On 12/03/2009 22:14, Ugly Me wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:27 PM
Subject: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.
Barbara Duprey wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Ugly Me wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory L. Forster"
<gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.
WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested:
Use for OpenOffice.org - 256mb
Memory per object - 128 mb
OpenOffice really sizzles now. I have an AMD Athlon X2 dual core
64bit
CPU at 2.6 Ghz with 4Gig memory and WinXP Pro SP3. I have to try
that
on my Ubuntu machine (1.6Gig Celeron with 512Meg)
To think that an old geezer like me felt I was really racing along
when I
upgraded my 16K 6502-based machine to 64K.
Times sure change, young feller.
Ah! Floppy A and B.....
These young whippers -- the Apple II+ that was my first PC, in 1978,
loaded and saved only with a tape recorder! Balancing the volumes for
the channels was quite a challenge. The mainframes I was working on were
better, but the speed and capacity were laughable compared to the
cheapest PDA today.
Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder....
The early versions of the BBC Micro (8 bit computer designed by the BBC
- British Broadcasting Corporation, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro) used standard audio cassettes as
its main storage medium. The BBC used to broadcast computer literacy
programmes on the radio. During these programmes it would send BASIC
source code which you could record using a radio-cassette recorder. You
could then then play the code into the micro and edit and/or run it (the
computer used a BASIC interpreter natively). If you edited the code you
could of course save your version to cassette for subsequent use.. This
in the very early 80's. Just like downloading an application over Wifi
today except you didn't need an internet connection which was handy
because hardly anyone had heard of the internet. Oh, the code
transmitted in this way was all free. I acquired any number of
interesting programs this way.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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