User talk:Mboverload/Archive 8

Early Chicago computer club
Hi, thanks for all your efforts!!!

Not sure if you wanted me to answer via your talk page.

AFAICR (made that up - As Far As I Can Remember) the Chicago computer club I was involved with was C.A.C.H.E., the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists Exchange.

I believe there was a meeting approx Apr '75, begun by Robert Swartz, who was lucky enough to be able to affort a "Digital Systems" original 8080 "box" - and the CP/M operating system.

(Digital Systems was right up the road from Gary Kildall (the CP/M guy)so they got together. - One making a rugged box and the other the OS for it).

The "hobby" as I see it really took off with the MITS Altair on the cover of the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.

[Back to Chicago Club] SO one day reading Pop'tronics, I noticed a piece saying there had been a computer club in the Chicago area, naming the people who attended, and saying when the next one was. As I recall it was Lloyd Smith (now my best friend) formerly of Dyer IN, and Bill Burther, Valparaiso IN (R.I.P.).

SO we rode together to that possibly 2nd, or perhaps 3rd meeting (? Sept 1975) and I was hooked.

MY involvement with the club was to be an "active participant" in that for ex. I was sec'y for many years, wrote programs to maintain the mailing list, help with the newsletter, often whipping up a small newsletter myself when no one else helped (this was one of the events that led to the invention of the BBS). I brought my system in to show, back when maybe one in 10 actually HAD a system.

My home system consisted of an Altair 8080, to which I had added a Selectric Typewriter and Dynastor FLYING HEAD disk drive (a whopping 256K, yes, KAY). I had to (1) teach myself digital electronics; and (2) design and create the board to interface to these uniquely-mine peripherals (Ex: Type a char on the selectric (terminal) and watch what came in - on an oscilloscope) THEN program the altair to "produce outputs that matched that timing", learning that -- gasp-- IBM put the parity bit at the opposite end of the word than most of the rest of the world!)

My machine also -- once "video" became available (I skipped the "TV Typewriter" phase), a 16 x 64 display called a Processor Technology Video Display Module. (and no coincidence, the BBS Randy Suess and I invented and I programmed, had a 16 x 64 size message limit at first).

THEN my world opened to assembler programming (not hand assembling or some other hack) when Processor Technology came out with a paper tape-distributed editor and 8080 assembler. (I seem to recall it having 4 things, but don't recall now.)

I modified the PT Asm to run on cassette tapes (The "Tarbell" having become a standard) and called the combination of things the "CACHE Cassette Operating System" (CCOS) and several people in the club started writing assembler programs.

SO anyway, the club had a huge variety of machines represented - from the "boards" - Kim-1, ?? Trying to remember if the Apple-1 was a "board" - I think so --and the little Sinclair "pocket calculator" sized ones from TI or with a TI chip.

When the Radio Shack computers came along, many of us pioneers thought "this is the end of the hobby". What we meant was, for example (maybe an extreme example) - I could design and make my own boards, AND write the BIOS routines to run them, etc, and THAT was more the fun - so someone buying a "built" machine seemed kind of sad. However, this is the march of time, and I'm sure the "Hams" (amateur radio enthusiasts) felt a bit the same way as more and more products came along making it easier and easier to "talk over the air".. I eventually - and somewhat delinquently - adopted the PC, but by then had pretty much "burned out" programming as a hobby, and did not make a LOT of contributions in that area.

____ END _____ of my thoughts on the club, is this what you were looking for?

Just to "come to a better close" -- the fact I'd done my own HW meant incompatability, so I invented MODEM.ASM (named -- and it stuck -- Xmodem by Keith Peterson) to be able to "beep" things back and forth with friends;

Then the BBS came about as ME thinking a dial-in system to gather articles for a newsletter, but Randy Suess suggested a club project would be "by committee" so just the two of us - him HW and me SW - did it, independently of the club. — Preceding unsignedcomment added by WardXmodem (talk • contribs) 00:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC) WardXmodem (talk) 00:10, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

El Pino
Unfortunately I saw your warning concerning the article I created (El Pino - The Pine Tree) too late, since I'm living six days a week in a place without internet access.

Yes, El Pino is real and a natural landmark of the East L.A., extensively featured on movies like Taylor Hackford's Blood In Blood Out (Bound by Honor) and several internet websites. It's not a simple neighborhood tree, since it's tall and stand still in a property previously owned by one of the first dwellers of the area, mr. Okuno.

I will create again the article and provide the most references I can, ok? Please, let me know anything. --Mr. Nighttime™ (talk) 23:14, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, if they're sources then I have no issue. --mboverload @ 00:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Scientific Models
Clearly you're looking for the Annals of Improbable Research's columnist "Symmetra". She was always described as "scientist/supermodel". She was on the cover here. And wrote a column. (Perhaps she still does. My subscription lapsed a couple of years ago.) APL (talk) 20:49, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Stop!
It's bad for your health!

—  Ree dy  06:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * What hair-brained schemes have you come back to attempt to get me to do? :o —  Ree dy  08:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a topic secret scheme. I'm going to have you hack into conservapedia, edit the Barack Hussien Obama page to say "I LOVE TOSTINOES PIZZA ROLLS" and then lock the database. --mboverload @ 17:55, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Eric M. Jackson
Seems to have been created as a vanity page. I was going to move it ("Dr." doesn't belong) but I'll take a 'wait and see' for the CSD first, as there seems to be no point otherwise. Zelse81 (talk) 05:25, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Cool. Just wondering, what criteria would you have CSD'd it under, if you would have? --mboverload @ 05:27, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Hard to say. I actually wasn't entirely sure which was why I didn't mark it as such, but I think yours is not unreasonable as it certainly /reads/ like a fluff piece, but doing a quick google was confounded because there's another, far more notable Eric M. Jackson, who was one of the people who started Paypal.Zelse81 (talk) 05:28, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the recognition!
Dear Mboverload,

I really appreciate the recognition. I'm curious about looking into a DYK for the article, and maybe even GA or FA down the road (it will need a good copyedit first, preferably by someone with better Spanish language skills than myself). I'm familiar with the processes as a reader only, and I have not tried to put any article through that process. Can you help me start, or should I just have a good read through the project pages? Thanks!

TFCforever (talk) 02:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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Why do you want to delete my page?
Why do you want to delete my page? It is about a musical I wrote, Whats the problem? —Precedingunsigned comment added by DefyingGravityForGood (talk •contribs) 06:08, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

My apologies
The article did not need to be deleted; I just created and was going to add more detail to it. Albert Easmon was more prominent than his brother JF Easmon and sources back this up.

--Wikiaddict6989 (talk) 06:25, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Let The Records Play (Musical)
I see that you tagged Let The Records Play (Musical) for speedy deletion under CSD A9. Unfortunately for some reason that criterion is specifically for musical recordings, and the article gives no indication that this has been recorded. For this reason I have declined the speedy deletion, but I have openedArticles for deletion/Let The Records Play (Musical) instead. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:35, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

revert on Pittsburgh penguins
Your revert on Pittsburgh Penguins was reinstating vandalism the IP had just removed, please read what was deleted before reverting Yoenit(talk) 09:04, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, I didn't read the whole paragraph. Thanks! --mboverload @ 09:06, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Google
Use it next time before throwing speedy deletion tags on articles. Faceless Enemy (talk) 09:59, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The article did not assert the importance of the subject. An administrator agreed and deleted the page.--mboverload @ 21:15, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Ross's Landing Enter your new article name here
Hello Mboverload, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Ross's Landing Enter your new article name here, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. — m o n o   01:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Environment of Virginia
You're welcome! Mostly I hope this can be elaborated on by other, more knowledgeable editors, so if you have anything you can add or touch up, please! I've only mostly taken pieces of Virginia and other related articles and cobbled them together there. I've wanted to have an article like this for some time now, and its still not what the state needs, but its a start.-- Patrick {o Ѻ ∞} 22:57, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

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why are you saying my edits are bad
i did nothing wrong i made a page
 * Don't play innocent. You almost got a block last time you tried to do this. --mboverload @ 07:25, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * And now you are blocked. --mboverload @ 20:30, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

user:G. B. Singh
Thank you. The phone rang at the critical moment. --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 20:29, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

G.B.Singh
I am going to make it again, 20:35, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'm not really involved...am I? --mboverload @ 20:37, 11 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Can you give back my page, I worked so hard on it  Jon Ascton    (talk)  20:44, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi Jon, as far as I know I have absolutely no involvement in this. Please contact the administrator, User:Anthony.bradbury. I was just helping an admin who missed a talk page that was left behind. I have no opinion either way on your article. --mboverload @ 20:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Awesome article
Thanks for James Cant Ranch Historic District. A great new article! --mboverload @ 21:07, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks!--Orygun (talk) 21:31, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Re: Thanks!
(the Farm to Market stuff) You're welcome, glad to help. Now if I can just figure out that Inkscape/path stuff...not having much luck. I can put the graphic together eventually, but the rest seems to be a ?? ...oh well, I know how to post articles at least :D Awtribute (talk) 05:22, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

E. Matthew Buckley
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Talk:Joel Kinnaman
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archived article response
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Studio 54
Thank you, thank you for jumping into the fray. I feel like I have been the only one trying to keep this user from pasting the same information over and over, for going on a year. It's good to have someone else on the lookout now. ;0)  --  O liver  T wisted (Talk) (Stuff)  05:40, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
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Eminem
Can you answer here? Talk:Eminem --David-bel (talk) 13:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

masturbation
um... my point was that THE PICTURE WAS PORN. I understand that Wikipedia is not censored. But THE PICTURE IS PORN. It is a picture showing a person masturbating. There are no exhibitions in other encyclopedias. DrStrangelove64 (talk) 18:30, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it's a picture describing the subject of the article. --mboverload @ 16:07, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Correction of Series's to Series'
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