Recent content by Terry Yager

...from Chigagoland. Still flat on my back, since late March. Condition deteriorated in a hurry when the spinal cord somehow sustained further damage. Can't say much cause the Dragon software still not performing adequately, so I'm typing with a pencil eraser. Latest Dx, "incomplete...

Notorious pack rat in Saginaw, MI parting with fair-size "collection" (term used with some reservation), yours for the gittin'. Take all or nothing, no cherry-picking. The only compensation I require is knowing that it all goes to good home(s), not landfill. If there's stuff ya don't...

Might be worth a look... http://rt.com/news/prime-time/apple-computer-museum-moscow-157/ --T

Well, I finally got around to installing my not-quite-vintage copy of Dragon Point & Speak on this computer last night, then spent all afternoon "training" it to my voice, etc. Thought I'd share the results of my first 'official' test, a reading of a favorite lyric by Mark Bolan. This is what I...

It was bad enough when those idjits at Apple saw fit to do it for that draft-dodging hippie, Steve Jobs. I don't really expect them to know any better anyways, and it was just at Apple locations, so they only shamed themselves. Now I see that the Governor of The Garden State has ordered that my...

...if she's so damn famous, how come I never heard of her before? So I tune in the evening "news" (tough to say that with a straight face), to try and get a handle on how long it'll be before we invade Terroristan (again?) with anything heavier than CIA sneakers on the sand, what with embassies...

TRS-80 Pocket BASIC Handbook, by William Barden Jr. Published by Radio Shack, 1982. Guess I should give this away, but I gotta keep you guys honest somehow. Ten Buck$, shipped. A real bargain, last time I sold a copy of this book on eBay, it brought $30s and change. Must have for the Trash 80...

The hugantic 60Gb drive on my new(est) hand-me-down (tnx, Sheila--you're a doll!) laptop is giving me claustrophobia. Looking for a somewhat larger capacity (PATA) one on a limited budget. Good news is I gots lots of vintage gear to swap. Pm me what ya have and mebbe what stuff ya might be...

Hercules brand, 8-bit, bad memory (soldered, 8 chips total). Got a few chips, but not enough for the whole board. Cost of flat-rate envelope. FCC ID EW65T5HerculesGRK. First to hit my pm wins. --T

...into the black hole, aka, my spare room. It's a hard card, 11 1/4" length (fits Tandy 1000???). The drive is Fujitsu, model M2227D2, controller Seagate, forget the model . I'm pretty sure it was RLL, but currently formatted to 20mb MFM. Worked the last time I used it, but that was two...

Or, why does it top the auto-completed list whenever I enter the term "define:" in a google search box? Disclaimer: Don't try this at home, kiddies, or if your delicate adult sensibilities may be easily offended. --T

Had some business in Flint today, so we stopped by the thrift store. Nothing much to report, found a new toy robot and another Billy Bass to add to the collection. The Billy is a little different from the others, has on a Sanity Clause hat and sings Jingle Bells, et. al. The real score of the...

Take it any way ya like...profound wisdom from the keyz of your favorite Village Idiot Philosopher Savant or Musings of a Madman, this seems neutral enough for this venue. When shown half-a-glass of water, the optimist sez the glass is half full pessimist sez the glass is half empty...

Tnx for the pointer DLO, but not quite what I need to know before I get really wound up. Mainly, I need to know what's taboo here (besides the usual stuff, cc codez, kiddie porn, classified govt documents, etc). How bout politics, aka governmental stupidity. And what govs? Local? State...

My friend down the street, FNG Bill just backed his Ram up the driveway and dropped off a sorta vintage looking Zenith 25" console. Dunno if the set still has all the majik smoke inside, but the cabinet is f'n bootiful, kinda a darkish pecan finish, so even if I hafta gut it out, the box is a...