>>>>When I started we didn't even have electricity.
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>>>>>Toggle switches? Nope. Rewire, dude, rewire.
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>>>>>>Command-line on a console, with CRT and keyboard?!? Toggle switches on front panel is the way to go!
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>>>>>>>Edlin??? Children's toy. Real programmers use COPY CON:
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>>>>>>>>>Thank you again. If this BSOD happens again, I will take a picture of the screen and then Google for more information. And if that does not work will download the reader. (and to be honest I am not staying away from using VS2012; I decide to switch to Edlin for my ASP.NET development <g>; I am so scared of BSOD)
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>>>>>>>>There is a new version of Edlin called Visual Edlin, you know ;-) (Line stolen from Steve Black).
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>>>Mike .. did you come across another programmer named Blaise Pascal?
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>>He was a little before my time ;-) I did know a Blaise Mitsutama (she is still active on Facebook) and a Fabian Pascal.
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>>Fabian, now there is a trip down memory lane. More like a walk through a bad neighborhood. He irritated about 100 times more people on the old CompuServe FoxForum than Steve ever did. Steve could be inflammatory, no doubt about that, but he was always pulling the oars in the right direction and contributed a great deal to the FoxPro community. Fabian was a provocateur who had no higher purpose on the FoxForum than trying to impress people with his blinding intellect and causing trouble. I don't remember whether he got booted or just decided his work there was done.
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>Remember him well. Was pre-Google so had no idea who he was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Pascal
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>Jeff Winchell both gone and forgotten.

I had lunch with Jeff when he was teaching a class in downtown Chicago at the same time I was working at a client down there. Cliche of cliches, he was a nice guy in person. He also had, and hopefully still has, a cool wife. When Northwestern made the Rose Bowl I bought a sweatshirt for him at his request. They were on sale everywhere within a 50 mile radius of Evanston. She was the one who sent the check and signed it "Mrs. Jeff."