[BITList] odd

[HUGH]

Frank,

I find it's sometimes possible to get a thing open by trying everything in sight.  When I had the HD with a corrupted file system, rendering all my unbacked up files unopenable (no access to them), the DVD with the recovered contents had a fair number of jpegs and other files that would not open by normal means.  I found that Internet Explorer would often open a duff jpeg, at least enough to let me see what it was, and it turned out everything had a backup somewhere.

Your comments on BASIC and compiling take me back a bit.  My machine runs BASIC - I just ignore the popup saying it doesn't - and I've still got all my old stuff from the 70s/80s on it and elsewhere.  Things I wrote in Kincaids run in a flash.  Due to the unaccustomed speed and power of the original shiny new IBM desktop machines that appeared one day, we had to insert loops in programs to slow things down - if I had the time I'd have to multiply their lengths by a couple of million now.  We had developed a program to print the screen - it took 20 minutes to print a drawing of the Eiffel Tower - before we got down to the compiling stage, software appeared on the market that did it a wee bit faster.  And we're still advertised as "silver surfers".

Hugh.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com/pipermail/bitlist/attachments/20100903/f9505d00/attachment.shtml