Seriously. Imac without disk drive?

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Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

For the life of me, I could not think of an appropiate newsgroup to ask this
question except this one.

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Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
>Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
>bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

I'm told this is true. And that you can obtain disk drives to connect to
them, but that Apple is bent on discouraging this un-futuristic behaviour.

>For the life of me, I could not think of an appropiate newsgroup to ask this
>question except this one.

Because it would start a flamewar on any real comp.* group!

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In article <19990121221629...@ng42.aol.com>,

Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
>Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
>bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

I think iMac has always been floppyless.... if you want removable writable
media, you have to get a USB floppy or zip drive.

I dunno why... the floppy drive doesn't seem that unessential to me,
but I guess that's just because I go to school.

>For the life of me, I could not think of an appropiate newsgroup to ask this
>question except this one.

There's comp.mac.something.yadda.yadda.imac.fruit, I think... or
something..

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Nick S Bensema wrote:
>
> In article <19990121221629...@ng42.aol.com>,
> Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
> >Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
> >bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?
>
> I think iMac has always been floppyless.... if you want removable writable
> media, you have to get a USB floppy or zip drive.

True.

>
> I dunno why... the floppy drive doesn't seem that unessential to me,
> but I guess that's just because I go to school.

For the past two years the only time I've used a floppy is when I needed
an object to throw at somebody. I just burn a CD with all my iMac tools
or I use an ethernet connection.

>
> >For the life of me, I could not think of an appropiate newsgroup to ask this
> >question except this one.
>
> There's comp.mac.something.yadda.yadda.imac.fruit, I think... or
> something..

Try
comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
and
comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage

>
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ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:

>In article <19990121221629...@ng42.aol.com>,
>Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
>>Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
>>bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

>I think iMac has always been floppyless.... if you want removable writable
>media, you have to get a USB floppy or zip drive.

But they have handles, mang. Handles. So you can carry your fruity
bowling ball with a screen around with you.
Which reminds me of the C-128 manual, which shows a guy carrying a C-128
on campus. The pic is labelled "The Commodore 128 at school". It doesn't
explain how you lug the 27 pound disk drive, the 92 pound printer, or the
108 pound monitor around with you. Because just the keyboard ain't gonna
do you no good, unless you're swatting big ass flies. They should also
have a picture labelled "The Commodore 128 in the bathtub" and "The
Commodore 128 in a brothel".
Dammit, Nick, stop making me post about Commodores!

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In article <36A86D14...@erols.com>, Talos <Tal...@erols.com> wrote:

>Nick S Bensema wrote:
>> I dunno why... the floppy drive doesn't seem that unessential to me,
>> but I guess that's just because I go to school.
>
>For the past two years the only time I've used a floppy is when I needed
>an object to throw at somebody. I just burn a CD with all my iMac tools
>or I use an ethernet connection.

DISK FIGHT!!!

Someday I'm going to try that... probably during the graduation ceremony.
The lab might be a better place, but people are doing important stuff in
there all the time and they wouldn't appreciate being interrupted.

Actually, CD burners and ethernet connections are probably over the heads
of iMac's target market. Even though there is an ethernet port built in,
its only widespread home use is going to be games. Though I can imagine
a few ultrageeks installing Ethernet jacks throughout their house....
in fact, I know one who has already done so, and another who is about to
(me).

Nick S Bensema

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In article <78ad73$kc5$1...@hiram.io.com>,

The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com.guacamole> wrote:
>ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:
>
>>I think iMac has always been floppyless.... if you want removable writable
>>media, you have to get a USB floppy or zip drive.
>
> But they have handles, mang. Handles. So you can carry your fruity
>bowling ball with a screen around with you.

The new G3 machine, which comes in a tower case, also has handles.
You may have already seen Kibo's ASCII illustration. And it also
has a DOOR that allows you to get in its guts. Believe me, that'll
probably sell a lot of G3's. Ever opened up a PC? Ever had to
replace a CD-ROM that's between two other drives, and has a sideways
3.5" drive right next to it? Ever notice all the nooks and crannies
a desktop case has in its desperate effort to hold as much stuff
as a tower case? And ever notice how many weird assemblies and
brackets you have to shuffle around to get at those nooks and
crannies? Ever decide to forget the whole thing and leave your PC
case open to the elements, even if it means you have to blast your
TV to drown out all the cooling fans and spinning hard drives?

> Which reminds me of the C-128 manual, which shows a guy carrying a C-128
>on campus. The pic is labelled "The Commodore 128 at school". It doesn't
>explain how you lug the 27 pound disk drive, the 92 pound printer, or the
>108 pound monitor around with you. Because just the keyboard ain't gonna
>do you no good, unless you're swatting big ass flies.

You forget that the datasette drive is very lightweight, and Speedscript
works equally well on tape and disk. Also, the Commodore 128 hooks up
to any television set, and with a simple adapter can hook up to a
standard RS232 printer. And a few schools in the US probably have
rooms with both TVs and RS232 printers.

And you also forget the built-in display. But most people couldn't
use it because they weren't telepathic.

>They should also
>have a picture labelled "The Commodore 128 in the bathtub" and "The
>Commodore 128 in a brothel".

GIF! GIF!

> Dammit, Nick, stop making me post about Commodores!

You know you want to. Don't fight it. I'll still respect you in
the morning.

Tim Serpas

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Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
>Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
>bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

My floppy disk use:
At work: constantly.
At home: almost never.

Wretch

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ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:
>The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com.guacamole> wrote:

>> Which reminds me of the C-128 manual, which shows a guy carrying a C-128
>>on campus. The pic is labelled "The Commodore 128 at school". It doesn't
>>explain how you lug the 27 pound disk drive, the 92 pound printer, or the
>>108 pound monitor around with you. Because just the keyboard ain't gonna
>>do you no good, unless you're swatting big ass flies.

>You forget that the datasette drive is very lightweight, and Speedscript
>works equally well on tape and disk. Also, the Commodore 128 hooks up
>to any television set, and with a simple adapter can hook up to a
>standard RS232 printer. And a few schools in the US probably have
>rooms with both TVs and RS232 printers.

Look. The C-128 keyboard was easily twice the size of keyboards
nowadays. It's almost a full square, instead of the normal 18 inches by 5
inches or whatever [1]. Secondly, the datasette might be lightweight but
it's hardly useful, considering any program worth a damn takes 3+ minutes
to load. Finally, I doubt that any school in 1987 had classrooms with
TVs, let alone TVs sitting at the desks so each student can potentially
hook up their C-128, or watch Oprah, instead of listening to the lecture.

>And you also forget the built-in display. But most people couldn't
>use it because they weren't telepathic.

But if you opened up the keyboard you could peek inside and see the
display!

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Nick S Bensema wrote:
>
> In article <36A86D14...@erols.com>, Talos <Tal...@erols.com> wrote:
> >Nick S Bensema wrote:
> >> I dunno why... the floppy drive doesn't seem that unessential to me,
> >> but I guess that's just because I go to school.
> >
> >For the past two years the only time I've used a floppy is when I needed
> >an object to throw at somebody. I just burn a CD with all my iMac tools
> >or I use an ethernet connection.
>
> DISK FIGHT!!!
>
> Someday I'm going to try that... probably during the graduation ceremony.
> The lab might be a better place, but people are doing important stuff in
> there all the time and they wouldn't appreciate being interrupted.

I have lots of AOL disks you can use. Make sure you throw them like
those pocket sized frisbees Pizza Hut used to sell about ten years ago
(pointer finger on the edge of the disk to guide it) so it has some spin.

Another thing you can try throwing is mouse pads (MOUSE PAD FIGHT!!!).
Mouse pads are like Nerf(tm) floppies when it comes to office projectiles.

>
> Actually, CD burners and ethernet connections are probably over the heads
> of iMac's target market. Even though there is an ethernet port built in,
> its only widespread home use is going to be games. Though I can imagine
> a few ultrageeks installing Ethernet jacks throughout their house....
> in fact, I know one who has already done so, and another who is about to
> (me).

It may be over their heads but multi-player games (see: Marathon, Doom2,
Quake, or Unreal) are best over RJ-45 Ethernet connections :-)

>
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Nick S Bensema wrote:
>
> In article <78ad73$kc5$1...@hiram.io.com>,

> The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com.guacamole> wrote:
> >ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:
> >

> >>I think iMac has always been floppyless.... if you want removable writable
> >>media, you have to get a USB floppy or zip drive.
> >
> > But they have handles, mang. Handles. So you can carry your fruity
> >bowling ball with a screen around with you.

That handle is very misleading.

>
> The new G3 machine, which comes in a tower case, also has handles.
> You may have already seen Kibo's ASCII illustration. And it also
> has a DOOR that allows you to get in its guts. Believe me, that'll
> probably sell a lot of G3's. Ever opened up a PC? Ever had to
> replace a CD-ROM that's between two other drives, and has a sideways
> 3.5" drive right next to it? Ever notice all the nooks and crannies
> a desktop case has in its desperate effort to hold as much stuff
> as a tower case? And ever notice how many weird assemblies and
> brackets you have to shuffle around to get at those nooks and
> crannies? Ever decide to forget the whole thing and leave your PC
> case open to the elements, even if it means you have to blast your
> TV to drown out all the cooling fans and spinning hard drives?

Try opening a PowerMac 8500, it's a pain in the ass!

These new G3's look like crap but their fast as hell. I would get one
right now if I had the money (my excuse for everything).

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In alt.religion.kibology, Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote:
>In article <36A86D14...@erols.com>, Talos <Tal...@erols.com> wrote:
>>Nick S Bensema wrote:
>>> I dunno why... the floppy drive doesn't seem that unessential to me,
>>> but I guess that's just because I go to school.
>>
>>For the past two years the only time I've used a floppy is when I needed
>>an object to throw at somebody. I just burn a CD with all my iMac tools
>>or I use an ethernet connection.
>
>DISK FIGHT!!!

I don't think it is as much that you are in school as much as the fact
that you interact with people who use computers. The only time I use
floppies anymore is when people at work can't or won't learn to find
files where I specifically leave them on work's network server.

As for personal use, I don't use them because I don't move files that
small anymore or else I can't figure out how to make WinZip span disks,
and people get impatient when I jump into a DOS shell to move stuff for
them, even though it's quicker.

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smj...@my-dejanews.com (Duck Rogers) writes:
> Better yet, buy a CDC 6600.

Kibo and I usta own a CDC ETA-10G.

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> ) probably sell a lot of G3's. Ever opened up a PC? Ever had to
> ) replace a CD-ROM that's between two other drives, and has a sideways
> ) 3.5" drive right next to it? Ever notice all the nooks and crannies
> ) a desktop case has in its desperate effort to hold as much stuff

Buy a Mac and you don't have to open it up and see how they crammed it together.

Better yet, buy a CDC 6600.

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> ) > Better yet, buy a CDC 6600.
> )
> ) Kibo and I usta own a CDC ETA-10G.

FSU?

The Cyber203 (or, precyberly, STAR-100D) was more interesting: no
gurly-boy 32 bit arithmetic, no wussy 64 bit arithmetic. 65535 bit
arithmetic. It was purchased by the guvment, and they needed something to
compute the national debt on.

Cyber205 to Quadra 640. What happenned to my life?

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I demand a disk drive! Why don't we start a company and call it Cherry!

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On 22 Jan 1999 23:38:15 GMT, sta...@io.com.guacamole (The Avocado
Avenger) wrote:

>ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:
>>The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com.guacamole> wrote:
>

>>> Which reminds me of the C-128 manual, which shows a guy carrying a C-128
>>>on campus. The pic is labelled "The Commodore 128 at school". It doesn't
>>>explain how you lug the 27 pound disk drive, the 92 pound printer, or the
>>>108 pound monitor around with you. Because just the keyboard ain't gonna
>>>do you no good, unless you're swatting big ass flies.
>>You forget that the datasette drive is very lightweight, and Speedscript
>>works equally well on tape and disk. Also, the Commodore 128 hooks up
>>to any television set, and with a simple adapter can hook up to a
>>standard RS232 printer. And a few schools in the US probably have
>>rooms with both TVs and RS232 printers.
> Look. The C-128 keyboard was easily twice the size of keyboards
>nowadays. It's almost a full square, instead of the normal 18 inches by 5
>inches or whatever [1].

The keyboard I use for my xt is a full square, its spiffy retro
looking. Everyone will be using square keyboards in a few years!1
Imminent death of ergonomic keyboards predicted!!! Then I will throw
out my square keyboard and buy a circular one, because I am not like
those other guys!! I am always two and a half steps ahead of the
crowd!1 yeah!1

> Secondly, the datasette might be lightweight but
>it's hardly useful, considering any program worth a damn takes 3+ minutes
>to load. Finally, I doubt that any school in 1987 had classrooms with
>TVs, let alone TVs sitting at the desks so each student can potentially
>hook up their C-128, or watch Oprah, instead of listening to the lecture.

it really sucks that datasette was so bad otherwise in startrek there
would be an android called Miss Datasette and she would be 1000x
friendlier than DATA cuz she would be from CBM!!!!!!

>>And you also forget the built-in display. But most people couldn't
>>use it because they weren't telepathic.
>
> But if you opened up the keyboard you could peek inside and see the
>display!

hey, that wasn't a nice thing to do. now i have to put all the keys
back on.

>
> Stacia * The Avocado Avenger * Life is a tale told by an idiot;
> http://www.io.com/~stacia/ * Full of sound and fury,
> Remove the guacamole to reply! * Signifying nothing.

i have michaels dancing mouse in my computer iykwim aityd!!111

for stacia:
(repeat as many times as necessary)

10 V=54296:W=54276:A=54277:H=54273:L=54272
20 POKEV,15:POKEW,65:POKEA,15
30 FORX=200TO5STEP-2:POKEH,40:POKEL,X:NEXT
40 FORX=150TO5STEP-2:POKEH,40:POKEL,X:NEXT
50 POKEW,0

and for terri:
(repeat as many times as necessary)

10 V=54296:W=54276:A=54277:H=54273:L=54272
20 FORX=15TO0STEP-1:POKEV,X:POKEW,129:POKEA,15,POKEH,40:POKEL,200:NEXT
30 POKEW,0:POKEA,0

and for leah:
(repitition built-in!!!111111)

10 POKEMON
20 GOTO TEN

The third program I wrote for my 2nd grade programming class was a
star trek game where you shoot the klingon bops in your little nc-17.
The hardest part of making the game was getting the bg theme music to
stop conflicting with the photon torpedo noises i spent hours
creating!!1 In third grade I realized how stupid a game it was and
decided to make a game for serious older people!11 DINO ATTAK! THE
GAME WHERE YOU KILL DINOSAURS!!11 (set to star trek theme music)

AND REMEMBER: THE FRIENDLY COMPUTER COMPANY IS LOOKING OUT FOR YOU!

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haon...@my-dejanews.com (Noah A Christis) writes:

>On 22 Jan 1999 23:38:15 GMT, sta...@io.com.guacamole (The Avocado
>Avenger) wrote:

>>ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:
>>>The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com.guacamole> wrote:
>>
>>>> Which reminds me of the C-128 manual, which shows a guy carrying a C-128
>>>>on campus. The pic is labelled "The Commodore 128 at school".

[snip]

>>>And you also forget the built-in display. But most people couldn't
>>>use it because they weren't telepathic.
>>
>> But if you opened up the keyboard you could peek inside and see the
>>display!

>hey, that wasn't a nice thing to do. now i have to put all the keys
>back on.

[snip]

>The third program I wrote for my 2nd grade programming class was a
>star trek game where you shoot the klingon bops in your little nc-17.
>The hardest part of making the game was getting the bg theme music to
>stop conflicting with the photon torpedo noises i spent hours
>creating!!1 In third grade I realized how stupid a game it was and
>decided to make a game for serious older people!11 DINO ATTAK! THE
>GAME WHERE YOU KILL DINOSAURS!!11 (set to star trek theme music)

SSC: A cousin of mine made and marketed a game for the Commodore 64,
called "Bug Stomp". You were a giant boot and you stomped these big
ant-like things that were roughly the same size as your boot, only they
had legs and your boot didn't. It was simply disembodied. I don't
believe it even cast a shadow.
My cousin will now appear from nowhere and tell me it's my fault that he
died because I mentioned him on the group.

bea...@my-dejanews.com

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In article <788ulr$o6g$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>,

ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) wrote:
> In article <19990121221629...@ng42.aol.com>,

> Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
> >Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
> >bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?
>

> I think iMac has always been floppyless.... if you want removable writable
> media, you have to get a USB floppy or zip drive.

OHHHHHH *FLOPPY* drives! I've obviously been living
in the intensely futuristic world of 1999 for TOO
LONG! When Lots42 said "disk drives" I automatically
thought "hard disks". SILLY ME! I just thought,
"Stupid Apple computer company! Now they are selling
computers without HARD DISKS! SHEESH! Would they do
ANYTHING to go bankrupt, or what?". But I finally
managed to watch the new ad. I heard it one time
before, when the REALLY OLD Stones song "She comes
in colours, Like a rainbow" (FNARR FNARR!) was playing.
AND THAT LETS ME DEFTLY STEER THIS THREAD AROUND TO
USE MY FABULOUS NEW ACRONYM: She comes in colours,
because she is POLASM! POLASM! POLASM! It sounds
vaguely rude, doesn't it? POLAR ORGASM! Do it with
a PENGUIN! I'M DOING IT WITH A PENGUIN RIGHT NOW,
IKYWMF, AITYD!

Well gotta go! I have to find more threads to
steer around to POLASM!

cheers
beable van POLASM
beable industries
POLASM division
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In article <78da36$f4t$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <ren...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I demand a disk drive! Why don't we start a company and call it Cherry!

Right! Then we could make a computer called the Cherry 2000, and when
it broke it would make its users fall in love with Meg Ryan while
emailing our tech support department demanding inflatable spare parts
for their inflatable sex t^H^H^H^H^Hcomputer.

Andrew "or maybe Daphne Zuniga?" Jeanes

--
`Mister engineer, let a poor man ride the blinds
Well I wouldn't mind it fella but you know this train ain't mine'
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In article <MPG.11130878b...@news.seanet.com>,

sun...@seanet.com (Louis Nick III) wrote:
> In alt.religion.kibology, Nick S Bensema <ni...@primenet.com> wrote:
> >In article <36A86D14...@erols.com>, Talos <Tal...@erols.com> wrote:
> >>Nick S Bensema wrote:
> >>> I dunno why... the floppy drive doesn't seem that unessential to me,
> >>> but I guess that's just because I go to school.
> >>
> >>For the past two years the only time I've used a floppy is when I needed
> >>an object to throw at somebody. I just burn a CD with all my iMac tools
> >>or I use an ethernet connection.
> >
> >DISK FIGHT!!!
>
> I don't think it is as much that you are in school as much as the fact
> that you interact with people who use computers. The only time I use
> floppies anymore is when people at work can't or won't learn to find
> files where I specifically leave them on work's network server.

What? And then you will give it to them on a floppy? Why
not just email it to them, or email them a url to the
server? The only reason I can think of for using a floppy
in these circumstances would be if there was some HOT CHYK
and you thought that by pandering to her uselesness you
could make her POLASM! YAY! I GOT IT IN WITHOUT HARDLY
HAFTING TO SWERVE AT ALL!

> As for personal use, I don't use them because I don't move files that
> small anymore or else I can't figure out how to make WinZip span disks,
> and people get impatient when I jump into a DOS shell to move stuff for
> them, even though it's quicker.

I think you want arj.exe which can do multi-volume archives.
Of course, I don't do it that way. OH NO I DON'T! I ftp them
to a unix box, and use split thusly:
split -b 1420k bigfile lil
and then cat them back together on a unix box later:
cat lil* > bigfile

And as for that DOS shell stuff, POLASM! SORRY! THAT JUST
SLIPPED OUT! But that DOS shell stuff, I find that I can't
keep up with all this "clicky" nonsense that windoze
requires now. I also use DOS shell for most stuff. I really
cried when they made me use windozeNT and I couldn't find
the deltree command anywhere! Until I discovered that
rd /s DOES THE SAME THING! (Almost) YAY!

Anyway, I have to end this post now. It has run out
of POLASM potential!

cheers
beable van POLASM
beable indstries

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In article <78e8vl$9ue$1...@hiram.io.com>,

sta...@io.com.guacamole (The Avocado Avenger) wrote:

> SSC: A cousin of mine made and marketed a game for the Commodore 64,
> called "Bug Stomp". You were a giant boot and you stomped these big
> ant-like things that were roughly the same size as your boot, only they
> had legs and your boot didn't. It was simply disembodied. I don't
> believe it even cast a shadow.
> My cousin will now appear from nowhere and tell me it's my fault that he
> died because I mentioned him on the group.

I think that Gard Trask is safe from your jinx, because he
posts here somtimes. Also, I wish I didn't reply to this
post now, because I CAN'T FIT POLASM IN ANYWHERE!

cheers
beable van polasm
beable industries
--
Lady Astor: You're drunk!
Winston Churchill: And you, madam, are UGLY! But seeing as how
you're POLASM, I will OVERLOOK the ugliness
until the morning.

Nick S Bensema

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In article <78gjh4$mas$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <bea...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>AND THAT LETS ME DEFTLY STEER THIS THREAD AROUND TO
>USE MY FABULOUS NEW ACRONYM: She comes in colours,
>because she is POLASM! POLASM! POLASM! It sounds
>vaguely rude, doesn't it? POLAR ORGASM! Do it with
>a PENGUIN! I'M DOING IT WITH A PENGUIN RIGHT NOW,
>IKYWMF, AITYD!

Do you mean that you've installed Linux and are rilly rilly happy with it?

The Avocado Avenger

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bea...@my-dejanews.com writes:

>In article <78e8vl$9ue$1...@hiram.io.com>,
> sta...@io.com.guacamole (The Avocado Avenger) wrote:

>> SSC: A cousin of mine made and marketed a game for the Commodore 64,
>> called "Bug Stomp". You were a giant boot and you stomped these big
>> ant-like things that were roughly the same size as your boot, only they
>> had legs and your boot didn't. It was simply disembodied. I don't
>> believe it even cast a shadow.
>> My cousin will now appear from nowhere and tell me it's my fault that he
>> died because I mentioned him on the group.

>I think that Gard Trask is safe from your jinx, because he
>posts here somtimes. Also, I wish I didn't reply to this
>post now, because I CAN'T FIT POLASM IN ANYWHERE!

AIGH GARD TRASK IS MY COUSIN!!! WHY DIDN'T ANYONE LET ME KNOW?!?!

Michael Straight

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On 22 Jan 1999, Lots42 wrote:

> Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
> bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

Yep. Just like a WebTV, it has no disk drive whatsoever (hard or soft).

Which makes sense, when you consider they're owned by the same company.

SMTIRCAHIAGEHLT

Michael Straight

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On 22 Jan 1999, Nick S Bensema wrote:

> You forget that the datasette drive is very lightweight, and Speedscript
> works equally well on tape and disk.

Yeah, yer kewl, but did you actually type SpeedScript in by hand from the
magazine?

Michael Straight loves picking fights he can't possibly win.
FLEOEVDETYHOEUPROEONREWMEILECSOFMOERSGTIRVAENRGEEARDSTVHIESBIITBTLHEEPSRIACYK
Ethical Mirth Gas/"I'm chaste alright."/Magic Hitler Hats/"Hath grace limits?"
"Tight camel hairs!"/Chili Hamster Tag/The Gilt Charisma/"I gather this calm."

ren...@hotmail.com

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IMacs have only two things over every other type of computer. The packaging
and the colors on the monitor are superior. That would make the IMAC the
equivalent to a hicktown beauty queen.

Nick S Bensema

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In article <Pine.A41.3.95L.99012...@login4.isis.unc.edu>,

Michael Straight <stra...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
>On 22 Jan 1999, Nick S Bensema wrote:
>
>> You forget that the datasette drive is very lightweight, and Speedscript
>> works equally well on tape and disk.
>
>Yeah, yer kewl, but did you actually type SpeedScript in by hand from the
>magazine?

No, but I downloaded it to my Atari at 300 baud, which is close enough
when you're ten years old and don't realize you can leave the room
while the download is going on.

I actually can't believe anyone would sit down and type rows of
bytes, six at a time, printed in tiny little print from a magazine,
for pages and pages, rather than fork over the extra few bucks for
the disk edition.

Talos

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bea...@my-dejanews.com wrote:

<snip>

> Which brings me back to something else I wanted to
> say earlier in this thread: POLASM! NO SORRY! That's
> not it. If Imacs don't have floppy drives, WHERE DO
> YOU STICK THE LINUX BOOT DISK TO PUT A *REAL*
> OPERATING SYSTEM ON THERE???//?

Mk Linux and Linux PPC both come on CD's that can double as coasters
when you're finished loading it.

"At Intel, where many employees are true computer experts, the DP
department figures on one support person for every 30 Windows computers.
The DP department was astonished to learn that one Intel division had
120 Macs and got along fine with a single support person."
- Seattle Times, June 18, 1995
--

Talos

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Microsloth owns WebTV, not Apple.

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in amazement, I beheld wre...@dillinger.io.com (Tim Serpas)
write in alt.religion.kibology:

:)Lots42 <lot...@aol.comaol.com.> wrote:
:)>Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
:)>bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?

:)My floppy disk use:
:)At work: constantly.
:)At home: almost never.

THAT'S NOT A HAIKU!

my floppy disk use:
at work, when I worked: rarely.
at home: constantly.

HA! I AM BETTER THAN YOU! BECAUSE I SCAN!

--
cement jeans are asking buttoned-up farmhouses about patron ambiguity.
His Most Feathered Eminence, the Ur-Beatle

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In article <78h9dr$n0p$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>,

ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) wrote:

> In article <78gjh4$mas$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <bea...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> >AND THAT LETS ME DEFTLY STEER THIS THREAD AROUND TO
> >USE MY FABULOUS NEW ACRONYM: She comes in colours,
> >because she is POLASM! POLASM! POLASM! It sounds
> >vaguely rude, doesn't it? POLAR ORGASM! Do it with
> >a PENGUIN! I'M DOING IT WITH A PENGUIN RIGHT NOW,
> >IKYWMF, AITYD!
>
> Do you mean that you've installed Linux and are rilly rilly happy with it?

That is indeed what I mean. I got a new computer recently,
and put Linux on there. It was quicker to install Linux
than to do the initial boot for windoze98, where it asks
for the cd and then does something, I'm not sure what. But
that takes about an hour, whereas the linux install only
took about 30 minutes. The only problems I've got now are:
if I close the lid (it's a notebook) then when I reopen
it, the X-window system goes a bit screwy. This is easily
fixed by pressing ctrl-alt-keypad+ twice. Also, the PCMCIA
services have a bit of trouble recognising the compactflash
card out of my digital camera. If I plug it in and out a
few times, it seems to panic the kernel. (SO DON'T DO THAT
THEN!!). Ok, I won't. Apart from that, LINUX IS WONDERFUL!
It is SO much better than windoze, mirscoft must be crapping
their pants. FREAKS! THEY WEAR PANTS!

Which brings me back to something else I wanted to
say earlier in this thread: POLASM! NO SORRY! That's
not it. If Imacs don't have floppy drives, WHERE DO
YOU STICK THE LINUX BOOT DISK TO PUT A *REAL*
OPERATING SYSTEM ON THERE???//?

cheers

beable van polasm
beable industries
--

Kibologists call all other religions DICK HEADS. We feel that only by
toughening up people from other, sissy religions, are we able to grow
closer to He Who Greps. -- Lee Shelton Bumgarner

Nick S Bensema

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In article <78j0q3$hhg$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <bea...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>Which brings me back to something else I wanted to
>say earlier in this thread: POLASM! NO SORRY! That's
>not it. If Imacs don't have floppy drives, WHERE DO
>YOU STICK THE LINUX BOOT DISK TO PUT A *REAL*
>OPERATING SYSTEM ON THERE???//?

They have CD-ROMs.

I assume Red Hat will make a Linux CD that boots on the iMac, because
if they don't, everyone with an imac has to use MacOS, which nobody
likes. Right now Steve Jobs is pacing around Apple screaming at
programmers to get Rhapsody done faster.

Nick S Bensema

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In article <78iv49$g45$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <ren...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>IMacs have only two things over every other type of computer. The packaging
>and the colors on the monitor are superior. That would make the IMAC the
>equivalent to a hicktown beauty queen.

Three if you count that it's not a Wintel box, but that's about it.
And it does come with Internet Explorer, so it's really not as
Wintel-free as it used to be.

I would say "easier to get on the Internet" like everyone at Apple
claims but I have a bunch of CDs with flashy colored labels that
make the same claim. And I hope that Apple's definition of the
Internet isn't limited to one ISP, and if it is, that it ain't
AOL or, shudder, MSN.

bea...@my-dejanews.com

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In article <36AD0DF6...@erols.com>,

Tal...@erols.com wrote:
> Michael Straight wrote:
> >
> > On 22 Jan 1999, Lots42 wrote:
> >

> > > Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a

> > > bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?
> >

> > Yep. Just like a WebTV, it has no disk drive whatsoever (hard or soft).
> >
> > Which makes sense, when you consider they're owned by the same company.
> >
> > SMTIRCAHIAGEHLT
>
> Microsloth owns WebTV, not Apple.

OH LIKE *DUH*!!, TALOS42! IF THAT *IS* YOUR REAL NAME!
HE DIDN'T SAY THAT MICROSLOTH OWNS *APPLE*, HE SAID
THAT *WEBTV* OWNS APPLE! LEARN TO READ PROPER ENGLISH
YOU BIG MAC-LOVIN' FROOTCAKE!

cheers
beable van polasm
beable industries
--

I took mine out to polish it the other day, and before I knew what was
happening I had run out of the house and slaughtered my next door neighbour,
her dog, her two siamese cats, a parrot and a passing jogger who happened to
get in the way. I hate it when that happens. -- Eric of Melbourne

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In article <78ivcb$nq2$2...@nnrp03.primenet.com>,

ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) wrote:

> In article <Pine.A41.3.95L.99012...@login4.isis.unc.edu>,
> Michael Straight <stra...@email.unc.edu> wrote:
> >On 22 Jan 1999, Nick S Bensema wrote:
> >
> >> You forget that the datasette drive is very lightweight, and Speedscript
> >> works equally well on tape and disk.
> >
> >Yeah, yer kewl, but did you actually type SpeedScript in by hand from the
> >magazine?
>
> No, but I downloaded it to my Atari at 300 baud, which is close enough
> when you're ten years old and don't realize you can leave the room
> while the download is going on.

YOU COULDN'T!!!1! AND YOU STILL CAN'T!! STOP SPREADING
THESE VISCOUS LIES!!1! PEEPUL, IF UR DOWNLOADING STUFF
YOU HAFTA WATCH *EVERY* BYTE FLY INTO UR COMPUTER IN
THOSE SHEETS OF PAPER THAT WINDOZE USES! IF UR A MAC-
LOVIN' FROOOTCAKE, YOU HAFTA WATCH THAT LITTLE DOG
RUNNING ALONG WITH THE BYTES IN HIS MOUTH!

IF YOU DON'T WATCH IT WON'T WORK PROPERLY! ALSO,
CHANGE UR PASSWORD TO ******** SO THAT IT
DISPLAZE PROPERLY!!!1!

>
> I actually can't believe anyone would sit down and type rows of
> bytes, six at a time, printed in tiny little print from a magazine,
> for pages and pages, rather than fork over the extra few bucks for
> the disk edition.

The "disk edition" was only available in the USA wasn't it?
When I had a CRUMMYDOOR=64, I had to type stuff in by hand.
AND I DIN'T HAVE A DISK DRIVE UNTIL MUCH LATER NEITHER!
But a RILLY FUNNY thing I saw was I went over to the house
of this CHYK I worked with, and her little brother had a
CRUMMYDOOR=64. He had tricked his mother into typing in
some game from a magazine. He played it for about ten
minutes, and then got sick of it. So he turned the
computer off. BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE A TAPE DRIVE OR A
DISK DRIVE! SO THE GAME WAS LOST! The mother said,
"So can you play that game again later?" and the
little boy said "Nuh.". "Why not?". "bekoz it's not
saved!"

So I was cracking up laughing! I said it's a RILLY GOOD
idea to get a tape drive or a disk drive!

I remember when I got an amiga, and then it was possible
to buy a hard drive. I think a 20MB hard drive cost about
$1000. So I did the sums: 720K floppy = $5, 20MB hard drive
= $1000, FLOPPIES ARE CHEAPER, D00D! So I bought another
floppy drive for $150. GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK!
GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! SHUT UP YOU STUPID
FLOPPY DRIVE! And that was when 3 and a half inch floppies
were RILLY EXPENSIVE! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK!
SHUUUUUUTTTTT UUUUUPPPPPP!!! Why did they design the floppy
drive to go GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! all the
time unless you put a floppy into it? Freakin MORONS!

cheers
beable van polasm
--
And what on earth is alt.religion.kibology ?
You have to admit something about this thread, it has the most
eclectic or creative cross-posting I have ever personally witnessed.
-- Field Marshal D.J.

Nick S Bensema

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In article <78jl3e$21v$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, <bea...@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>But a RILLY FUNNY thing I saw was I went over to the house
>of this CHYK I worked with, and her little brother had a
>CRUMMYDOOR=64. He had tricked his mother into typing in
>some game from a magazine. He played it for about ten
>minutes, and then got sick of it. So he turned the
>computer off. BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE A TAPE DRIVE OR A
>DISK DRIVE! SO THE GAME WAS LOST! The mother said,

Once I wrote a really cool BASIC program of my own design, but
all my storage devices were frazzing out. I suggested to my
parents that they run down to my friend's house and borrow their
printer so I could type LLIST and print out my program. They
didn't go for it. So that program was lost forever. Wah.

>floppy drive for $150. GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK!
>GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! SHUT UP YOU STUPID
>FLOPPY DRIVE! And that was when 3 and a half inch floppies
>were RILLY EXPENSIVE! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK!
>SHUUUUUUTTTTT UUUUUPPPPPP!!! Why did they design the floppy
>drive to go GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! GRINK GRONK! all the
>time unless you put a floppy into it? Freakin MORONS!

That's how it told whether there was a disk in there, so it
could autodetect and the OS could load icons and stuff.

Because designs which simply checked whether the latch had
clicked were five times as expensive, because it would involve
putting in a switch.

Talos

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bea...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> In article <36AD0DF6...@erols.com>,
> Tal...@erols.com wrote:
> > Michael Straight wrote:
> > >
> > > On 22 Jan 1999, Lots42 wrote:
> > >
> > > > Seriously. Do the new fruity colored Imac computers (A.K.A. looks like a
> > > > bowling ball run over by a bulldozer) come WITHOUT disk drives?
> > >
> > > Yep. Just like a WebTV, it has no disk drive whatsoever (hard or soft).
> > >
> > > Which makes sense, when you consider they're owned by the same company.
> > >
> > > SMTIRCAHIAGEHLT
> >
> > Microsloth owns WebTV, not Apple.
>
> OH LIKE *DUH*!!, TALOS42! IF THAT *IS* YOUR REAL NAME!
> HE DIDN'T SAY THAT MICROSLOTH OWNS *APPLE*, HE SAID
> THAT *WEBTV* OWNS APPLE! LEARN TO READ PROPER ENGLISH
> YOU BIG MAC-LOVIN' FROOTCAKE!

Oh, rainbows. I like those.
I didn't know WebTV was that powerful.

Thanks (minus the FROOTCAKE part. What's a FROOTCAKE?)

> cheers
> beable van polasm
> beable industries
> --
> I took mine out to polish it the other day, and before I knew what was
> happening I had run out of the house and slaughtered my next door neighbour,
> her dog, her two siamese cats, a parrot and a passing jogger who happened to
> get in the way. I hate it when that happens. -- Eric of Melbourne
>

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The really funny part is: There is a switch. And that's what's used.
And there are patches that stop the clicking, and disk detection works
just as it should.

No, I have no idea whatsoever what it really does.

On a related note, there's a program that plays "El Condor Pasa" on the
diskdrive. That's scary.

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Please don't go to http://www.abo.fi/~dagren/
-> Legalize oregano! <-

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In article <78kunk$n...@josie.abo.fi>, Dag ]gren FYSI <dag...@abo.fi> wrote:
>On a related note, there's a program that plays "El Condor Pasa" on the

>[Amiga] diskdrive. That's scary.

Some Commodore 64 program alleged that they can make your 1541 disk
drive SING, at great risk of damaging the drive.

But 1541s were too valuable to risk, and today I can't find the
program on the FTP sites.

And I have a friend who could be driven to laughter by another friend
of mine impersonating all the funny noises a 1541 can make. And I
was driven to laughter by GRINK! GRONK! GRINK! GRONK!

ren...@hotmail.com

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> Three if you count that it's not a Wintel box, but that's about it.

Wintel boxes are only as bad as it's self limiting architecture. Which makes
it pretty bad.

> And it does come with Internet Explorer, so it's really not as
> Wintel-free as it used to be.

I found IE in my cereal box!

> I would say "easier to get on the Internet" like everyone at Apple
> claims but I have a bunch of CDs with flashy colored labels that

Everything about Apple is Flashy!

> make the same claim. And I hope that Apple's definition of the
> Internet isn't limited to one ISP, and if it is, that it ain't
> AOL or, shudder, MSN.

I had a dream once where I was using a MAC with an AOL account. I looked at my
reflection in the monitor and found that "They" had removed half my brain. :)

Joseph Michael Bay

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ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:

>I actually can't believe anyone would sit down and type rows of
>bytes, six at a time, printed in tiny little print from a magazine,
>for pages and pages, rather than fork over the extra few bucks for
>the disk edition.

What are you talking about, dood? I just recorded it off the radio.

--
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ecka-ecka fhtaghn zeeee-wop.
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Joseph Michael Bay

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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/4157/hampdance.html

The Avocado Avenger

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ni...@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:

>In article <78kunk$n...@josie.abo.fi>, Dag ]gren FYSI <dag...@abo.fi> wrote:
>>On a related note, there's a program that plays "El Condor Pasa" on the
>>[Amiga] diskdrive. That's scary.

>Some Commodore 64 program alleged that they can make your 1541 disk
>drive SING, at great risk of damaging the drive.

>But 1541s were too valuable to risk, and today I can't find the
>program on the FTP sites.

1541s are often seen being used as very attractive paperweights.

>And I have a friend who could be driven to laughter by another friend
>of mine impersonating all the funny noises a 1541 can make. And I
>was driven to laughter by GRINK! GRONK! GRINK! GRONK!

I imagine a lot of tongue acrobatics were needed to make a reasonable
1541 sound.
Also, please to note that soda + 1541 = fun for the whole family.

Nick S Bensema

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In article <78livh$qpr$1...@hiram.io.com>,

The Avocado Avenger <sta...@io.com.guacamole> wrote:
>
> 1541s are often seen being used as very attractive paperweights.

BY GIANTS! You forget how huge these things were.

>>And I have a friend who could be driven to laughter by another friend
>>of mine impersonating all the funny noises a 1541 can make. And I
>>was driven to laughter by GRINK! GRONK! GRINK! GRONK!
>
> I imagine a lot of tongue acrobatics were needed to make a reasonable
>1541 sound.

Hey, I... Damn, all of a sudden my straight line detector is going
crazy! I forgot what I was going to say.

> Also, please to note that soda + 1541 = fun for the whole family.

I remember reading a G-file from one BBS about a treatment you could
give to a floppy disk that would destroy any disk it was inserted
into.

Matt McIrvin

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In article <78l4kh$mim$2...@nnrp03.primenet.com>, ni...@primenet.com (Nick S
Bensema) wrote:

>And I have a friend who could be driven to laughter by another friend
>of mine impersonating all the funny noises a 1541 can make. And I
>was driven to laughter by GRINK! GRONK! GRINK! GRONK!

All I had (for a while) was the Atari cassette drive.

MOM Matt! Time for dinner!

/|\ Blllng blllng!

[MATT hits Record and Play.]