[comphist] Re: The 8 bit world.

[Rob L. <la...@tr...>]

On Monday 30 September 2002 09:33 pm, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:

> > I'd like to point out that A) these were carpeted stairs, B) I didn't do
> > that.  (Although Namaur, the head cat at the time, did like to sleep
> > right behind the thing on top of the cables while I was using it. 
> > (Didn't bug me in the slightest, just wanted to feel involved, and liked
> > the heat it put out as well.)
>
> Actually, Namaur was in the safest place to be on the "percussive
> maintenance" front.  He'd be safe back on top of the cables if you *had*

She.

> decided to throw your C64 down the stairs, and he'd have adequate warning
> to move if you decided to pick up the machine or give it a whack in place. 
> (But then, we both know cats are an advanced life form, and had millennia
> to refine their act before humans even came into the picture.)  :-)

Slammed the heck out of the keys when it got key bounce (and I learned touch 
typing on a manual typewriter in 7th or 8th grade: chip used to complain I 
slammed his computer's keys.  Took years to stop doing that... :)

But I actually didn't whack the thing too much.  I treated it with 
approximately the care and respect I'd treat a toaster or vacuum cleaner.

Rob