Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ego From: ego@pawl.rpi.edu (Erik G Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti Subject: Re: Is anyone out there? Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 00:23:06 GMT References: <827@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <793@compnect.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 49 In article <793@compnect.UUCP> dave@compnect.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes: >In article <827@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, stricher@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu ("Char Aznabul") writes: >> In article <790@compnect.UUCP> dave@compnect.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes: >> > Nice to see you still with us JS. Where ya been? >> Just a wee bit po'd at Myache, thass all. Well, after Mdos spat upon my > >> hd, and much of my original work that was archived and lost (the >> archives are corrupted), I didn't feel much like trying to recover. I >> have stated before, and I'll state it again, that I'm not going to go to >> the effort to program the machine if I can't trust the OS to NOT CORRUPT >> AND DESTROY MY EFFORTS! > >I know your how you feel. Till now, I've stayed with MDOS 1.14 because I've >never had any problems with it turning my data into ca-ca. Now that >Clint has come out with the MDOS Disk Manager, I'm seriously considering >moving to MDOS .97h. That'll probably result in the need for hourly >back-ups lest MDOS re-arrange my hard drives. > >BTW, did you catch the message on Delphi from Berry Miller about Lou? >More info in that one message than we've seen on all of Ron's 'relays' >in the past year....... and more promises > >>I have much more fun programming our 4 unix boxes, and I >> am considering how best to get a personal unix box of my own. > >I find purchasing one usually works :-) My spare Pfennigs are going into >the kitty for an 80386/33 right now. Unix is SOOOOOO attractive. Maybe >Minix for the Geneve? Makes me drool thinking about it.... > >> Oh, By The By, I'm moving...only across town, to my new home!!!! > >Have a nice trip...... ;) > >> James > > *>> Dave <<* > >[------------------------------------------------------ Dave Ratcliffe -----] >: uunet!rutgers!psuvax1!eds1!wa3wbu!compnect!dave | The Data Factory BBS : >: uunet!wa3wbu!compnect!dave | (717)657-4997 : >: dave@compnect.uucp or compnect!dave@uunet.UU.NET | (717)657-4992 : >[---------------------------------------------------------------------------] -- =======================+========================================= Erik G Olson "There was virtue in the world before there was orthodoxy in it." ego@pawl.rpi.edu --The Independent Whig