GET LAMP was here

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Wed Aug 11 14:34:46 CDT 2010


> > > Unfortunately I constantly forget that you like to party like it's
> > > 1979.
> > HELL, YES!!     You damn kids today have no clue how to party.
> > Herpes was the worst incurable STD in those days.
> > I will gladly find and give John Titor a 5100 (with APL AND BASIC)
> > if he will just drop me off in 1979.  I'll throw in a 360
> > for a one-way to the 1960s.  That's for one-way.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
> Ooooh oooh ooh! Can I come? Please? When the '60s ended, I was nearly
> 3. I missed all the fun.

Sure!  If Titor can take us, we can all go.

You also missed out on most of the "Cold War" - Kruschev being refused
access to Disneyland, the Cuban missile crisis, fallout shelters, the
constant fear of total annhilation, and the resulting "cutting loose" of
the younger generation.

> > For round-trip, all he gets is Valtrep.
> [Mirth] Oh, come on. We can give him a PDP/11 running OS/2, at least!

I don't wanna have to come right back!  I wanna take 50 years to get back
here from 1960!

'course even 1979 would be fun, to relive Apple, TRS80, and PET.  Z80,
8080, 6502.  Source and Compuserve.  Hard sector V Soft Sector!  Much
better religious battles than the wimpy WINDOZE V LINUX squabbles that
we have today.


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com



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