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    From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Stephen Walsh on Tuesday, March 08, 2016 16:30:00
    Stephen Walsh wrote to mark lewis <=-

    Amiga's where ahead of there time, and have always had long file name support.

    They sure were, nice machines in their day, though early versions of the OS had some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways to bring up a Guru Meditation. :)
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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Tony Langdon on Tuesday, March 08, 2016 18:41:50
    Hello Tony!

    08 Mar 2016 16:30, Tony Langdon wrote to Stephen Walsh:

    some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways to bring
    up a Guru Meditation. :)

    GOMF was fun on its own (Get Out My Face)


    Regards Benny

    ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Tony Langdon on Wednesday, March 09, 2016 07:06:13
    Re: Amibinkd and scheduled po
    By: Tony Langdon to Stephen Walsh on Tue Mar 08 2016 04:30 pm

    They sure were, nice machines in their day, though early versions of the OS had some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways to bring up a Guru Meditation. :)

    A local TV station back in the 80s always used to crash with a GM message - I'd wake up, flip through the channels and see it. I suppose the station went unattanded from 2am-6am or something like that!
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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Kurt Weiske on Thursday, March 10, 2016 07:05:00
    Kurt Weiske wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    They sure were, nice machines in their day, though early versions of the OS had some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways to bring up a Guru Meditation. :)

    A local TV station back in the 80s always used to crash with a GM
    message - I'd wake up, flip through the channels and see it. I suppose
    the station went unattanded from 2am-6am or something like that!

    Hahaha cute, I've never seen the Guru out in public myself. :) Reminds me of the various information displays in shopping malls that you'd see with a BSOD, revealing the fact they ran on Windows. :) One interesting peek at the OS underneath a public facing screen are the information screens for the trams in central Melbourne, Australia. I did have occasion to see one of them reboot once, and I noticed a rather familiar looking penguin - yep, they run Linux, and furthermore, the screens actually run upside down - the reboot screen was upside down, but when the information software is loaded, it inverts its output, so the display is the right way up. :)
    ... Doesanyoneknowhowmuchitcoststogetaspacebarrepaired?
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  • From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to Tony Langdon on Thursday, March 10, 2016 08:48:59

    Hello Tony!

    08 Mar 16 16:30, you wrote to me:

    Amiga's where ahead of there time, and have always had long file
    name support.

    They sure were, nice machines in their day, though early versions of
    the OS had some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways
    to bring up a Guru Meditation. :)

    I started with 1.3 and then went to 2.04 as soon as it came out. But never encounted anything like that. Yes
    the machine crash every now and again, but so do many others of that time.



    Stephen


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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Stephen Walsh on Thursday, March 10, 2016 11:30:00
    Stephen Walsh wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    They sure were, nice machines in their day, though early versions of
    the OS had some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways
    to bring up a Guru Meditation. :)

    I started with 1.3 and then went to 2.04 as soon as it came out. But
    never encounted anything like that. Yes
    the machine crash every now and again, but so do many others of that
    time.

    There used to be guides on how to bring up the Guru. Not meant as malicious back then, more for Amiga owners to amuse themselves. :) I used to work on an Amiga and tried them out, when I didn't need the computer for work. :)

    The only difference between this and later information on crashing Windows was the latter came later and often had more malicious intent.
    ... And now for something you'll really like! -Rocky
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  • From Bill Burton@1:2215/15 to Tony Langdon on Thursday, March 10, 2016 16:17:01

    ... Doesanyoneknowhowmuchitcoststogetaspacebarrepaired?

    Depends on how far out in space the bar is! Rocket fuel is expensive.

    Later,
    Bill

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Bill Burton on Friday, March 11, 2016 10:44:32
    Bill Burton <bill.burton@1:2215/15> wrote:

    ... Doesanyoneknowhowmuchitcoststogetaspacebarrepaired?

    Depends on how far out in space the bar is! Rocket fuel is expensive.

    Hahahaha good one. ;)
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