That's fine with me. I don't believe I have ever made a conference telephone call.

I believe the Radio Teletype interface device for the Commodore 64 was a Microlog AIR-1: http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3343/photo11t.jpg Image courtesy of antiquekid3 posted on The Vintage Computer Forums December 8th, 2009, 05:47 PM

Signed up for the beta test. I have Microsoft Flight Simulator FSX and FS2004 - Century of Flight and have enjoyed flying with my CH Flight Sim yoke.

Purchased a Commodore 64 and the tape drive at Sears. Learned some about Basic programing but never enough to encourage me to lean other programing languages. Overall experience was great, Eventually I sent for a interface device that would connect the Commodore 64 to my ham radio and decode Radio Teletype over the air called ACT?. I thought for that time the program that came with the interface the graphics were excellent. I believe the RTTY program had a 'cross-hair' tuning indicator, much like a oscilloscope used on RTTY Terminal Units that used vacuum tubes: http://www.qsl.net/n4xy/Images/Electronics/Ham_Radio/RTTY/rtty_electrocom-402_fsk_tu.jpg

For one Microsoft Flight Simulators 2004 and FSX. Yes there is X-Plane for Linux but I didn't like that flight simulator. Also some Ham Radio software, one being a good SSTV program for Linux, QSSTV has not been updated for years and have issues with trying to receive SSTV with QSSTV. Using Wine with Linux sometimes does not work for some of the ham radio software.

Could the lists be archived on http://www.archive.org/ ?

just sharing an anecdote

Worked at a radio repair shop 1980 to 1990. When the first cell phones came out they were the size of a briefcase and mounted in a trunk of a vehicle and the antenna mounted on the roof of the vehicle. The handset mounted on the center hump next to the driver was somewhat like a Princess phone. Mostly doctors and lawyers at that time were able to afford purchase of a cell phone and air time. One doctor came into the shop and he wanted to have the cell phone radio removed. The radio/cell phone was installed about a month earlier. We asked the doctor why he didn't want the cell phone. He took out a device that measured for microwave oven leaks and placed that device near the ceiling of his vehicle, the alarm sounded, then he said this thing is frying my brain, take it out. So we obliged him and removed the radio/cell phone.

A few months ago purchased a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB Internal drive. The drive offers hybrid storage with Adaptive Memory technology, enabling the drive to deliver higher capacity and SSD-like performance. I am very satisfied with increased performance from the drive especially running Microsoft Flight Simulator FSX, very little pausing effect while 'flying' with the same settings used in a ATA serial drive I had before.

I use the cable tie method using stick on mounting squares and loose loops of the ties under the desk.

In the twin cities of St Paul/Minneapolis have Coborns Delivers. Very good service for $5.00 each delivery. The truck delivers once a week, if not home and there are items that are frozen or need to be kept cold they pack the frozen items in dry ice and then a compartment with dry ice to keep other items cold. Also there is a liquor delivery service, Merwin Liquors that will deliver for free with limitations. Also local tobacco store will deliver a carton of cigarettes for $5.00. I don't use either the liquor delivery or cigarettes but the Coborns Delivers was nice when I didn't have a vehicle and the weather was cold.

I don't watch Hulu or Netflix or much Televison. If anything I like to watch Space Shuttle blast off and landings on NASA TV on my 32 inch LCD. I am 72 years old. I spend a lot of time on the internet or on ham radio digital modes on 20 meters and playing with Microsoft Flight Simulators FS-2004 and FSX.

Just purchased a new motherboard, Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P with a Phenom II X4 965 3.2 GHz chip yesterday. Windows XP Professional seems to load faster on this new board. In the process of installing all my software again.

Seedy "adult" theaters are disappearing, blame the internet!

Same problem, called the number listed by telephone to activate Windows XP Home with a new motherboard. Explained that my other motherboard was fried, and could not be repaired. Also explained that I was senior citizen living on fixed income and that I was using the same hard drive as before and that I was not trying to cheat by having two copies of Windows XP home. Reply was "sigh, OK this one time we will let you reactivate the license". How good of him!!!! I understand that under Vista they may allow reactivation as they said some users like to update the motherboard and hard drive. Any one else read this?