[Virtualacorn-list] Incompatible host

[John McCartney]

In article
<49368.91.85.218.30.1551631407.squirrel at email.orpheusnet.co.uk>,
   Bob Ardler via Virtualacorn-list
<virtualacorn-list at riscository.co.uk> wrote:
> John McCartney wrote:
> > [snip] That remembrance of [Peter Young's] was from the
> > track "Balham - Gateway to the South". Sellers narrated
> > it in a cod American accent as though it were a typical
> > transatlantic travelogue. He described Balham as a
> > "fairyland of lights, constantly changing from red, red
> > and amber, green, amber and back to red".

> Ah. As a from-Scotia SarfLondoner, one knew it as Ballum
> until a pseudo-yank re-pronounced it.

The same goes for me.

> Thanks for
> identifying the clown as Peter Sellers. Now a longtime
> NorfLondoner with periodic trips to Balham by
> fairy-lightless tube, one only thinks of it as
> Bayal-hayum.

Indeed.

> Thanks also for a break from 35 alarming discussions of
> Chris Newman's plight.

Think nothing of it.

> Seems that (self apart) only swotty computer scientists
> can use RiscOS.

Not so! Not so! It's the underlying machine which is
causing the problems for Chris, not RISC OS itself. 

> So far, the few (Windows-originating) troubles with this
> Shuttle and its predecessor have been sorted from up
> North by Andrew.

He's my local supplier; well, he's an hour and a bit north
which is quite close in our little world.

> Never heard of the A-to-Z of drives, partitions,
> filetype/extension problems, etcetc.

You need to get out more, Bob.

> A swearword user is not a swearword programmer, swearit.

Tsk, tsk! And at your age too...

:-)

John

-- 
John McCartney
j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk