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My DSL is repaired but will only work if I'm hooked up to the modem via an ethernet cable.

I've tried, for an hour this morning and another hour tonight, to configure the Linksys wireless router (which I installed and have previously reconfigured a couple times). It comes up as configured and connected but won't let me go anywhere - everything times out.

I think the problem is internet security settings... that I have them configured, somewhere, for the wireless router too. I've checked, disabled, and/or reset everything I can think of but still can't get internet access via my wireless router.

Yes, it is making me insane.

Yep,  my prescription.  800mg each.

Pills

Here is an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P (C4P).  It used the faster version of the 6502 processor (Apple and Commodore used the standard version) had lots of RAM (for the time) and all sorts of ports built in.  Nevertheless,  it had no expansion slots.  Hence no 3rd party add in cards.  It was released in the Fall of 1979 and the Apple II+ was released a few months earlier in the Spring.  It never could catch up.

This one was a friends first computer (he also had the Black Apple).  He had used it for years before upgrading to the Apple.  I would imagine the upgrade was actually the diskette system of the Apple and RAM as the specs on the C4P were better otherwise.  But the C4P did have the nifty wood sides.

Unfortunately while in good cosmetic condition,  BASIC will not come up.  It did last time I had it powered up.  I guess time for troubleshooting.

C4p front

C4p rear

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it is possible I'd seen stand-up before watching Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, but if so, Richard made me forget about it.  RPLotSS was one of the first shows that incorporated performance into stand-up

Richard covered a lot of ground in 80 minutes. a meditation on love, loss and the difference between men and women:

NOTE:  I feel silly even mentioning this, but just in case.  This is RICHARD FUCKING PRYOR peoples.  offensive language is a given.  do not listen at work or at grandma's house.

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Him in recovery, crystals have been removed from his bladder, he'll probably get to come home tomorrow afternoon with drugs and the cone of shame.

Thanks for the thoughts.

HRTortie had a great night yesterday, being on FDaddy's lap all evening, sleeping on Mommy's electric blanket, and cuddling with me early this morning. I was under the covers with her, thinking about all the stuff I needed to do and worrying about TK, till I realized that I couldn't do anything about any of those things at that time, so the best cause of action was to go back to sleep petting the warm floofy purring tortie. The Zen of Floof got me another 4 hours' sleep.

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I'm putting it out here now...even though it's only November...
I mean if you can listen to Christmas music in Walmart in October...you will LOVE this!

Silent Monks "sing" the Hallelujah Chorus....

and he's earning his pay today. I'm getting a strong feeling that he can't find anything wrong.

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This will probably be my last post before I head out to spend a few days at the bottom of a big hole.

Grand Canyon

The weather is supposed to get cold and rainy/snowy on the Rim, with a 20% chance of rain at the bottom. If by any chance you want to follow my weather patterns, here's a link.

I think I'll stick with my original packing plan, maybe throw in some fleece pj bottoms and wear one of my light ski jackets instead of a spring jacket. Best to stick with light layers. The ski jacket is pretty much just a shell, but it's more wind and rain proof than my other jacket.

The beauty of it all is that we're staying in a cabin, bedding and toiletries provided, meals are included, etc. I'm not sure what I'll end up doing down there, but I can guarantee it won't be thinking about work, my schedule, etc.

Because this isn't a normal walk in the park, I'm also going to call MomH before I head down. Someone died yesterday on the same trail we'll be using to get out. Sure, he was an older gentleman, but you never know. I'm not sure what happened. When BrownAmazon was out here and we tried to go down the trail, some crazy chick in flipflops hit a patch of ice and I thought she was going to knock me over the edge. So I'll be careful, I promise.

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I'll post again on Sunday with pictures! Yay!

Was here at 820am. Had a device that sounded like spaceships. Made noises for about 15 min then left, saying he'd be right back. He left his parking cones so I guess I should be more hopeful.

I'm tired and have a wicked headache.

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Oh, well - I've forgotten the model numbers.  This is what happens when you take the time at a party to learn someone's name - you learn their name and make the whole evening special but you sacrifice some other random piece of information.  In this case, model numbers.

As far as I can tell, I used a PDP-10:

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(Taken by Ed Thelen of material owned by Computer History Museum under the non-commercial rule.)

Followed shortly by a VAX 11/780:

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Talk about good times.  I had access to these only because I was friends with the system administrator at school.  He set me up (I think I basically whined a lot until he did) with a user name and password.  My first user name and therefore email address ever was "tomato". I don't know why I chose that.  He said "What do you want for a user name?" and I spouted out "Tomato".  So I was known as "tomato" for a few years.  Whenever I logged in I'd hear "Hey, there is a Tomato on the system!".  I had email and was able to send/receive with a few friends that were online also - mostly right there at the school.

A few years ago a customer was walking through my company and he was talking about how he had made all of his money in the "internet" and how he had his first email address in 1988.  That's how he started his conversation.  It was like "How did you get rich in the internet?" and his first statement was "I had my first email address in 1988".  Obviously there was something else involved because I had my first email address in 1983 and I didn't make it big in the internet.  Of course, the internet wasn't really there yet so much back then.  I think there was ARPANET, etc - but I'm not going to go into all of that.

I didn't do anything really constructive on either of these systems at the time besides read newsgroups.  Later, maybe around 1987 I had to have a "real" account because I had a class on the VAX so the "tomato" account went away and I moved to something like just "wilso_d" or something else mundane.  At that point I was taking an operating system class and we had to write our own OS in something like C or Pascal.  It's all vague at this point, but none-the-less, this was my moment to both PDP and VAX systems.  Both were pretty good considering the time frame.  All text-based as I recall with dumb-terminals.  I think the world really was faster before the advent of fancy graphical user interfaces (aka Windows).

You can read more about the VAX here.