On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:43:37 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>Mark A.Meggs wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:23:56 -0500, George Shirley
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>>>> In article >,
>>>> George Shirley > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunner68/
>>>>
>>>> Pretty jelly, Jorge!
>>>> And you know I love Miz Anne's watercolors. :-)
>>> Thank you my lady, that's great coming from the head Ribbon Slut. <VBG>
>>>
>>> I think I'm going to have to get another digital camera. I'm looking at
>>> a new computer and the new ones don't have a drive for a 3.5 inch floppy
>>> which my Sony Mavica uses to put the pictures on. Oh well, time to start
>>> looking for another new toy.
>>
>> Going even futher off-topic -
>>
>> If you are going to buy a new PC, do your best to get it with Windows
>> XP Professional, not Vista. It is still just barely possible to get
>> it. Speaking as someone who has been playing with and working with
>> PCs since Bill Gates was still an undergrad - as someone who had high
>> hopes for Windows when it was first introduced in the 80's - you don't
>> want Vista.
>
>I'm using XP Pro on this computer Mark, was told the same thing about XP
>Home. I, too, had high hopes for Windoze but was disappointed. He just
>didn't steal enough of someone else's package to make it right.
>
>I started with CPM, moved to ZCPM, finally to Windows, I think, 1.1 and
>then onward to W3 and up. I used to be a whiz with Basic but don't even
>try to understand most of the stuff out there now. I've never truly been
>happy with Windows, any version at all. I've even been thinking of
>moving to Mac, friends seem happy with it and there are more
>applications available nowadays than previously.

Sounds roughly like my path - I was a ham in college and that gave me
access to the EE labs at just the time when the first Z80 based PCs
were coming in and Jerry Pournelle was the most popular columnist in
Byte. I'm just a user these days.

- Mark