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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ah yes, the Start button. Sort of like having
your bank ATM driveup with Braille on the keyboard.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><i><font size=4 color=navy face="Brush Script MT"><span style='font-size:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</span></font><font
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size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b></span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>John Pavlick</span></font><font
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 27, 2009
12:02 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>General pattern
discussion</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
Experimenting with new forum software</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Ah now see we never had that problem with DOS. No
lockups as far as I can remember other than the times I wrote some bad
code in BASIC! </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now remember, Windows wants you to press the
"Start" button (?) in order to shut the computer off. So why does
it shock you that sometimes it doesn't shut down? LOL</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>John Pavlick<br>
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--- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Tue, 1/27/09, J N Hiller <i><span
style='font-style:italic'><jnhiller@earthlink.net></span></i></span></b>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From: J N Hiller
<jnhiller@earthlink.net><br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Experimenting with new forum software<br>
To: "General pattern discussion"
<nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:48 PM</span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>DOS, that's that black screen stuff isn't it? I'm a point and click</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>guy that</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>came with windows and have had to resort to pulling the plug on XP more than</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>once to regain at least partial control.</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jim Hiller</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>-----Original Message-----</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Martin X.</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Moleski, SJ</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:06 AM</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: General pattern discussion</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Experimenting with new forum software</span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jay Marshall wrote:</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> What's wrong with DOS?</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>DOS is cool.</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Back in the DOS 2 days, I knew every file on my computer</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>and what it did. I was the master of a very small</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>universe. I wrote a treelist function for my own</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>shell that would let me catalog every file on my</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>system.</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> I have a virgin shrink wrapped copy of 2.0 on my</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>> bookshelf that I tempted to install on my laptop...</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I know the feeling. I often imagine what DOS would</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>be like on any of my obsolete computers--they are</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>WAAAAAAAAAAAY beyond my old 8088 for horsepower!</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I've put DOS on a couple of thumb drives for various</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>nefarious schemes. It works. It's useful. It brings</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>back lots of happy memories. Then I unplug it and</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>go back to GUI-world. No more whole-system catalogues.</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'm not even sure of the order of magnitude of system</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>and program files on my computer. 40,000? More?</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Beats me. As long as they stay quiet and play together</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>nice, I don't look at them.</span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Marty</span></font></pre><pre><font
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