Ah, I was wondering who The Mad Sysop was, while looking through the old
Gnome At Home pages today - gnow I gnow!
Glyn almost certaignly already gnew, of course - the latter-day Gnome was
more his domaign than migne.
Bob
PS I promise to stop all this gn stuff quite soogn...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob O'Donnell" <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Cc: "Bob Clark" <bob.c_at_dial.pipex.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Gnomes
> At 15:19 03/05/2003 +0100, Bob Clark wrote:
>
> >Yes I remember Bob Clark
> >(http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2003-January/014196.html)
because
> >I am he, and I remember Peter Turnbull too. This is getting silly,
because
> >this week I have relocated Bill Olivier (CommunITel) and Lindsay Reid
(Viewfax
> >258), mostly by accident.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Bob
>
> Hmm... want to add an ex-Micronet Employee, ClubSpot 810 editor, bulletin
> board operator (incl. an official TG_at_H software user) Prestel message
board
> operator ("Free Speech") and suchlike? Namely Me!
>
> It's a small world.
>
> At 16:07 03/05/2003 +0100, Bob Clark wrote:
>
>
>
> >... the good news is that Lindsay still has Viewfax 258 backed up on
5.25"
> >floppy disks. There's quite a few disks, and we'd have to sort through
them
> >somewhat to find the Gnomey bits. But Lindsay is happy to loan his disks
to
> >Glyn the man with the archaic hardware, all he needs is his address. Then
he'd
> >like his disks back. I figure we could probably blow the lot onto the
first
> >quarter inch of a CD for him.
>
>
> >So our dream may come true and we'll have both the Gnome on Prestel and
the
> >Gnome at Home splurged all over our shiny new web site.
>
> I fancied at one point digging out some of my old Beebs, setting the
> fileserver up again, and linking the lot to a terminal-server on the DSL,
> and hey Presto, my TG_at_H clone back online again! But .. does anybody do a
> Java applet that will run a viewdata terminal emulation?
>
> I have a complete archive of Freech backed up on various media, too, if
> anyone were really interested in 15 year old ramblings from a moderated
> chat board..!
>
> Give my regards to Glynn as and when you see him - he gave me a Terry
> Pratchett book once when I was up there admiring the rats nest, and I'm
> still reading them - just been given the new one as a present :-) :-)
>
> Rob.
> (aka T.M.S., once.)
Received on Tue May 06 2003 - 01:00:00 BST