On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Derek Peschel wrote:
> I just realized that "seminally useless" could also mean "unable to have
> descendants", as in "its sperm is useless". :)
True. I just throw big words into my sentences to make myself seem
impressive (sometimes I don't even know what I'm writing and it just
happens to work out). Checking with the online thesaurus it is
grammatically feasible to say "seminally useless" in the sense I meant
it, which is to say it was bunk from the get go.
> Writing a debugger is what I had in mind. In that case the feature is
Right. I hadn't thought of that. I suppose a few latchable LEDs hooked
into decoders in the address path at the right places might work for that
sort of thing, if not kludgily so.
> You find me an archive of Call A.P.P.L.E. magazines, I'll find you a
> source.
Are you coming to VCF this year? I can let you dig around in the magazine
boxes until you come across them. Of course, it will probably take you
all weekend :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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