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 > -=> George Pope wrote to All <=-

 >  GP> Ahh, DOS, I miss thee, surely. . .

 > Nope.  Don't miss it at all.  But I don't dislike it.  It worked well for
 > its time.  I still play with it some times on my Tandy computers.

 > I currently have the Tandy 1400LT on the desk and I'm playing with Turbo
 > Pascal, remembering my college days.

Tandy dd more than run Tandy's Command Language? (their form of DOS -- it's
how I learned batch file programming before ever seeing a PC)

My IBM 486 needs someone to help me set it up with the nice 21" CRT I got for
it.  It has SCSI hard drives, so I'm not limited to IBM's MCA drives (running
$1,000/Gb & up); I had a nice 2Gb SCSI drive, but it got lost in the last
move. . . along with my PC 8088 with twin 160Kb SS/SD floppy drives & a 16oz
mouse & 4lb keyboard! & a built in 110baud modem, & an exteernal "high speed
BBS modem" of 300baud, that I actually used to go onto the internet once!
(just to say I did, really!)

I'd forgotten too much BASIC to really have fun with it -- I had great fun
with my 'Commode-Odor' Vic=20 in the day, programming little games & apps, to
save onto my cassette drive. . 

I had a dozen notebooks filed with tinily hand-printed programs, both from
Compute! magazine & my own creations!

I had the full 4 Kb RAM, plus had found an app to steal another 388 ytes from
the cassette buffer so I cold make really BIG programs! *LOL* (mostly
spaghetti code, but it was a fun little hobby uintil  the day Iu gt 
frustrated in not being able to do the math to create a high-res drawing
program (I'd never learned graphing & other algebraic functions so I was
winging it, trying to interpret arrow key movements as a single pixel instead
of an 8X8 block of pixels (i.e. a 'space')

Now I don't know anything marketable in programming any more, but I can
usually still improve an old computer to do more than it was intended to do. 
. .

I'm till the Cyberpope & my motto is: DOS IST GUT!!!

Your friend,

<+]:{)}
Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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