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-=> Charles Stephenson spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-

 CS> My Dad kept up with all the 'new' stuff that came out due to his
 CS> business/employment.  I got to look and play with a few, albiet for a
 CS> short time, but that groomed me to my love of Tech!

 Oh I"m sure, I know there were some real advancements for the times , 
probably
primitive compared to the stuff these days but back then... the wow factor was 
something else. :)  Computer and processor speeds doubled every other year :)


 GH>  Ah yes, the batch programming.. you really could automate a bunch of
 GH> stuff with those batch scripts. Of course , one little glitch in the
 GH> syntax and you could mess a bunch of stuff up as well. :)
 GH>

 CS> Right! a 'cough' while typing into a batch file could cause ALOT of
 CS> issues in a large batch!  Been there done that

 hahahaha, voice of experience I can tell.  Yeah but when you run a board and
you've set up a batch file to delete certain log files every night and you 
make
a typo and delete a whole database.... good think I had a recent backup. :)

SYNTAX ERROR: "Hi, I'd like to buy a computer, and money is no object."

Greeting from
The Curmudgeon 
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