Re: The Rantings of Harold Hislop

[cplater@rattlehead.pass.wayne.edu (Charles A. Plater)]

Sam Ismail (dastar@crl.com) wrote:
: Harold Hislop (harold.h@genie.com) wrote:
: : 'Dr' Tom,

: : FWIW, I've been receiving a fair bit of email about this flaming... it 
: : has so far been running at least 10 to 1 in MY favor. mostly from people
: : around the world whom I have repaired hardware for, or assisted in such
: : repair by supplying missing tech info.

: So?  All you're saying is that people who you have done favors for are
: re-paying the favor by patting you on the back for some stupid flaming.
: You're the jerk here for letting them get off so easily.

I would think that what he is saying is that since Harold is not the
person who has been shown to sector edit commercial programs and then try
to release them as freeware, and since Harold has helped many legitimate
users with very difficult hardware problems, that he is more respected in
the legitimate Apple II community.


: : Also, all of your email to me is immediately forwarded to Richard
: : Bennett, for review and potential inclusion in his TURKEY.HTML (that's
: : HyperText Markup Language... I figure an explaination is due you)

: : That page is regularly updated, and can be quickly and hilariously

: Gee, isn't that subjective, since you're the guy who did the page?
: I'm sure Chevy Chase thought his talk show was hilarious too, but
: that didn't keep it from being cancelled only four weeks after it
: started.

That's the great thing about the internet, pages usually arent canceled
for their content.  I have not seen this page, and I don't even have the
URL, but I can only imagine that it is funny.

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