[TheForge] Excessive scaling?

[Rick]

Hey David -

I also had a TI-99.  With a tape drive.  I haven't heard from anyone else 
who had one, ever.  I made programs to teach my kids their math, and other 
stuff also.  I made it into a game for them and it doesn't seem to have hurt 
them.  They are grown now, so it didn't kill them at least.  Even as 
high-tech as we were, everything seemed much simpler then.  I really miss 
DOS and BASIC now and again.

|8^)>
Rick Crawford at Rafter Lazy C
  Home of Smoky Forge and Lem the Wonder Mule
   In the middle of Northern Illinois

    http://www.smokyforge.com
     rick at smokyforge.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hufford, David" <David.Hufford at EKU.EDU>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Excessive scaling?




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Frosty:
I still use DOS occasionally, and also a couple of programs I wrote in BASIC 
back in the 80's.  And you had a Commodore 64 ... lucky you!  I had the 
TI-99 ... 16K RAM and no floppy disk drive (had to use a cassette recorder 
to save data).  I really wanted the TRS-80, but could not afford it at the 
time.  Ah, those early days of computer technology.

David Hufford
Richmond KY

I kind of liked the days of DOS, the programmers had to
be really careful how much memory they used and things
ran so much more smoothly. I liked Basic too. maybe
I'll break out my Commodore 64 for old times sake.
<grin>

Glad you got to see the video. Did you check out the
"ring welding" video? Makes me glad electric welding is
pretty well perfected. <grin>

Frosty
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