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Miata Mailing List: January 1998, Message #4
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From: Sonja62786 <Sonja62786@aol.com> Subject: Re: XYZZY (was: Re: Bill C.'s Techline) NMC HAPPY NEW YEAR Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 01:36:09 +0000
In a message dated 97-12-31 23:03:04 EST, n6mod@miata.net writes: << At 2:21 PM -0800 12/31/97, Lanny Chambers wrote: >On 12/31/97 13:02, John Freas jfreas@gte.net wrote: >>God! How old do I have to be to know /that/?!! > >Old enough to have played FORTRAN Adventure on a dumb terminal? BTDT. >("You are in a maze of twisty little passages..." or "So, what are you >going to kill the dragon with, your hands?") Dumb terminal? Oh, us young whippersnappers played it on CP/M boxes. ;) So, what was the _other_ magic word? Happy New Year, everyone! -Zandr and Starbug, who now live in a maze of twisty little backroads, all different. "A dwarf throws an axe!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Aleksandr Milewski N6MOD n6mod@amt.org http://www.amt.org/n6mod/ '90 Crystal White "Starbug" MClub #220, BAMA #733, MCA #66238 Ben Lomond, CA Editor, BAMA Backroads -- >> ROFL... and a hollow voice says "Plugh!" ( played on a Raytheon 706 with Infoton terminals ... LOL.) O for the clang of the huge voice coils on them ole Coelus Drives HAPPY NEW TWISTY YEAR! Sonja and Old Blue