-------- Original Message -------- From: Harold Fuchs <hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com> To: users@openoffice.org Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:47:25 +0000
> 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. I still have my original (working) BBC Model B with a Solidisk 256K paged RAM/ROM piggyback board, plus a ton (well maybe 30kg.) of software (tapes, disks and books), collected and written over the years. Sad to say, it will be going to the garbage dump in the near future, due to my forthcoming overseas relocation. It will be like losing a much loved old friend. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
