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Default OT - old software Was: PING: Charles Self

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:22:04 -0500, WillR wrote:

Now you've ticked me off cause I should remember. Now I'm gonna be
trying to remember for days. :-(

I presume this was for CP/M -- cause I do remember something -- and I
don't mean Microsoft who was doing their Commercial BASIC as I recall.

Maybe we should give a free Dynabyte System to the person who remembers...

And my favorite computer error message was from a Fortran compiler
written for the GE400 computers by Charley ... (damn memory). The
message was:

"The compiler has gotten lost - there are a myriad of possible reasons."

Still makes me chuckle :-).


Never saw that one -- must have been a better FORTRAN programmer than I
thought I was. :-)

learn to deal with it, Will.. it gets worse as ya get older...
Label it a "senior moment" and turn the page.. *g*



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