On Tue Oct-18-2016 09:40, Holger Granholm (2:20/228) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 HG> In a message on Tuesday 10-16-16 Roger Nelson said to Holger
 HG> Granholm: 

Hej,

 HG> goes for any time of day, .

I'll stick with Hej, then.  (-:

RN> Hej, (I forgot the Swedish word for morning, but I'll take a

RN>  I think it's m¢rgon, but am unsure.

 HG> Close but not a spike.
 HG> It's really very simple, Good morning, in swedish is God morgon. 

Well, if I can't finish in 1st place, 2nd place will have to do.

RN> All you have to do for that is change your upgrade settings; i.e.,
RN> download, but do not install without your okay.  I do that here.

 HG> Yes I know, but I haven't found that setting, even though I have
 HG> tried. 

 HG> It seems to me that I may have found that setting sometime, because
 HG> I have an icon on the screen, that says 'Windows10 Upgrade
 HG> Assistant'. Clicking on that gives a very meagry description of the
 HG> upgrade, and a slider that presently is set near the top. That's
 HG> OK.

I'll check on that later.

RN> What version of Windows are you using on your OS/2 machine?  (-:

 HG> See above, but it's not on an OS/2 machine. So far those machines
 HG> run only OS/2.

I knew that question mark was going to get me in trouble.

RN> That takes me back.  Too bad they couldn't produce a more affordable
RN> Amiga. That was a heck of a machine, but no one was writing programs
RN> for it.

 HG> Since I wasn't interested in 'game machine', I never paid attention
 HG> to the price of it, nor compared it to the price of an IBM
 HG> compatible. 

Ah, but it was more than that.  The approximate $3,500 price tag for the
machine that was demon'd to the club put off a lot of prospective buyers -- me
included.  The local Apple dudes were stuck-up snobs and didn't demo their
Macintoshes until after I resigned as president of the club.  On the other
hand, the Commodore and TI people were great.  The club ceased to exist not
long after I left.

 HG> But it can't have been very expensive, because my GS was only
 HG> schoolboy when he got it, unless he was sponsored by somebody.

See above.  There may have been a discount for those students in school, but I
didn't think of that at that time.

 HG> The reason why nobody wrote programs for it, was that it was
 HG> considered to be only a game machine, as were the earlier
 HG> Commodores.

I must be one of the rare ones who recognized its potential.

RN> friend bring his Amiga in for a demo to the rest of those who showed
RN> up and I can tell you I was impressd from the outset.

 HG> I never tried the Amiga, but reading the manual impresses me still.

You should have seen it in action.  Very impressive.

 HG> There were in fact a few (a couple ?) office programs written for
 HG> it, but the Amiga never took off.

I ws teaching myself BASIC at the time and didn't pay much attention to other
stuff.

RN> I did manage to convert an Amiga BASIC program so it would run on an
RN> IBM compatible.

 HG> I started programming in assembler, when I found that Basic wasn't
 HG> good enough to manage large and fast programs, on my Sinclair
 HG> ZX-81. 

I wanted to go to university for that, but two of my computer programmer
friends talked me out of it.  They told me to stick with BASIC and all of the
other things that subsequently came along; COBOL. FORTRAN. etc.

 HG> Then I bought a CP/M machine, and converted earlier made Basic
 HG> programs to Turbo Pascal. After switching to an IBM compatible, I
 HG> did also try Turbo C, Modula and CA Realizer.

That's another language I wanted to get into, but life got in the way.

 HG> If it had, even OS/2 would have been superfluos. It was that
 HG> capable. 

Yes.

Ha en bra dag.  (-:-)


Regards,

Roger 
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