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Yep, you got me! 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
De de de dah DAH! Daaah da da daaaah da! Da Da Da DAH!
And the hairs on the back of my next still stand up! 
Star Wars original opening crawl - 1977 - YouTube[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have no need of YouTube for that. I have the opening theme in my MP3 player and usually do a 6 days (now 7) rewatch of SW with my girlfriend every year.
I rewatched The Force Awakens just a couple of days ago - I was at first "meh, I've already saw it recently". Then the opening crawl and I was excited as a little kid for the entire movie.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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wow - not even 'well, there was this cute chick who couldnt speak Italian'
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They probably had computer that booted directly to win3.1; or (for the older ones) just didn't use a PC when they were younger.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Obviously they had childhoods severely lacking in essential information. If you can't reconfigure the floppy disk controller parameters to write data between the standard tracks using only CP/M DDT[^], you're computer illiterate. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Kent beats you in the Insider News.
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I never liked Nintendo - but Final Fantasy are great. I've always been a PC gamer, since 1992.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: been a PC gamer, since 1992.
Ah, the good old days, when you had to configure interrupts just to get a game to play.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No please do not remind me of that. In 1992 I was too little to do that myself, in 1996 not anymore. I ws the only 3rd grader able to install Windows on a PC, through experience.
How did I end up being a programmer? It's been a loooong road...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And hand tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys to get enough memory! 
EMM386 or HIMEM - if I use HIMEM, I can use V3 of the mouse driver which takes 1K less than V4, but that means the Sound Blaster driver has to load last, and...
I can remember times when it took longer to get the memory / driver combo right than to play the whole game. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Pah! You kids with your 386 machines and HIMEM.SYS!
I remember the really old good old days when I had to help rebuild the college's only computer, a Pr1me 300B running Pr1mos and bootstrapping the loader by setting the address and data memory switches on the front panel, pressing the "set" button and then updating the address and data switches again all while trying to balance the big square manual/ring-binder folder I was reading the settings from on my knee (it was about 15" square and very heavy for some reason!). Repeat until the loader was all set and then press "boot" (and pray). Suddenly the primary tape drive (you did remember to load the correct 400 bps "boot tape" didn't you?) would come come to life and after several short spasmodic jerks all the christmas lights on the front panel would go out... keep breathing... and then come back on and make pretty patterns for a while. Then the disc drive would spin up and all would be well.
Later on the college paid for a solely disc based version, we got rid of the tape drive (which, apparently, we were the only installation of a 300B in the world to have - it was an option some clever salesman sold us on). This disc-based version had a boot disk but still needed the front panel set-up after yet another power outage crashed the machine - it was the period of strikes and blackouts back in the 70s.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I could probably still toggle the bootstrap sequence into the front panel of a Data General Nova 3 from memory!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's nothing. Try wire-wrapping as "programming". Pfffft.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sorry, I don't do hardware! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I can remember times when it took longer to get the memory / driver combo right than to play the whole game
That's why they introduced the menuing options in config.sys/autoexec.bat. So you could spend your remaining gaming time getting the menus themselves juuuuust right.
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"A fool and his money are soon parted." --- someone 'famous'...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Only a fool thinks himself not to be one.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Indeed[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I was going to look for my missing watch, but I could never find the time.
I should learn sign language. It might come in handy.
Police were called to a nursery where a three year old was resisting a rest.
Happy Friday everybody 
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I'm pretty sure we have our custom version for CodeProject in your size in stock: [^], but, if that style doesn't appeal to you, please let us know which one of these does: [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Awww, man. Now you've gone and hurt my feeling. 
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