Apollo BBS Archive - December 1988

Apollo BBS Archive - December 19, 1988



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Message: 4951
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Daryl
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 01:53:51

How nice of you to offer to host a shooting GT.  How fast can you run?
A moving target is more of a challenge, you know.

Message: 4952
Author: $ Daryl Westfall
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 07:25:16

Nah, I'll just stand there, for the benefit of those who can't hit the side
of a barn with an elephant.

Message: 4953
Author: $ Ralph Blehm
Category: Question?
Subject: Ann
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 12:09:18

Cliff why was Ann sentenced
to DOOM??????????????
                =)) SHOOT THEM ALL RALPH ((==)) Type at you later - RALPH

Message: 4954
Author: $ Sandy SYSOP
Category: Answer!
Subject: Ralph
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 15:24:33

        Ann, dared to try the Mighty SySops' patience .......
I left some software at her house by mistake and she foolishly
demanded a ransom .......
        Will she ever learn?

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Message: 56094
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Neal
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 02:37:49

I know what catalytic converters use as catalysts. It was the car salesman
that told his customer "plutonium," you dunderhead.

Message: 56095
Author: $ Nick Ianuzzi
Category: Question?
Subject: Petrisko
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 02:38:38

Where's Kirsten?

Message: 56096
Author: $ James Hawley
Category: Answer!
Subject: Last
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 06:31:36

Who's Kirsten?

Message: 56097
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: In search of
Subject: Work...
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 10:37:11

        Things are a little slow here...  Make that a whole lot slow!
This "Gemini" business is not working out since the closing of the store.
Here I can offer LOWER prices, and no one is taking me up on it.

        We still can get hardware and software...  We still repair clean and
service computer hardware...  So where is it?   You got me....?

        Anyway, I need work...anyone got a Job?  Looks like I will be taking
up the "I will work for food" picket soon!

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 56098
Author: Mark Harsma
Category: Bulletins
Subject: New BBS
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 10:54:35

        There is a new BBS up and running in Scottsdale called Computer
Pro feel free to give us a call at 949-8865.
                        Barker..........

Message: 56099
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: For sale
Subject: 80 trk drive
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 11:01:42

        Abandoned repair work:
        An 80 TRK MPI full height drive wirh external heavy duty power
supply.  This drive was brought to us for repair.  We replaced a board and
aligned the drive.  The repair came to $61.68......  anyone can pick this up
by paying the repair bill.  (This was used with a TRS-80 machine)

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 56100
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: For sale
Subject: 24 pin printer
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 11:16:12

        A 24 PIN printer... wide paper width up tp 16 inches, Friction and
Pin Tractor feeds, 228 CPS draft an 76 CPS NLQ, Serial and Parallel
interface, IBM graphics (Pro-Printer) and lots more!

        This unit is set up on display at the SANYO reps in Scottsdale..
Can be seen and played with...  by appointment.  price to move at $395.00

(That is a good buy, list on that model is $899.00 and Dealer COST $500.00)

Sanyo PR-241 24 Pin Printer Wide.... $395.00   ((One Only))

Message: 56101
Author: $ Todd Reese
Category: Question?
Subject: for Calculus fans...
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 12:21:20

The problem:
 
F(X)=LN X  (Natural Log of X)
 
Find F'(X) using the formula LIM  (F(X+DX) - F(X))/DX
                             DX->0 
Where "DX" is Delta X.
 
I've been over it a thousand times.  I know the answer is 1/X, but I don't
know the proof.  The teacher just grins, and the book doesn't have the proof
either.  Any help or suggestions?

Message: 56102
Author: $ David Burkhart
Category: Question?
Subject: BBS
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 17:20:20

Could someone tell me the phone number of Speedball's Realm BBS?  I left it
in San Diego.  In fact, I may not need it -- I left my password there too,
and I'm not totally certain I remember it.

Message: 56103
Author: $ Chris Neal
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ianuzzi
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 17:33:50

It is 'Mr.' Neal to you!

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Message: 56104
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Politics
Subject: Chomsky
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 18:01:26

  Or we might consider one of the early exploits of our most
favored client state, the massacre on Oct. 28, 1948 at
Doueimah, an undefended town north of Hebron in an area
where there had been no fighting.  The massacre was conducted
by a unit with tanks, leaving 580 civilians killed according
to the accounting by its Mukhtar - 100 to 350, according to
Israeli sources, 1000 according to testimonies preserved in
US State Department records - including 75 old men praying in
a mosque and 35 families, of whom only three people escaped,
in a cave outside of the destroyed town where they took 
refuge.  The conquest of the town - but not the massacre -
was noted at once in Israel's major journal, *Ha'aretz*, in
a report on the conquest of "historical sites" from the days
of Bar Kochba and the Romans, "renewing again the connection
between the people of Israel and the Land of Israel."  
Israeli military historians say that the affair is known,
though not recorded.  The first report appears to be in a 
letter in the Labor Party journal *Davar* (Sept. 4, 1979)
by a kibbutz member who deplores the "ghetto mentality" of
those who refrain from expelling Arabs.  He cites eyewitness
testimony by a participant who alleges that women and 
children were killed by crushing their skulls with sticks and
that people were blown up in houses, among other atrocities,
"not during the heat of battle" but "as a system of expulsion
and elimination."  The story was finally unearthed by a
correspondent for *Hadashot* in 1984 and presented as newly
discovered.  Historian Yoram Nimrod writes that the 
background for this slaughter, and the general attitude of 
the time that "the Arabs and their possessions are fair 
game," can be traced to the attitudes of the leadership, who
wanted the Galilee to be "free ((literally, "clean")) of
Arabs" and asserted that "for the Arabs of the Land of Israel
there remains only one function: to flee" (David Ben-Gurion),
that the country must be "homogeneous" and hence with as few
Arabs as possible (Moshe Dayan), and who insisted that the
Arab civilians who had fled or had been expelled "cannot and
need not return" (Chaim Weizmann), or even be settled nearby,
even if this means rejecting peace overtures (Ben-Gurion).
  Nothing comparable to these early post-independence
atrocities against the indigenous population in the US and
Israel can be charged to the Sandinistas.

Rod, God & Bob Bulletin Board command:O

Williams, Rod

Message: 52
Author: $ Apollo SYSOP
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Last two...
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 05:24:42

        See the NEGATIVE crap you spew out!  No wonder we as a planet
never can get anywhere.  Wallow in your own pity and get nothing done
is your motto.  At least Christians *TRY* to make it a brighter place. 
At least Christians give people a smile and HOPE.  All you give people
is doom and gloom.   I feel so sorry for you!

*=* SYSOP Cliff *=*

Message: 53
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Shit-Chat
Subject: last
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 20:54:05

        There was no gloom or doom in any of my messages.  I do not
wallow in self pity.  There are a whole lot more people who are worse
off than both you and I.  
        As far as getting something done, well.....I work on it.  I
have been communicating with Congressman Jon Kyl among other things.  I
have a lot of plans and what little time I come out with (after working
to pay the bills), I don't waste.  Sorry that you interpret my messages
in that light.  I cannot or do not see from my messages what can make
you feel that way.  Must be the printed word or something.
        Don't feel sorry for me, there are many others who may be
more comfortable with someone feeling sorry for them.  But not me, I am
fine.
                                Rod

Message: 54
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Question?
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 20:54:44

        So, when are you gonna crash this SIG?

Message: 55
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Rod's thoughts
Subject: A Diety
Date: 12/19/88  Time: 20:58:02

        You know, it would be great if there were a God.  Not only
for me but for my childrens sake it would be nice.  Then it would all
be so simply.
        I wouldn't care about the hardships here if that were the
case because in the end I would just be zoomed to heaven to spend all
eternity and wouldn't that be nice.  Yes, just get through 50 or so
years and spend the rest in bliss.  I do so wish it worked like that. 
Unfortunately, I do not believe in those fairy tales.
        Mankind has to make this a good place to live because no one
will do it for us.
                                        Rod