it for you...... =========== From: RAVEN To: PSYCHE Subject: Aye! Date & Time: 12/19/89 21:46:57 Message Number 1022 How about this weekend? On campus as my budget is a bit short at the moment. \/- =========== From: ASTRAL PRINCESS To: SAURON Subject: . Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:32:10 Message Number 1024 I just wanted to say to everyone: DO not FEAR ASTRAL is here. Now you can all feel better. =========== From: ASTRAL PRINCESS To: MIKI Subject: HI! Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:33:30 Message Number 1025 HI! Nice to see you online here! =========== From: ASTRAL PRINCESS To: RUFUS Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:34:55 Message Number 1026 Aren't you meant to kick a squeaky hard drive? I will buy you some oil for Christmas, to pour on it. Might help? Meanwhile, feliz navidad! =========== From: BEATLE To: RUFUS Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/19/89 22:58:15 Message Number 1028 Simpsons Special- THUMBS UP! Yes, it will be aired again the 23rd AND, The Simpsons will leave Tracey Ullman (or did they already?) BUt they will get THEIR~ OWN SERIES! Married...With Children special- Very good, missed the ending. Seemed like the first half hour was an episode all to itself. I was expecting the WHOLE episode to be about the guardian angel thing. Plenty of written oportunities for Kinison to YELL, which annoys me!! leave it out !!!!! =========== From: BEATLE To: SAURON Subject: sigh... Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:02:28 Message Number 1029 >>Neil Diamond ----Stephen King...no one likes pop success. What does that mean. I suppose I skipped reading a message (or two) somewhere... =========== From: TURTLE To: RAVEN Subject: Well... Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:32:11 Message Number 1030 >So, how about another one? Well, if you've got one kicking around...it'd sure make my life easier when I do a system backup. As it stands now, with only one 3.5" drive, making a copy of the message disk involves a /lot/ of disk swapping... =========== From: TURTLE To: ASTRAL PRINCESS Subject: * Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:34:30 Message Number 1031 Welcome aboard! Happy to see you here. We can always use fresh faces 'round these parts, particularly those that don't go running in terror the first time they log on and notice there's well over a thousand messages in the message base...watched a couple of greenhorns do that last night, in fact. Anyway, glad you could stop over; hope you'll be doing so fairly often in the future... =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: MIKI Subject: Dumb reptiles Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:49:09 Message Number 1032 Dear Miki, First of all, tapping is ILLEGAL for the government to do without a court OK. Secondly, if they have asked the court about a permit to tap (which I sincerely doubt!), they need to say what, specifically they are looking for. Unless you are typing messages about hacking, pirating, or phreaking, I doubt you'd be sent off to Neanderthal land. Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: Dumb reptiles Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:51:33 Message Number 1033 >...because somebody somewhere believes I'm a subversive element >who's damaging our children... But, Turtle! You ARE a subversive element! You dare stand for the one thing government cannot stand: reason... Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: SAURON Subject: catchy slogans Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:54:36 Message Number 1034 Dear Sauron, As I've said, abortion is the worst method of birth control. I, personally, hope that in the future it will NOT be necessary -- that everyone in the future will be well enough educated in methods of birth control that no unwanted children occur. I'm hoping that scientists will develop another 'pill' with fewer side effects. In the meanwhile, what are your views on capital punishment? Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: ASTRAL PRINCESS Subject: . Date & Time: 12/19/89 23:58:11 Message Number 1035 Quick! Head for the hills! Astral Princess has arrived on aLTER rEALITY! If you escape now, you won't be done in by her vile schemes! Ignore her beautiful face; don't gaze at her french toast; she has seduced hundreds, leaving only lifeless husks behind... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! Chip P. Unicorn =========== From: CHIP P. UNICORN To: TURTLE Subject: ... Date & Time: 12/20/89 00:02:15 Message Number 1036 By the way, you should be a writer. =========== From: PSYCHE To: RAVEN Subject: Aye! Date & Time: 12/20/89 02:02:57 Message Number 1037 Why not? On the other hand, we've yet to go to Livingston's or the GALLERY. We really should sometime (maybe with Tad); we might as well, however, make use of Ham Center while nobody's around. Remind me to take you to one of the aforementioned classy joint, though. =========== From: RUFUS To: RAVEN Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/20/89 09:27:38 Message Number 1038 I dunno if I trust Donthen with it. He may decide to hook it up to his computer and not give it back to me. I'll pop in at Donthen's one day and let him have it. =========== From: RUFUS To: ASTRAL PRINCESS Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/20/89 09:28:58 Message Number 1039 I've done everything short of kicking it. Actually, Raven is going to oil it if he ever gets his hands on it Feliz Navidad...no spanish, spanish bad...very evil....ack, help! =========== From: RUFUS To: BEATLE Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/20/89 09:30:26 Message Number 1040 Their own series?! Yippie... I agree that he got the chance to yell quite a few times, but it was still pretty good. =========== From: TURTLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Dumb reptiles Date & Time: 12/20/89 15:52:57 Message Number 1042 >Unless you are typing messages about hacking, pirating, or phreaking, >I doubt you'd be sent off to Neanderthal land. You know, that reminds me, I was hacking this pirate once, and the little phreak ran away! I was so pissed I dropped my French toast. --A hacker Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Bad reptiles Date & Time: 12/20/89 15:54:42 Message Number 1043 >But Turtle! You ARE a subversive element! Oh yeah...I forgot. You know, that reminds me of this time I was on this dangerous assignment for the CIA, and these KGB guys were on to me, so I convinced them I was with the NVPD, which would have worked except that they had a contact in the FBI who told them I was a charter member of the NAACP and was UL listed, to boot, so they got out their NRA specials (NYFD C of A #12290) and KO'd this IBM VIP and...well, never mind. --An SOL Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: catchy slogans Date & Time: 12/20/89 15:59:17 Message Number 1044 >I'm hoping that scientists will develop another 'pill' with fewer >side effects. And that it'll get FDA approval, presumably. How about RU-426? Works the same way ordinary oral contraceptives do, can be used a few weeks after conception to prevent the zygote from attaching to the uterine wall, and to date has no known serious side-effects. I defy you to even TRY to get it approved over here. =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/20/89 16:02:56 Message Number 1045 >...he got the chance to yell quite a few times, but it was still pretty >good. Actually, two of those yells were really funny...the one where he meets Al Bundy and screams "Nooooooo!" at the heavens, and the other at the very end, when he's trying to get back into heaven and finds that they've lost his luggage..."AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!" All in all, it was a /really/ funny episode. =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/20/89 19:46:15 Message Number 1046 There's nothing wrong with yelling, just to much yelling is bad ( unless it's some boring class, where a small riot with lotsa yelling is welcome ). Arrgh..there I go again, babbling away. So, when's SCVM get down here? =========== From: BEATLE To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: Tapping Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:19:06 Message Number 1047 From what I was told, operating a BBS constitutes a suficient reason to monitor your phone line, so the courts would just give the warrant or whatever and let them tap away... =========== From: BEATLE To: TURTLE Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:22:43 Message Number 1048 Yes, but did you ever notice that Kinison was doing a stand-up yelling routine? If he looked up a bit more and looked more convincing, I would take the yelling. Oh well, can't have everything, can we? At least he wasn't censored like the time he was on Letterman... =========== From: BEATLE To: ALL Subject: Solar Shades! Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:25:10 Message Number 1049 I dunno about you, but I like these Pizza Hut things! Yes, they are worth the two bucks. They look neat and even protect your eyes from those damn awful UV rays! I also liked Back to the Future Part II, so I just HAD to get a pair of the glasses! I got the round ones. Anyone else get the Solar Shades?? =========== From: RAVEN To: PSYCHE Subject: Aye! Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:38:13 Message Number 1051 Already made it to the gallery w. Tad & Chip, give me a call thursday or friday ... Livingston's might be good. -R- =========== From: RAVEN To: RUFUS Subject: ChristmasCon Date & Time: 12/20/89 22:40:32 Message Number 1052 O'Tay Cap'n 'ope t' see ya soon -R- =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/21/89 02:10:38 Message Number 1054 >So, when's SCVM get down here? Well, actually, he's not. I talked to him about 3 days ago; evidently he has some sort of job lined up elsewhere, or MAY have some sort of job lined up elsewhere, or some such thing. At any rate, the upshot of all of that is he isn't planning on coming down here any time in the forseeable future. Kind of disappointing, really...he is nothing if not an interesting person... --A tired Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject: Now Available Date & Time: 12/21/89 03:44:48 Message Number 1055 For your downloading pleasure, a brief thumbnail sketch of the Vengeance Computing PC-Z, one of the most interesting new personal computers to come down the pike in decades. It's a really brief file, and doesn't explain any of the proposed upgrades to the system, but nevertheless makes for interesting reading. Check it out! And remember: Down with IBM! Down with IBM! Down with IBM! May they drown in a sea of corporate profit death and badly designed, slow personal computers!!! =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/21/89 08:05:04 Message Number 1056 Gee, that just makes my already depressed self, even more depressed. On another note, it seems almost everytime ( 90% ) I call here or the Den, you were the last caller, or I was the first called since rebooting the system. Oh well...I'm going to do my shopping now. It's to early, it'll be crowded, and I'll be gone for who knows how long when I can have my shopping done in about 45 mins. Such is life....... =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/21/89 12:17:58 Message Number 1057 >It seems almost everytime...I call here or the Den, you were the last >caller... Hmm. I don't generally call the Den or this board more than about once a day. I've been on this board quite a bit over the last couple of days, since I just got finished writing a new version of PBBSH (that's that "Last Caller Was:" routine, in fact) and doing a BIG system backup. Oh well. I guess you're just lucky... =========== From: CHARLES DITTELL To: TURTLE Subject: Thank you... Date & Time: 12/21/89 19:26:19 Message Number 1058 ...I know my secret is safe with you. BTW, when's the next Cell Meeting? . . . . . . . . (got that, PolyesterMan???) =========== From: CHARLES DITTELL To: SAURON Subject: Never Give Up.. Date & Time: 12/21/89 19:29:27 Message Number 1059 No - no restrictions (Federal Law) - all beings (even non-sentient) welcome!! BTW, when's the Snow Drop?? . . . . . . . . . . . (Got that, PolyesterMan???) =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: grrpt! Date & Time: 12/21/89 23:22:09 Message Number 1060 Lucky may not be the proper word. Anyways, ho ho ho. =========== From: RUFUS To: ANYONE Subject: Heavy Metal Date & Time: 12/21/89 09:37:45 Message Number 1061 Well, Heavy Metal is back at the midnight movies. Anyone wanna make plans to go Saturday night/Sunday morning? Actually, I dunno if I can go, but thought I'd ask. Oh yea, it's playing at Sarasota Square. Ribbit... =========== From: CYCLE To: TURTLE Subject: TECH TALK Date & Time: 12/21/89 16:35:50 Message Number 1062 What about us (scuse me) CPM drones =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: Heavy Metal Date & Time: 12/21/89 20:27:02 Message Number 1063 Hey! Sounds like a good idea...like, what's it cost to go? Saturday would be a good time to see it; Sunday I'm heading for Ft. Myers, and aLTER rEALITY will be on autopilot for a while... =========== From: BEATLE To: RUFUS Subject: Heavy Metal Date & Time: 12/21/89 22:36:51 Message Number 1064 It's also on Cinemax in February for all you collectors... =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: Heavy Metal Date & Time: 12/21/89 22:56:49 Message Number 1065 Gee, I'm not sure for Midnight movies. It shouldn't be over $4.50. We can stock up on Mountain Dew and donuts since AMC doesn't carry either. ( and if they did, it would be to expensive ) =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: HEAVY METAL Date & Time: 12/22/89 02:44:18 Message Number 1067 WELL, DUDE, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GIVE ME A CALL SOMETIME THIS SAT... CRYSTAL AND I WILL PROBABLY END UP GOING TO THE MIDNIGHT SHOW, EVEN THOU WE BOTH WATCHED IT ON VIDEOTAPE T_LAST WEEK... SORRY BOUT THE UPPERCASE, I'M TYPING THIS FROM AN AT&T UNIX MACHINE AT WORK... --A DOUBLE-SPACING TURTLE =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: HEAVY METAL Date & Time: 12/22/89 09:03:10 Message Number 1069 yea, well, I was going to leave you a message last night, but seeing how our friends at FiPiL denied us power for 2 hours, I couldn't. I was in the middle of that message when the power went phoomp ( yea, it actually went phoomp ). I'll see if the folks say O.K. and call back here before 5:30 p.m. ( you have my # if you need to call ) =========== From: MR. BUSTER To: PIRATES Subject: Heh, Heh... Date & Time: 12/22/89 15:00:53 Message Number 1070 Avast 'ye scurvy dog! I got a topic fer 'ye: What 'ya feel about hackin', phreakin' and krackin'? A topic I know I'm interested in! =========== From: TURTLE To: MR. BUSTER Subject: Heh, Heh... Date & Time: 12/22/89 17:34:20 Message Number 1072 From the looks of things, you, Sir, wouldn't know a hacker if one bit you on the ass. I have to wonder about a person who spells "cracking" "krackin'", in a public message on a bulletin board WHOSE LOGON SCREEN TELLS YOU THAT THIS PHONE LINE IS BEING MONITORED!! Quite frankly, Sir, I am amazed you can actually work a computer. It is gentlemen like you who give us REAL hackers a bad name. Have an amazingly pleasant day, Sir. =========== From: ROCKY To: EVERYONE! Subject: SNOW!!! Date & Time: 12/22/89 20:20:13 Message Number 1073 Well, I never believed I would actually see it, but as of RIGHT NOW Sat Dec. 23 at 8:20 PM it is SNOWING out side my door! Yes, here in Sarasota FL! The flakes are small, and not very well formed, but it IS only 8:00 with a promise of -10 degree wind chill factor for tonight here in this area. I hope that everyone around here gets to see the snow falling here, as it is a VERY rare happening, but it is expected to happen for several hours on into the early morning. Well, I'm going now to go watch it somemore, as this is the first time in my life that I have seen it snow here, this far south. Hope everyone sees it! =========== From: MR. BUSTER To: TURTLE Subject: Heh, Heh... Date & Time: 12/22/89 23:23:01 Message Number 1074 Well, first of all, nothing was meant to offend. 2nd: "Cracking" has two spellings, in the pirate world... 3rd: You cannot get arrested for talking about a subject, only if you partake in the subject being discussed. 4th: I am a Computer Science major at a rather reputable engineering school. Beleive me, unfortunetly I know what a hacker is... 5th: I'm sorry for being interested in a rather taboo subject. In my younger years I was very active and knew many a famous pirate, I was just wondering if there was anyone "active" around here... It would be interesting to hear some "stories". Don't worry, you won't get busted for just talking... I wanted to raise some eye-brows and I see I did!! Merry Christmas, - Mr. Buster =========== From: RUFUS To: ROCKY Subject: SNOW!!! Date & Time: 12/24/89 15:20:02 Message Number 1076 I saw it to. In fact, I collected enough snow to make a very small snow ball, which I used to hit my dad. Boy, if it woulda been any bigger, I coulda caused some real damage. My dad ( who's been here for 28+ years) says this is the most he's seen in Sarasota. I think it has snowed twice before in Sarasota. And to think Bart Fox went to Ohio for a white Christmas! =========== From: RAVEN To: RUFUS Subject: SNOW!!! Date & Time: 12/24/89 15:31:38 Message Number 1077 Me 'tinks ets time t' move further south. I moved here from Oregon, and as find this weather to be a pain in the ass. Cold & dry I like, Hot and either dry or humid is good, but this cold and humid crap is a real pain in the arse! (Oh, by the by, my grandmother, who grew up in Bradenton, did not believe that it was half their temperature here, and David Kone's jaw hit the ground when he called last night). A HEAVY sbowfall would have been wonderful (what would SRQ do w. it?); imagine all these people who have _never_ had to deal w. icy roads, and have problems w. wet ones. . . -R- =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject: Merry Xmas! Date & Time: 12/24/89 17:00:28 Message Number 1078 Well, I'm departing soon to go down to Fort Myers and do the "spend your Christmas with friends and family" thang, so the board will be on autopilot for a while. Anyway, have a good, if cold, wet, miserable, damp, SNOWY, freezing, gray, gloomy, dreary, grim, harsh, windy, chilly, wet, wretched, and not terribly sunny Christmas, y'all, and I'll be back in a few days! --A cold, wet, miserable, freezing, gray, gloomy Turtle =========== From: RUFUS To: RAVEN Subject: SNOW!!! Date & Time: 12/24/89 23:52:02 Message Number 1079 There are three types of weather I like: Cold and dry Hot and dry Hot, with a very heavy, nah, torrent like, rainfall! Anyways, Happy Vacationdays, and may the force ( = mass * Acceleration ) be with you. =========== From: RUFUS To: TURTLE Subject: Merry Xmas! Date & Time: 12/24/89 23:55:29 Message Number 1080 Well, Happy Holidays, and if you see this, when can I get my tape back? And I hope your BBS will set itself up if the power goes, cause FPL may or may not continue (sp?) with "Let' [ARG] ..."Let's have a blackout for a while." This morning, we had about 12 power outages within 5-6 minutes. I'm glad I didn't have my computer on or I woulda been really angry. Anyways, have fun, and I thought turtles liked wet weather? =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: ALL Subject: new bbs Date & Time: 12/26/89 10:17:17 Message Number 1081 hey guys, i finally got my bbs up!! call it!!! Damage Inc. BBS!! 813-371-0888 300/1200 baud!! call now.. sysop:Cyberpunk!! SEE-ya there!! Cy =========== From: ANGEL To: TURTLE Subject: RU-426 Date & Time: 12/27/89 00:40:18 Message Number 1085 >How about RU-426? Works the same way ordinary oral contraceptives do Actually, no. RU-426 needs to be administered with another drug to obtain high success rates (can't remember what the other one is, I'll look it up -- but THAT must be administered intravenously). Without the interaction of the other drug RU-426 has only about a 60% success rate. =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject:  Date & Time: 12/28/89 23:12:24 Message Number 1092 Well, All, it's been an interesting Christmas season. While busily unwrapping gifts and doing the Christmas dinner thing, I hope you all had time to reflect upon some of the finer points of Christmas, like: Why are all Christmas cards you see in Hallmark stores either trite or banal, or at worst can only aspire to triteness or banality? I swear, if I see one more card with the phrase "special friend," the words "Holiday cheer," "Yuletide cheer," or anything "Spirit," I'm going to scream and put the cat through the wall. Yeech! Shopping for Christmas cards is a nightmare. I am thinking of starting my own line of unorthodox, CREATIVE holiday greeting cards, Death To You All Enterprises, to combat the evil scourge of sappy holiday yeech. (Look for them wherever Bill the Cat stuffed toys are sold.) Our product line is, of course, confidential, but here's one guarantee: you won't see a fat man who plays with elves on any of 'em! --An annoyed-at-banality Turtle =========== From: TURTLE To: RUFUS Subject: Merry Xmas! Date & Time: 12/28/89 23:17:36 Message Number 1093 Well, sorry I took so long in replying to your last post; I've been out to lunch for the last several days. One at a time, from the top: >...when can I get my tape back? By all means, come over and pick it up. My car is dead; you see, it gallantly sacrificed its life to rescue this innocent young lady from these Hells' Angels bikers, and...well, no, I'm making that up. Actually it has a broken clutch. >I hope your BBS can set itself up if the power fails... Nope. Sure 'nuff, I came back the day after Christmas and the 'pooter was patiently waiting for someone to type in the date. If you called on Christmas and didn't get anything, well, it serves you right for calling on Christmas instead of digging for loot in the first place. Bleah. --A slow Turtle Hey, wanna buy a Volkswagen? =========== From: TURTLE To: THE UNENLIGHTENED Subject: Shining Path Date & Time: 12/28/89 23:22:13 Message Number 1094 As I sat upon a mountaintop these last few days, pondering the meaning of it all, it came to me in a dream...the Shining Path, the Road to Salvation, the Way of the Aardvark. Yes! My life, once dark and lost, is now filled with Meaning and Purpose. Truly is the blessed Way of the Aardvark the only road to spiritual enlightenment. Watch this space for more information... --A guru Turtle (c) 1989 Anarchy Now, Inc. Hey? What can I say? You've gotta love an animal that can stick its tongue down an anthill, and ants will stick to it but sand won't. I was impressed. =========== From: TURTLE To: ALL Subject: New files! Date & Time: 12/29/89 02:38:56 Message Number 1095 Now available in the aLTER rEALITY library: The Canonical Collection of Light Bulb Jokes, for your amusement; and Phrases.Txt, a large collection of assorted sayings and pithy quotes. Check 'em out! (Xmodem only, please; offer void in VA, VT, or any other state containing the letter "V." Thank you for your support.) =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: BEATLE Subject: sigh... Date & Time: 12/29/89 20:18:54 Message Number 1096 oh crap????? thats nice! Cy =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: CHIP P. UNICORN Subject: life Date & Time: 12/29/89 20:25:49 Message Number 1097 hey Chip, i'd like to ask you something.... what does Awqk mean and how do you pronounce it(it's in message #996) and what about Yarg??? it sounds like a pathetic way of saying puke!! hehehe just wondering!! Cy P.S. hey everyone, cal my bbs!!! Damage Inc. BBS!!! 300/1200 baud 813-371-0888!!!! Call Now =========== From: CYBERPUNK To: BEATLE Subject: Solar Shades! Date & Time: 12/29/89 20:37:05 Message Number 1098 you know, i saw the movie too, but i didn't see those damned solar shades anyware in the wholedamn movie!!! --- a frustrated Cy =========== From: TURTLE To: CYBERPUNK Subject: life Date & Time: 12/30/89 02:51:20 Message Number 1100 Well, I don't know about Awqk, but Yarg is a way of saying "The pre- ceeding flame is high in sarcasm and should not be taken seriously by members of Congress, the Moral Majority, or anybody else, for that matter." As in: Assembly is the only TRUE computer language! Real men use Assembly for everything! Anyone who would use anything else is a semi-intelligent putz who wouldn't know a real program if it bit him on the ass! People who use high-level languages are worthless and weak! People who WRITE high level languages are illiterate anal retentives who were potty trained at gunpoint! Assembly is best for /everything/! NO self- respecting person would EVER even CONSIDER using some wimpy inferior language! Yarg! Yarg! --A Websterian Turtle (By the way, I really do feel that way about Assembly...) ===========