owl

Don't feel constrained by attributes that others may sling around so
freely - "charlatan" sounds fine to me, academic vapor puff, even
better. Do keep the snake-oil* salesman accolade reserved for Intel rep
- in fact, he'd be awarded an Olympic gold medal if they ever staged the
event.

* The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with
exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality such as
bogus *VISUAL*ness.

rich townsend

It may interest readers to note that "owl" and "kia" both post messages
with near-identical headers to B. Voh. Based on the fact that all three
of them can't stop whining incessantly about the demise of CVF, it
seems almost certain that they're the same person.

cheers,

Rich

richard e maine

I didn't actually need to look at the headers to figure that out (and I
didn't bother to look there either). The content was sufficient for the
deduction. Wasn't exactly a very difficult deduction either.

I will leave it as an exercise to the student to draw whatever
conclusions might be merited from the observation that someone appears
to post under multiple pseudo-anonymous names without any ********
indication of the connection.

I prefer to let people know who I am, even though it occasionally
results in annoyances (such as people bitching at my employer). The
annoyances are part of the cost of establishing a reputation.

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: my first.last at org.domain | experience comes from bad judgment.
org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain

walter spector

Man, you had it good.

My first computer was a Digicomp. As a kid, I saw it in a catalog
somewhere and my parents bought one for me:

http://www.billglover.com/blog/archives/000082.html
http://www.csparks.com/gallery/Digi-comp/digicomp1
and
http://www.embedded.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=51200678

The 'data register' was only 3 bits wide, and it could hold 6 instructions.
There were little soda straw-like tubes that one inserted to program it.
To advance the program counter one slid a plastic bar on one side.

Wish I still had it - or knew where it was hiding. I've heard they
sell for quite a bit on ebay these days.

Walt
(w6ws att earthlink dott net)

kevin g rhoads

Mine is on the attic at my parents house. I know it needs new rubber bands.

glen herrmannsfeldt

I thought it had little metal springs, shaped sort of like the
number 7.

I believe mine is long gone, though.

-- glen

clem clarke

I've met Robin. Professor Robin? Lecturer Robin.

He lives just down the road from where my first wife and I lived in an
inner suburb of Melbourne (some 30 years ago!). A BEAUTIFUL inner suburb.

And, I discovered, he - like me - loves Rover motor cars! (Although
here in Perth, I run an old 1980 Mercedes)

Manifest you days - joyfully!

Clem Clarke


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owl

Don't feel constrained by attributes that others may sling around so
freely - "charlatan" sounds fine to me, academic vapor puff, even
better. Do keep the snake-oil* salesman accolade reserved for Intel rep
- in fact, he'd be awarded an Olympic gold medal if they ever staged the
event.

* The expression is also applied metaphorically to any product with
exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality such as
bogus *VISUAL*ness.

rich townsend

It may interest readers to note that "owl" and "kia" both post messages
with near-identical headers to B. Voh. Based on the fact that all three
of them can't stop whining incessantly about the demise of CVF, it
seems almost certain that they're the same person.

cheers,

Rich

richard e maine

I didn't actually need to look at the headers to figure that out (and I
didn't bother to look there either). The content was sufficient for the
deduction. Wasn't exactly a very difficult deduction either.

I will leave it as an exercise to the student to draw whatever
conclusions might be merited from the observation that someone appears
to post under multiple pseudo-anonymous names without any ********
indication of the connection.

I prefer to let people know who I am, even though it occasionally
results in annoyances (such as people bitching at my employer). The
annoyances are part of the cost of establishing a reputation.

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: my first.last at org.domain | experience comes from bad judgment.
org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain