[Coco] 16550 wasRe: RS232 paks

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 06 March 2009, richec wrote:
>On Friday 06 March 2009 01:03:46 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 06 March 2009, Mark Marlette wrote:
>> >Gene,
>> >
>> >I am glad that your memory has returned on this. :)
>> >
>> >Darn it, being arrogant...Again......
>>
>> A wee bit perhaps, but then the same can quite easily be said of me when
>> my technical feet are on solid ground.  I've even got a degree from the
>> University of Hard Knocks.  See at
>> <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/pix/UHK-diploma2.jpg>
>>
>> You can only get one of those if you have 'made it' in life without any
>> education above high school, and as only an 8th grade graduate, I
>> qualified with points to spare.  Oh, and they need a $100 bill, a donation
>> to the student loan fund at Alderson-Broddus College in Phillipe WV.  I
>> think the fact that you can spare the $100 bill is evidence that you've
>> 'made it'. :)
>>
>> I finally did get a GED too, also in the early 90's.  Took the test, they
>> said I'd hear in a week or so, I let 2 go by and collared the teacher
>> giving the test.  His reply to my question was "Why do you care, you WERE
>> just doing it for the exercise weren't you?"  He of course was right. :-)
>>
>> [...]
>
>That's great! I love it 8-)
>
I thought some of you might get a chuckle out of that.

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