[ale] Introduction and info about myself

[Scott Castaline]

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On 10/29/2012 10:57 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> YOU HAD A HAMMER? !? All I had was a piece of bacon and a wet
> match
> 
well with a wet match you definitely didn't have to worry about
burning the bacon.

> On Oct 29, 2012 10:51 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:skotchman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>> [mailto: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
> <mailto: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 once?well, 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
> 
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>> On 10/29/12 12:17 PM, "simontek at gmail.com
> <mailto:simontek at gmail.com>" <simontek at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:rfaulkner at tux86.org>> Sender:
> ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> Date: Mon, 29
>>> Oct 2012 13:09:45 To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<ale at ale.org
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org
> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> Subject: Re:
>>> [ale] Introduction and info about myself
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