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Re: [APD] Time to move on?



Ah FidoNet.... Where did you go?

On 10/17/07, Stuart Halliday <stuart at mytriops_com> wrote:
>
> I believe Raj wrote this email section below:
>
> > I think that APD old timers should initiate a new FAQ on aquatic
> planting.
> > I think that it will keep us busy for some more time.
>
> People rarely read FAQs without prompting.
> They exist so that people can say - Go read the FAQ in a smug tone! :-))
>
> One of the reasons we started the Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia. Anyone can
> put the FAQ in there, you don't need any special web knowledge.
> http://theaquariumwiki.com/


That would make sense at this point in time.

> As I'm from the old IT world when a 4K bytes was a *lot* of text these
> sites
> >> are very wasteful.
> >
> > The Basic language interpreter required only 4K or less to run!
>
> That's after my time. I had to work with a computer that had 256 bytes of
> RAM. You could upgrade it to 512 bytes for a large sum...
> Cambridge Mk 14 IIRC.


Hmph. I thought I was in this for a quite a while with my first access to a
machine was either a TRS80 or Commodore PET.
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