Lose95 ;-) [read it, you'll see what I mean... ;-)]

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 05:26:16 PST
From: "Bob Turnbull,DTN 297-9593,MRO1-2/J18,Multia Hardware Engineering  04-Apr-1996 0826 -0500" <turnbull@example.com>
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Subject: FWD: (wakawaka) FWD: :-) Simple caveman needum printer help...

Mark, do you know this guy?  He says he works at Sandia...

>From: Nina Eppes  02-Apr-1996 0941 <eppes@example.com>
>Subject: :-) Simple caveman needum printer help...
>
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>
>This is said to be an actual request for help on a newsgroup...
>
>>
>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>Subject: Simple Caveman needum printer help
>>
>>Me caveman, simple folk.  Want hook-up two printer, two computer.  OOG,
>>let me scratch on cave wall:
>>
>>_________  _________  | P5-90 |
>>LPT1       | P5-60 |  | Win95 |\
>>        |   Win3.1|   |       |  \  |
>>        |  ---------  \ ----|----
>>      ? |      \                    | LPT1 to 1284D
>>        |       \                   |
>>    __?_|____    \   to 1284C   ____|____
>>    | Djet  |     \_____________| Ljet  |
>>    | 855c  |                   | 5MP   |
>>    ---------                   ---------
>>
>>Gottum 1284C, 1284D cables to Ljet HP 5MP many moons now, work like
>>bear-bone charm.  Two computers talk to HP Ljet, share-share-alike.  HP
>>Ljet 5MP like EPP, like talk to P5-90, P5-60, say "me here! me busy! me
>>needum paper!"
>>
>>Then Djet 855c join home last moon, much powerful magic.  Needum make
>>P5-90 talkum to Djet too.  Don't like way me change printers now ...
>>gottum shut down P5-90, change cables, reboot.  Win95 stink like big pile
>>mammoth dung, many flies, much bad wind.
>>
>>Me think me just add new parallel port, LPT2, on little card.  But evil
>>spirits lurk; not many IRQs, caveman afraid change soundcard IRQ from 5,
>>for evil Win95 never saw soundcard, will kill or hurt soundcard if find
>>out.  Need LPT2 me can assign any IRQ.  Me see FarPoint makum extra
>>Parallel port card, but FarPoint say no good with evil, evil Win95.  Me
>>want EPP port, most card not EPP, or have all manner expensive junk me no
>>want.
>>
>>Or maybe can use fast serial with HP 855c?  Gottum extra serial port on
>>855c, made for funny fruit computer (Appletalk?  Me never hear apple talk
>>in all days as caveman, travel many many lands).  Gottum extra unused
>>16550 serial on P5-90.
>>
>>Win95 bad, bad medicine.  Stink like ground sloth with mange.  MS try make
>>like fruit computer, computer think it know what caveman want, really just
>>do random thing it want.
>>
>>---  Harlan W. Stockman    hwstock@example.com
>>hwstock@example.com
>>
>>Me no really Caveman, me stodgy 41-year-old scientist.  Me pretend be OOG
>>so people actually read story.
>>


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