jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) (04/25/89)
I'm tired. Walking all around the Trenton Computer Fest wore me out. I spent too much money on too much stuff. No, my board wasn't working :(. I got PC from the board maker Friday at work, built a board Friday night, then it didn't work. They goofed and didn't drill two holes. I goofed and gave them worped films which they had to edit :# (teeth on edge). I decided to spend 2 hours sleeping instead of warming up the Tek 543A. I did manage to get a few 5M drives, most for $1/Meg. Bought some parts for the boards, got some other good contacts for parts. We had great discussions Sat night at Dave Shevett's place and Sun afternoon at the UNIX users' group meeting. Anybody got specs on the IBM 3295 Plasma display interface? John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu (614) h:294-4823, w:764-2933; AMPR: 44.70.0.52; Don't FLAME, inform!
jlw@lznv.ATT.COM (J.L.WOOD) (04/26/89)
Well, my wife, Susan, and I had a good time at the Festival too. In addition she had signed us up to help out as volunteer workers. I spent three hours on the bus to/from the remote parking lot and she did the same in the game room rebooting PCs for the kids. Then, LO and behold we got a phone call last night from Kieth Sproul, our shift leader, who informed us that we had won the workers' raffle. The prize -- an Apple Mac SE -- !!!! Neat. I've never won anything big before, just a couple of 50-50s. I would have taken the HP LaserJet II over the Mac, but it was actually my wife whose ticket was drawn and she got to choose. I mean this is carrying coal to Newcastle. We currently have in our house an Apple II, a RS COCO, a UNIX-PC, and a 6300-DOS box. The latter two are connected via StarLan (be the first kid on your block). Sorry we had to leave the UNIX user's group meeting early, we were taking our boy scout troop over to her office to show them some new computer goodies (Interactive video disks). BTW there is a Princeton Area UNIX User's Group, PUUG, whose mailing list coordinator is named Pat and is located at princeton!pep. Joe Wood jlw@lznv.ATT.COM