"Bob Wood" <altair8800_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Let me say one other thing in passing to all the people
> who have pointed out that I have missed out on something
> by never learning the fun of poking around in these computers
> to see how they tick. You are right! I am sitting here with
> a Proc Tech factory made copy of Star Trek on cassette.
> Being a very serious video arcade game buff it is just
> about killing me that I cannot see it work. I have
> no earthly idea how to get my SOL to show it to me. And
> I want to see it bad, bad, bad! I am extremely fortunate
> enough to have both it and all the hardware to allow
> me to see it. But because I never tinkered around inside
> these computers I may never be able to see it play.
Here you are on this mailing list, you make a statement like that, and
you don't past the statement of ignorance to asking for help? What
kind of idjit are you? Could it be that you're afraid you might start
learning things and thus end up like us? BWAHAHAHA!
Here's the kind of idjit that I am: been there, done that (well, it
was FOCAL, not Star Trek), and I can't remember what you have to type
at the SOL monitor prompt to load and run the program off tape. LO?
Do you have to give it load addresses, and tell it where to start
execution (EX?) after loading? I've got the documentation (for FOCAL)
but it'd be an afternoon of work to get to it right now. Bah.
-Frank McConnell
Received on Sat Aug 15 1998 - 17:19:13 BST