yup, i remember you. not dan, andreas, jimmy, or any
of those other people. i've been on this list for maybe 3/4 of a
year. maybe. but i remember you posting a lot back then, but
not anymore. i think this is your first post in awhile. but
it was a good one. i do agree, i have seen the decline in the
"quality" of the posts. this is like a social thing
now. sure, some of it has to do with 86's, but not what this list
was meant to do.
it's a programming list. people learn to program. you ask a
question, everyone trys to help you. i think most of the questions
asked here could be directed toward the Calc-TI list which is a general
calculator discussion list.
At 08:46 PM 9/4/98, you wrote:
>
>At 03:20 AM 9/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>> As far as I know, you have to press on 10 times with the
AAA
>>> batteries out.
>>
>>Sorry, I accidentally started that 10 times thing a year or so
back.
>>It's officially 10 SECONDS.
>>
>
>Actually, the way I remember it, I asked a question on one of the
TI
>channels on Efnet the first night I got my 86 (a long-ass time
ago),
>because I kept trying to put a game on my calc (Lunoid, if i
recall
>correctly), and it kept crashing. Anyway, I aksed about how to
resset, cuz
>it wouldn't, and it finally spilled over to the A86 list.
>
>In addition, I want to add my two cents to the "lack of great
programmers"
>thing people have been talking about. I have been on this list
(and the
>A85) a really long time. It's actually kind of mind-boggling
how much HD
>space my A86 mailbox takes up. Anyway, when I fisrt got on the
list,
>people like Dan Eble, Andreas Ess, Jimmy Mardell, Grant Stockley and
a
>whole bunch of the other really legendary people used to talk on this
list,
>a lot. I used to too. I used to be like #3 on the
"most messages sent"
>thingie. And it seems to me that most of these type of people
stopped
>because of the off-topic thread thing. Except for Jimmy
Mardell, who had
>to go serve in the army, most just couldn't take this list
anymore. Mr.
>Eble contributes every once in awhile, but mostly not. Grant
moved on to
>do harware stuff. I don't really know what happened to
Andreas. Then
>there was Kirk Meyer, who dropped off the list. I count him
among the
>second generation of great TI programmers. Same with ScaBBy,
Dux (possible
>first generation, I can't really remember, it's been a really long
time),
>Matt Johnson, and Ahmed (who I still talk to sometimes on ICQ).
Most of
>them don't contribute much, or at all, anymore. I never counted
myslef
>among any of the lists of really good programmers, I only really
released a
>cuppla things, and I was never really that interested, but i know
that
>compared with how the list used to be, I think the state of affairs
now is
>shameful. I first started on assembly for this calc, and I
aksed a few
>questions, and I would get like 6 really helpful responses.
Never got
>flames, never started any wars (except for possible the battery
thing).
>I've seen about 6 Mac/PC, windows/unix, etc. wars and flame-wars
since
>then. I think turnover is a really good thing, but I bet less
than 10% of
>the people who actively participate (not just signed on) knew what
happened
>to Jimmy. I mean, there used to be real community. I
don't know what
>exaclt to do about what I think is wrong with the list, or if really
it
>needs to be changed, but maybe I want to start a
"Reminisces" thread.
>actually, i think I will change the subject now. Maybe this
isn't the most
>topical thing in the world, but I want to hear what people have to
say.
>
>Robby Gutmann
>gutmann@planet-connect.com
>ICQ UIN: 724927 Agonostis on IRC
>
>Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river
water
>was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many
kidneys,
>they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
> --
(Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)
>
{-kimo-}
Summers never live up to your expectations . . .
-kimo
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