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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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