New Woodhaven site

it's NOT Woodhaven's issue, Hoyt. :) (I didn't have any problems with Netscape, viewing various pages at Woodhaven).

dave

Hoyt Weathers wrote:

oops! I changed the text and left in the smiley. My first draft, I teased you about having a Mac.

dave

Bay Area Dave wrote:

Hoyt W asked....

At noon EDT, the site was working fine using Windows and IE Mike (The other)Mike G.

Thanks for the smiley Dave. I wonder if other Wreckers are running Macs. I have been running Macs since 1987 when I returned from Saudi Arabia. I would not have a PC on a bet !

Hoyt W.

wassamatter, Hoyt, don't you want to line Billy's pockets? How can he divvy out all those grants if we don't line up to buy his crappy software?

dave

Hoyt Weathers wrote:

There are a few of us... ;-)

have a PC on a bet !

I just finished rearranging the basement office to get a Win XP box set up. First one I've owned since I started out with the VIC-20 many moons ago.

I'd rather not, but the school board here is all wintel and daughter heads to high school next year. It's still outnumbered by the three Macs, though.

djb

BTW, it loads here (Mac OS X 10.3.3, Safari browser).

What Mac OS, and what version of Netscrape are you running?

djb

Hoyt...

I'm curious... Where in Saudi Arabia were you and how long were you there? I lived in Dhahran and Abqaiq (Al Hasa Province) from '51 thru '61.

have a PC on a bet !

you had a vic-20 running Win XP? impressive...

You lost me there Dave. Were you looking at the same URL I was? BTW, who is Billy? Are you referring to W. Gates? Play nice now. Perhaps I am having problems since I am using DirecWay satellite Internet. I doubt that is the trouble however since I have never had this problem before. Hoyt W.

Dave, I am running Mac OS 9.2.2 and Netscape 4.79 on a G4 dual 450 with 1 Gig of RAM.

HMW

yes, I was referring to Gates. SOMEBODY has to buy his stuff so he can give away some money. IF you buy Apple, where's your hard earned money ultimately going? :)

I thought about the satellite but at about $70 a month it's too rich for my blood. plus the up front costs...

dave

dave

Hoyt Weathers wrote:

Are you

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Hi Morris,

I was at Dhahran for 3 years as a Senior Research Engineer in the Research Institute associated with the University of Petroleum and Minerals. I went there when I retired from NASA in early 1984 and returned for good in July of 1987. We shared a common fence with Saudi Aramco. I bet you were with the former ARAMCO and not Saudi Aramco. I went through Abqaiq many times when driving to Hofuff. I really miss the camel souqs and gold souqs in Hofuff.

O.T. comment: I have always admired your postings here.

Hoyt W. Trinity, Alabama USA

Porting to the TRaSh-80 was a bitch, though.

There ya go.

;-)

Interesting. There wasn't a university, or even high school, of any kind while I was there (I commuted to high school in northern Indiana in the fall; and returned in the spring).

As a kid, I enjoyed it all. ARAMCO (and the Saudis!) provided a good environment for families with kids and there was abundant opportunity to travel and learn about the rest of the world. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

I hope your memories are as good.

Thanks - don't be tempted to take any of 'em too seriously! (-:

Works for Internet explorer, works only marginally for Mozilla -- to even get to marginal you have to allow pop-ups from that site (there are no annoying pop-ups, but apparently some elements on the page are pop- ups. However, the tabs (for your ... , etc) across the top of the page don't work with Mozilla no matter what.

On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:54:32 -0600, Dave Balderstone brought forth from the murky depths:

That's it, alright. Brand new 1927 technology! Hoyt, upgrade to Nutscrape 7.0. It's stable and works well. Mozilla was unstable so I reverted to NN7 and use it along with MSIE6.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If God approved of nudity, we all would have been born naked. ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----

Do you remember the exact quote on the big sign over the road entering the ARAMCO village at Dhahran. . .the one about a switch engine crossing the multi-track crossing there and the consequences of your proximity !