On Mon, 19 May 2008 09:45:56 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote:
> In article
> <94e8ba88-993b-4f45-a4e0-57f1b6d947a4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> salgud <davegbel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> On May 18, 10:01 am, Jolly Roger <jollyro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> In article <g0pj7l01...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> John Drako <jbravo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Out of curiosity, what are you looking for in the system folders?
>>>
>>> I'd like to know the answer to this as well.
>>
>> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jolly & John
>> Thanks for your concerns.
>> Newbie! Who's calling who a "newbie"? I've been working with a Mac for
>> 3 days now, almost. :)
>> I think you'll agree, it's a relative term. At the risk of sounding
>> arrogant, a little history.
>> I wrote my first code as a college freshman in 1966. Got my hands on a
>> PC in 84, bought one for home in 87. Was a beta tester for M$ on
>> Windoze 95 & 98 as well as Office 97. Got my M$ certification in Win95
>> in 97. Still write a little VBA code from time to time.
>> IOW, using these machines in one form or another for over 40 years.
>> New to Mac, yes. But not afraid. It's just another computer and
>> another OS. I would label myself a very advanced user, but not a
>> "systems" guy.
>> To allay your fears, I was looking for the system folder to implement
>> some instructions in "Switching to the Mac" to put a menulet to eject
>> a disk on the menu. I don't think I did any great harm, so far. If I
>> do, I'll restore the system as I've done on others many times in the
>> past, sometimes because of system failures, occasionally because of a
>> stupid mistake. Which I still make. But I've got TM up and running,
>> and my OSX disks ready.
>> This probably doesn't make you as comfortable as I am with my diddling
>> around. But if I somehow bring it all down, I imagine that some of you
>> will be here to help me get it back. It's just a damn computer! :)
>> Once again, thanks for your concerns. If all this hasn't impressed you
>> in the least, just let an old fool alone to his foolishness.
>
> Good enough for me! And I can somewhat relate. My first computer was a
> TRS-80 Model I, on which I learned Zilog assembly language and Basic
> programming in the early 80s. : )
My then wife bought a Trash80 for the family in the lste 70s. I think she
thought I'd do miraculous things with, maybe program it to mow the lawn. I
think for beginners, it was a great learning tool, but by that time, I'd
been programming in Fortran and Basic for a while, had access to a
mainframe, and saw it strictly as a toy. Nonetheless, I've known a lot of
people who cut their teeth on one.
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