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Yep- I'd love to have the Grouch back in OS-X. It would be SO cool with the new hardware and graphics. Oh, well, I'll just have to fire up one of the OLD computers now and then to get my Grouch fix. Katrina On 2004-12-10 19:07:46 -0800, Zorin the Lynx said: Isn't it sad how big corporations will sometimes step on things like this, which pose absolutely NO threat to them? I've always wondered why they do this. In the mid 90's they'd go after fan websites of their productions, until they realized it was bad press and stopped. Big corporations are truly cold and heartless, with only a few exceptions. { -Z Katrina wrote: I'm still bummed that "the Grouch" went by the wayside in System 7 or so. For those who never knew about it, "the Grouch" was a little program for Macs that modified the trashcan. When you put a file into the trash, Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street would pop out and sing "Oh, I Love Trash..." When the Muppets were bought by Disney, the Disney lawyers put a stop to it. I guess Jim Henson didn't mind, but Disney sure did. Katrina |
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Magic Mood JeepĀ© wrote:
I added a sound bite from a movie to a co-workers computer, and set it for their start-up sound. Said co-worker was NOT very computer literate, and the sound bite was from the movie Army of Darkness. It said in a very authortative voice: "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and ...things with molecular structures." She got a kick out of it. Next thing I knew, half the computers at work had that as a start-up sound! I heard it from at least 5 different cubicles one morning. Someone even put it on the IT guy's computer. He was not amused. It wasn't the sound bite that bothered him, more the fact that someone with keys to his office messed with his 'puter. Turns out it was *his* boss. I still have that sound bite, in .wav form if anybody wants it. Yes please, adrian at ailurophile dot org dot uk I can put it on my mother's computer. :-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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Yowie wrote:
I fondly remember the AppleII as well. I can even remember our school getting its first and not being allowed to join the resulting computer club... because I was a *girl*. My how things have changed.... Still, my favourite "computer" of all time would have to be the Commodore 64, if I coulad get my hands on one, and had *any* idea where all the cool games I had went, I wouldn't need an xbox. Vicky, you can get most games for the commodore and an emulator that should work with most programs (It really hates XP for whatever reason) on the net. If you start with http://www.c64.com/ you can find emulator sites and also download programs from that site, or from links it will send you to. Pam S. who is still fighting that nasty XP programing on her puter |
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Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:09:39 -0500, Kreisleriana wrote: Oh, I remember all kinds of silly stuff from then. I remember the washing machine screen saver. Back in the DOS days, there was a hotkey program that made this silly ASCII monster appear on the screen and go "Boo!" I got in trouble at work for that. But the Mac was much better for fun stuff than the PC. I remember setting the system sounds on a friend's MAC so that the gunshot went off and he jumped :P. There was also one called "Bing" which was a silly voice-- I think it was some Monty Python clip-- saying "Ahhhh, I see you have a machine that goes 'BIng!'" I used to work for a large corporation that made extensive use of email. I had problems telling whether my computer had just received a message, or whether one of my suite-mates had just received one, so I set my email notification sound to a clip from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_, where the soldier is hit by an arrow with a note attached. Thud! "Message for you, sar!" falls over. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQbutEjMYPge5L34aEQK1hwCgpAeu28ch0gCLO/cLzLL9ModK3g4AnAiI Qn84yhKKq9sX9v1MetlMEeEW =Aiv7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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