OFF: Olde games

[Wilma Berry/ and: or / Wesley]

HEY! Where did Bill Gates go to college?


At 04:03 PM 05/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>Ah yes....
>>Those were the days of wooden computers and iron programmers.  I was a
>>TRS-80 Color Computer fan myself, what with that whopping 16K of memory
>>(which I later proudly upgraded to the mind-boggling 64K).  I even wrote a
>>few articles for the Color Computer magazines of the day..... things really
>>were FUN in those days, but it  does seem pathetic in a way.... I mean all
>>that effort to get some squarish primary-color graphics.... chokes me up!
>
>Don't suppose you ever used Dosplus for the Trash-80....  that was from
>my outfit, albeit its day had passed by the time I started working there.
>
>Dosplus was actually one of two proposed disk operating systems for the
>Trash, it lost out to one written by Bill Gates.  Miffed, my old boss
>released his as an add-on with some extra features, was somewhat popular in its
>day.  Ah, Micro-Systems, a closet outfit which never exceeded six people
>in the entire time I worked there.  The stuff we did there...  I mean,
>when excellence! (an Amiga word processor) 3.0 came out, they had me
>write the french version.  Dialogs, menus, installation utility, even
>some notes for the manual.  "I don't speak french", I protested.
>"You speak spanish, that's close enough", I was told, as they handed
>me a French-English pocket dictionary.  You should've seen the angry
>letters from french people we got.  One of them went so far as to outline
>every single error with corrections, which we promptly made and sent him
>a new copy.  "Someone always does that", they told me, "no need to pay
>anyone to do it."
>
>
>"I can saw a woman in two...
> but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through"
>   - "For my next trick..." by Warren Zevon
>===============
>Andrew Apold
>