On Wed, 22 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > I still want something like that. Booting from hd, even on Linux, > just isn't the same as flipping a switch and having a prompt at > about the same time. Oooo, who remembers the good old BBC mode b? Now there was a dumb computer, I mean, it was a crap games machine, but they were good machines just to play with, and you could even get a screen reader for them, on disk of course, or you could issue a whole load of *fx commands and vdu commands, and get the internal voice chip to do the speaking for you, if you could understand it. And then, of course, there was Wordwise... Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
