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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: John Poet on October 12, 2011, 1706 UTC

Title: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: John Poet on October 12, 2011, 1706 UTC: Too much irony here... with the FRN poised to try to save themselves by copy-catting one of the features of 'those other trashy forums':

http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/005078.html

I guess 'If you can't beat em, copycat em'!
Title: Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: Fansome on October 13, 2011, 1633 UTC: It's called "Rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic".
Title: Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: Pigmeat on October 13, 2011, 1852 UTC: You're a mean one,Al.

Where have you been?
Title: Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 13, 2011, 2012 UTC: Next thing you know, Pat Murphy will start a blog.
Title: Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: Fansome on October 13, 2011, 2208 UTC: Actually, I think the new look of the FRN is entirely appropriate. It does look a little out of place as a web page; I think it would be more at home on, say, a Datapoint, or Hazeltine, or even a Teletype terminal.

Quote from: Pigmeat on October 13, 2011, 1852 UTC
You're a mean one,Al.
Title: Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: Kage on October 15, 2011, 0208 UTC: Quote from: Fansome on October 13, 2011, 2208 UTC
Actually, I think the new look of the FRN is entirely appropriate. It does look a little out of place as a web page; I think it would be more at home on, say, a Datapoint, or Hazeltine, or even a Teletype terminal.

Quote from: Pigmeat on October 13, 2011, 1852 UTC
You're a mean one,Al.
How about a set of punch cards? :P
Title: Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
Post by: Pigmeat on October 17, 2011, 0910 UTC: This is going to date me,but at my first real job I had to learn to operate a punchcard machine. Then they taught me a super-secret computer language called "Fortran". I understand it's declassified now.