From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 21 21:43:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00270 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 21:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00264 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 21:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA18140; Thu, 22 May 1997 14:11:45 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705220441.OAA18140@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver In-Reply-To: <199705211746.KAA03594@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "May 21, 97 10:46:39 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 14:11:44 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > For a real fix, have a bonfire with all the ISA cards in your town. > > > > Burning them is less fun than many of the alternatives. I have been > > known to sell them to artistically naive members of the drug set for > > as much as ten times their market value; I believe there is a > > "techno-goth" (their terms) household around here that still has a > > matched set of flying CGA cards on their wall. > > Heh. I now have visions of Dali-esque sculptures created using old > ISA cards, a drill, a pop-riviter, and a blow torch. Hmm. The milk crate with 5.25" harddisk platters rivetted on as mock fish-scales? The christmas tree decorated with coloured ribbon cable, harddisk head assemblies and dangling ceramic packages? They put their angel/fairy sitting inside an 8" disk platter at the top. > Someone will probably end up a rich noveau artist off this discussion. IBM used to buy a fair amount of that sort of stuff and use it in their glossies. I used to have one with a picture of a pile of disk platters stuck in the spine of a sand dune, marching off into the distance. > Terry Lambert Oh, and that's "artiste", thankyou. 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[