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In article <20070723.2111.834131snz@twoplaces.co.uk>
           simon@twoplaces.co.uk "Simon Turner" writes:

> On Sunday, in article <1185083416snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>
>      pete@nospam.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > Well, we're up to 925 characters now so it seems a pity to stop 
> > now...
> 
> 960 and counting.

And finished counting too!  This reply would have bust the 1000 
without intervention, though I have to admit it was rather more 
manual than I might have wished for; my original fix would have 
worked, though it was trimming references: _before_ replying :-(  
Somewhat too fail-safe --  a bit more work still to do on 
post_header()...

> > I suspect that as we are the only three reading the thread,
> 
> Not so!  (Even if only because my twoplaces.co.uk grep gets a hit from
> the References: line with each new post. 8-)

I had a little inkling that that provocation might flush out a 
lurker ot two ;-)

> > and 
> > that nobody else seems to be discussing anything else, we might 
> > just get away with it ;-)
> 
> Quite right too.  I have two (rather random) things to add: (a) it was
> *Algy* Lacey (Ginger was Hebblethwaite) (and, moreover, it was Algy who
> was the Honourable one -- Bertie was a Lord IIRC); (b) my father
> agreed about the Vulcan's manoeuvrability, describing it as handling
> like a fighter and being a wonderful aircraft to fly.

Re: (b) Having seen the Vulcan fly at various displays over the 
years, I'm not surprised -- though I guess when fully loaded it 
would have been somewhat more sedate.  Did your father have 
anything to do with the HP-115 or BAC Type 221?  Just being nosy.

> > Anyway, we seem to be drifting off into nostalgia, militaria and 
> > [auto]biographia so I'll duck out for a post or two until we hit 
> > the magic 1000-character long References...
> 
> Another couple should do it!

One was enough.

> > [rest snipped, not through irrelevance but to minimise my phone 
> > bill!]
> 
> You need to get the two halves of your ISP arrangements sorted out:
> news is *so* much faster by ADSL!

I don't doubt it.  I guess I could try to track down a wifi card 
for this DOS PC and the software to drive it, but likely I'd lose 
100K or more of conventional memory.  And I quite like keeping 
the two systems completely independent; not that the ADSL has 
ever failed, but if it did the low-tech dialup provides a useful 
alternative!

Pete
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