Subject: Re: Hmmm... very strange!

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:53:24 -0400

From: Ron Kiyomura <Ron_Kiyomura@compuserve.com>

To: Rod Larson <rodl@scc.net>



Message text written by Rod Larson

>Ron,

Don't worry about techno-babble.  I am an EE from M.I.T. but an old fart

too (class of '66).  My computer s/w training is Mostly Assembly Language -

C++ is for sissies, ha!<



Ha!  You preceed me by about 10 years or so.  (I feel young again at 50!)

I am a newbie compared to you as I have only been doing this sort of stuff

for around 21 years.



I started in hardware repair and ended up in support when Tandy Computers

decided that I had outlived my usefulness.  I got a job as part of Wang

support at McDonnell Douglas and ended up being the last system

administrator there.  Currently I am working with IBM Global Services as a

backup adminstrator for a NCR and a Perkin Elmer system.



 The only system that I did any real programming on was the Wang VS system.

 And even then it was mostly Wang VS BASIC and Wang VS Procedure Language

stuff.  Soooooooo.....  What I did was on a level even lower that sissie

stuff compared to you.



I still keep my hand in hardware as I build my PC from boards and stuff

that I get at the computer shows that happen all around the Los Angeles

area.   The main thing that stops me now is that my eyes aren't as good as

they used to be.



I am not pilot myself, but I still like to study and read about the older

aircraft.  I used to do some amateur glamour photography but my medium

format stuff is just too unwieldy for aircraft photos.  So I end up using

my old 35mm for much of my airshow photos and this year I decided to wimp

out and even got a Minolta Point and Shoot (28-70mm) for when I want to

travel light.



Good to meet you!



Ron



P.S.  BTW, you can always test your code by creating a subdirectory on you

system.  Create the directory, put copies of all of your HTML files there

and just point your browser to the main page of your website in this

directory instead of connecting to the net.  When everything works, upload

the files to your server.  When doing it this way, the 'send me a note'

part of your page will open a new window that will allow you to compose a

message.



I used Netscape to open your site with the Composer part of the browser and

basically sucked in all of your files from that page into my PC.  All I had

to do next was do a save as to a local directory on my machine and I had a

replica of your stuff.  It does come across just a tad differently, but so

long as the code is valid, it should work nearly the same.



This is how I figured out how to do much of the code on my site.  :^)

