Re: Re: Hello World!
By: candycane to MRO on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:58 pm

> Re: Re: Hello World!
> By: MRO to The Lizard Master on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:33 pm
>
> MR> nothing is correct in the english language. did you ever see
> MR> gallagher's act? ---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnipgv4cZM
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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Nightfox to candycane on Sun Jul 30 2023 04:29 pm

Ni> You haven't heard of Gallagher?
Ni> He's a comedian who was most active in the 80s, and part of his act was
Ni> often smashing watermelons (and sometimes other melons and vegetables).

Ni> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_(comedian)
Ni> https://youtu.be/ErppAlOIGQE

Me and my Ex loved him. Her parents had Showtime so we watched him whenver he was on. Geez.. that was a longtime ago.
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Re: Hello World!
By: GenFx to Dizzy on Thu Jul 27 2023 07:39 pm

> I always envied the BBS crowd and could never afford it back in the day lol

Huh? Most BBS's are free?

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:17 pm

> At the same time, I did have one or two friends who called it a few times. A
> there was one kid who I think even said he went to my high school, but I had
> met him in person. We played a lot of Doom over the modem in the summer of
> 1995
> though, sometimes until around 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning..

Yea.. Same thing here. I became very good friends with other SysOps. We would have user meets at the local Diner and Roller Rink. Before Doom we played Perfect General over the phone. It took some time before I could afford a PC that could run Doom. We played Castle Wolfenstein if anyone remembers that ;-)

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> DW> Hey, I remember that now! We had an OS/400 at the place I worked before

> is OS/400 a os? is it like OS/2?

Yes, sort of. I said we had an "OS/400," but that is not correct. The
machine is an IBM AS/400 and the OS it runs is OS/400. OS/400 is the
operating system that IBM designed for the AS/400 line.

The AS/400 is a line of machines used mostly by businesses, schools, and
government agencies that was a step or two below a mainframe. So it had a
lot more power than a desktop machine and allowed multiple users like a
mainframe.

I would not doubt that someone somewhere has managed to emulate OS/400
on a PC, like they have earlier mainframe OSes, but OS/400 is mostly going
to be found on AS/400 equipment, and the newer equipment that IBM created
to replace those machines.

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> > is OS/400 a os? is it like OS/2?
> > user generated from /dev/urandom

> i think he meant as400

I did indeed. ;) OS/400 is the operating system that runs on one.
1996 does not seem like that long ago, and yet it does.

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>True, I didn't mean to imply that "most kids" knew what a BBS or a sysop was.

>st kids (or people in general) did not know they existed. I should have said
I >and most users desired to become one."

I think my desire to become one stemmed from thinking that BBSes were neat and
also wanting to pull in more echo areas than were available locally. This
would have been 1988 where everything was still dial-up.

I also wanted to learn more about computers and that was a good way to
learn about DOS.

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: MRO to all on Mon Jul 31 2023 12:50 am

> Re: Re: Hello World!
> By: candycane to MRO on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:58 pm
>
> > Re: Re: Hello World!
> > By: MRO to The Lizard Master on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:33 pm
>
> > MR> nothing is correct in the english language. did you ever see
> > MR> gallagher's act? ---
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnipgv4cZM

I like this version of that skit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk

And George Carlin had a lot of good skits on English too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lEtj-MuMk
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Re: Hello World!
By: Hustler to GenFx on Mon Jul 31 2023 08:45 am

>> I always envied the BBS crowd and could never afford it back in the day lol

Hu> Huh? Most BBS's are free?

I thought he had meant being able to afford a computer & phone line to run a BBS, software registrations, etc..

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Mon Jul 31 2023 09:01 am

> > > is OS/400 a os? is it like OS/2?
> > > user generated from /dev/urandom
>
> > i think he meant as400
>
> I did indeed. ;) OS/400 is the operating system that runs on one.
> 1996 does not seem like that long ago, and yet it does.
>
>
> * SLMR 2.1a * Ensign Pillsbury? He's BREAD, Jim......

i miss as400. i still put it on my resume.
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> > I always envied the BBS crowd and could never afford it back in the day lol

> Huh? Most BBS's are free?

Maybe they couldn't afford the hardware or the long distance charges?

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-=> candycane wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

ca> is OS/400 a os? is it like OS/2?

OS/400 is the operating system run on old AS/400s. It's gone through
name changes, but that was the name back in the 90s.

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-=> Hustler wrote to GenFx <=-

Hu> Huh? Most BBS's are free?

Maybe they meant running a BBS? Having a dedicated computer and phone
line was expensive. I'm surprised I could justify having a phone line
for the BBS when I started out, as I wasn't making a lot back then. The
computer was a cast-off from work.

One benefit of running a BBS was being able to be on message networks
and collect files without having to call out and run the risk of LD
charges or ul/dl ratios. You could let the BBS do all the calling for
you, and people would upload files *to* you for a change!

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-=> MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

MR> i miss as400. i still put it on my resume.

I toyed around with making a BBS menu that looked like an OS/400
terminal screen.

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Tue Aug 01 2023 07:20 am

PF> -=> MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

MR>> i miss as400. i still put it on my resume.

PF> I toyed around with making a BBS menu that looked like an OS/400
PF> terminal screen.

PF> ... The Six who went among the makers is no longer.
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sounds super cool, can you send a scrshot?

candycane

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> > > > is OS/400 a os? is it like OS/2?
> > > > user generated from /dev/urandom
> >
> > > i think he meant as400
> >
> > I did indeed. ;) OS/400 is the operating system that runs on one.
> > 1996 does not seem like that long ago, and yet it does.
> >

> i miss as400. i still put it on my resume.

I have put it on mine also, even though my interactions with it were much
less than others in my shop. I was the primary operator of the "Baby/36"
and the other PC based system, both of which probably could have better
used the power of an AS400.

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Jul 31 2023 10:20 am

> Re: Re: Hello World!
> By: MRO to all on Mon Jul 31 2023 12:50 am
>
> > Re: Re: Hello World!
> > By: candycane to MRO on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:58 pm
>
> > > Re: Re: Hello World!
> > > By: MRO to The Lizard Master on Sun Jul 30 2023 03:33 pm
>
> > > MR> nothing is correct in the english language. did you ever see
> > > MR> gallagher's act? ---
>

> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnipgv4cZM
>
> I like this version of that skit better:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk
>
> And George Carlin had a lot of good skits on English too:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11lEtj-MuMk

gallagher was a real interesting guy. pbs had a biography on him and it really went deep into his childhood and young adult years. then it went into the trouble he had with his brother and it said his whole family sided with the brother. i can not find it online anywhere.
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Re: Hello World!
By: Hustler to GenFx on Mon Jul 31 2023 08:45:57

>
> Huh? Most BBS's are free?
>
True, I just meant the hardware and phone costs.
I was in rural Australia during that era so it was very hard to find people interested in computers and even just finding computers and accesories was difficult. Things got easier once IBM compatibles became mainstream.
Maybe it was just me, I really never felt comfortable talking to people and was just happy to talk to the computer.

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Re: Hello World!
By: Nightfox to Hustler on Mon Jul 31 2023 11:20:55

> I thought he had meant being able to afford a computer & phone line to run a
> BBS, software registrations, etc..
>
> Nightfox
>
yup ^^

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Aug 02 2023 08:22 pm

MR> gallagher was a real interesting guy. pbs had a biography on him and it
MR> really went deep into his childhood and young adult years. then it went
MR> into the trouble he had with his brother and it said his whole family
MR> sided with the brother. i can not find it online anywhere.

I'd heard something about that. I remember also hearing something about Gallagher's brother doing the same melon-smashing comedy act and trying to make money from it, and Gallagher suied him for it:

https://rb.gy/khrd5

Full link:

https://www.grunge.com/1098039/gallagher-once-sued-his-brother-for-stealing-his -act/

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: The Lizard Master to candycane on Sun Jul 30 2023 09:18 am

> For me, I almost immediately wanted to host one once I started calling aroun

My first computer was a Tandy 1000HX with a modem. I immediately wanted to run
a BBS and it kinda started there on a floppy. It's probably for all the same
reasons others mentioned. Sysop didn't seem legit until US Robotics offered a
buy one get one free deal on the HST Dual Standard modems. After that being a
sysop seemed legit :)

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Re: Hello World!
By: GenFx to Hustler on Thu Aug 03 2023 07:38 pm

Ge> mainstream. Maybe it was just me, I really never felt comfortable talking
Ge> to people and was just happy to talk to the computer.

Same, I'm not good at talking in person.

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Nightfox to MRO on Thu Aug 03 2023 09:43 am

Ni> Re: Re: Hello World!
Ni> By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Aug 02 2023 08:22 pm

MR>> gallagher was a real interesting guy. pbs had a biography on him and
MR>> it really went deep into his childhood and young adult years. then
MR>> it went into the trouble he had with his brother and it said his
MR>> whole family sided with the brother. i can not find it online
MR>> anywhere.

Ni> I'd heard something about that. I remember also hearing something about
Ni> Gallagher's brother doing the same melon-smashing comedy act and trying to
Ni> make money from it, and Gallagher suied him for it:

Ni> https://rb.gy/khrd5

Ni> Full link:

Ni> https://www.grunge.com/1098039/gallagher-once-sued-his-brother-for-stealin
Ni> g-his -act/

Ni> Nightfox

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Ah, brotherly love. Then again, it was rude to steal their act without asking.

candycane

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Re: Re: Hello World!
By: Nightfox to MRO on Thu Aug 03 2023 09:43 am

> Re: Re: Hello World!
> By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Aug 02 2023 08:22 pm
>
> MR> gallagher was a real interesting guy. pbs had a biography on him and it
> MR> really went deep into his childhood and young adult years. then it went
> MR> into the trouble he had with his brother and it said his whole family
> MR> sided with the brother. i can not find it online anywhere.
>
> I'd heard something about that. I remember also hearing something about
> Gallagher's brother doing the same melon-smashing comedy act and trying to
> make money from it, and Gallagher suied him for it:

they had an arrangement where the real one gave his brother SOME permission
to do SOME things, and identify himself as not being the real gallagher.
then he just kept doing it.

i wouldn't be surprised if he's doing it now since his brother is dead.
i tried looking into him and he didn't do anything notable except an appearance in a 2012 documentary within reach.

he could probably go to china and do the act.
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Re: Hello World!
By: candycane to GenFx on Thu Aug 03 2023 21:42:20

> Same, I'm not good at talking in person.
>
> candycane
>
thanks, im glad im in good company ^^

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