"Steve Wertz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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sf said:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:41:07 GMT, Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:34:44 -0700, sf wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:55:06 GMT, Steve Wertz >> <[email hidden]> wrote: >> >>>How rude. Learn how to use Usenet properly. >>> >>><plonk> >> >> Yep. Steve Wertz is a net nazi. > >Bwhahahahahahahahah! > >Criticizing someone for their abusive use of Usenet, after trying >to explain the problem nicely, is not being a net-Nazi. > >Are you on the rag this week, or what? I seem to have a couple >sore spots with you. > I can't believe how you've reverted to the "old steve".
And it only took 6 unprovoked, snotty posts from you today before I resorted to that, too!
Or maybe you'd like to bow down and kiss your precious behind and apologize every time you have a snit? Sorry, not my style.
It's for a good cause. Plus the Fortran 66 will look good on my resume. I'm still working on it - maybe I'll port it to Pascal or ADA instead. That code is older than me. And now my punch-card reader is on the fritz, of all the luck.
It is indeed. An amazing historical find. 99% of the people here have no idea what we're talking about.
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Plus the Fortran 66 will look good on my resume.
Brush up on your COBOL too!
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I'm still working on it - maybe I'll port it to Pascal or ADA instead.
That's interesting. I wonder how many games are in Ada?
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That code is older than me.
Really? I didn't know you were such a youngster. I was in high school.
Adventure wasn't my entry into the evil world of text-adventure, that was Zork (on a CP/M machine with 8-in floppies!). Zork is without a doubt the reason I'm doing what I do today. It has much to answer for.
Brian
-- If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. -- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)
Really? I didn't know you were such a youngster. I was in high school.
I stand corrected. I was 8 when that game first came out. And that's when I started playing it (at Westinghouse on some unknown text terminal hooked up to Chicago).
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Adventure wasn't my entry into the evil world of text-adventure, that was Zork (on a CP/M machine with 8-in floppies!). Zork is without a doubt the reason I'm doing what I do today. It has much to answer for.
I had Zork on those same PDP's. Then later on the TRS-80's and Kaypros (both running CP/M).
Thanks to those games, I was probably one of the only 10 year-olds that could how to type 25+ words a minute (by hunting and pecking - which I still do to this day).
