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juggernaut · 2006-03-20, 09:38 PM

I guess I'll do like I always do, I'll wait for work to buy the VLK and then just copy the thing for myself. But at this point I'm not jumping off XP anytime fast. I think it was a major step for MS in stability. Well not really stable, instead of getting those nice blue screens we now get a little pop up asking if you want to send the error message to MS. Man I often wonder who reads all those. Surly they must get millions of them a day, just on the autosend alone.
My first PC was a MAC 128 I think that was the name. My dad loaned a friend money to open a High end PC graphics house and the friend gave me the thing with a tape drive and modem that I could never figure out how to use. Hell that was back in like 82 maybe. Then came the comadore 64 WOW! Color!!! And hey I could program it to repeat my name across the screen a zillion times (you can always tell on forums who played around with "basic", instead of typing GO TO, they type goto). Then I got a 128 which was cool cause I was able to get that modem working, which was mainly used to send messages to my one and only computer geek friend. He fooled me one day. I went over his house an he told me he was able to break into the fbi's mainframe. I have to admit he did a good job making it look real and scaring the shit out of me. The program made it look as though we were caught, he had the modem call his house about 5 seconds after the program said they found us and disconnected our phone in order to call us. lol. Man those were the days. I wonder what that guy is doing now. Good ol Arty such a wiseass.

2006-03-20, 09:38 PM	#19
juggernaut Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Central Jersey! If I was rich and powerful I would dress as my avatar does. Posts: 1,448	I guess I'll do like I always do, I'll wait for work to buy the VLK and then just copy the thing for myself. But at this point I'm not jumping off XP anytime fast. I think it was a major step for MS in stability. Well not really stable, instead of getting those nice blue screens we now get a little pop up asking if you want to send the error message to MS. Man I often wonder who reads all those. Surly they must get millions of them a day, just on the autosend alone. My first PC was a MAC 128 I think that was the name. My dad loaned a friend money to open a High end PC graphics house and the friend gave me the thing with a tape drive and modem that I could never figure out how to use. Hell that was back in like 82 maybe. Then came the comadore 64 WOW! Color!!! And hey I could program it to repeat my name across the screen a zillion times (you can always tell on forums who played around with "basic", instead of typing GO TO, they type goto). Then I got a 128 which was cool cause I was able to get that modem working, which was mainly used to send messages to my one and only computer geek friend. He fooled me one day. I went over his house an he told me he was able to break into the fbi's mainframe. I have to admit he did a good job making it look real and scaring the shit out of me. The program made it look as though we were caught, he had the modem call his house about 5 seconds after the program said they found us and disconnected our phone in order to call us. lol. Man those were the days. I wonder what that guy is doing now. Good ol Arty such a wiseass.