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From: tom ronson on 9 Jul 2010 20:58 Las Vegas Don wrote: > I'll have to send you some pictures of the view off my balcony here in > Memphis. I'm a big fan of Memphis... we'd go there once a year over the course of several years and always had fun. Used to stay at the Hampton right on the corner down by the park were they do concerts. Ate at that burger joint, what is it? Dwyers, Dyers, Deyers --- something like that, on Beale. I'd have two meals a day there. <grin> And a bbq joint --- maybe the blue moon? It was a block off Beale. Ahhh. great fun. --- but the reality is that most of Memphis is a shithole. wait --- Memphis is just like Vegas! discuss. -- "How can one little Street swallow so many lives?" -- The Offspring, The Kids Aren't Alright --tr
From: tom ronson on 9 Jul 2010 21:15 tom ronson wrote: > Ate at that burger joint, what is it? Dwyers, Dyers, Deyers --- > something like that, on Beale. sorry for the Don like tangent.... It was Dyers. I just pulled up to their web site and was shocked at what I saw...... they cleaned the joint up. A LOT! When I went there you'd slide across the floors to the counter in a dimly lit joint --- even during the day. <grin> I figured it was burger juice blocking out the sun. lol it doesn't look very appealing in these photos but if the burgers are still good I'd go with takeout and stroll over to the park across the street. http://www.dyersonbeale.com/ Boy, there was that one day. Went in Dyers around 1pm and, as the story is told, they rounded me up a few blocks up laid out on Beale around 2am. lol As they say --- you gotta be tough if you're going to be stupid. lol (again, sorry for the Donnie type rant <grin>) -- "How can one little Street swallow so many lives?" -- The Offspring, The Kids Aren't Alright --tr
From: Kurt Ullman on 9 Jul 2010 21:32 In article <i18fde$f5k$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, tom ronson <theavlv.ronson(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Walt wrote: > > > Big effin deal. I was communicating on CompuServe and The Source back in > > 1980 > > with a 0.3k modem, > > yikes --- I recall those days, and the horrific bills you'd get on your > per minute charges. (shiver) Gee I go back to the days of PLATO. They had a pretty decent chat function, some games and other neat stuff. Had to mess with it on Campus only. Although TI-994A did have the 300 baud acoustic modem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) > > > > And even farther back, in 1970, I took a > > BASIC programming class in high school, where we keyed in our programs on > > punch tape. > > remember the old DEC stuff where you'd toggle switches on the front > panel? The Altair 8080 (as I recall) was the first "home" kit. Geez, old times. My first time through college I took a FORTRAN course on a Regional Campus that was tied into the Main Campus mainframe by phone lines.. .with lots of static. Got some really epic error messages out of 10 card programs. -- I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. Robert Bakker, paleontologist
From: JRogow on 9 Jul 2010 21:32 Chef Kurt wrote: > On Jul 9, 2:59 pm, Las Vegas Don <dstre...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just IMHO, ...and tonight it is tuna melt with 2 cheeses, with...ICED >> TEA to drink > > Forget all the drivel I just deleted without reading. Let's get to the > important stuff. What kind of cheese? > > Kurt > Knowing how much screwball claims to be a gourmet, I'd expect Velveeta and "processed American".
From: tom ronson on 9 Jul 2010 21:52
Kurt Ullman wrote: > Geez, old times. indeed. it's remarkable how far things have come. Hell, look at memory. At DEC we had cards that were about 8 * 14" and were wired with cores. I think the high density ones were 4K, or something. Then solid state --- I recall a 4 meg AST Rampage card I had. Cost a small fortune and was hotter than the sun when it ran. now I've got a 4 gig usb flash drive that cost $10. Speeds? forget about it. and that's just memory. but here's a question for your side of it..... why does the consumer electronic financial model work as it does (ever decaying prices)--- and why don't more products follow that consumer pricing structure? -- "How can one little Street swallow so many lives?" -- The Offspring, The Kids Aren't Alright --tr |