[Coco] talk funny

[Steve Ostrom]

I'm from the upper mid-west so I might be a bit biased, but I seem to 
remember that many national newscasters in the US need special training 
to talk "mid-western", which seems to be some sort of standard for 
broadcasting.  Does this mean that we in Minnesota are sort of a melting 
pot of accents?  I know we have some funny expressions ("you betcha", 
"pop" instead of soda, "hot dish" for that hot mixture of food served in 
one pan", etc.).  How would you non-Minnesotans describe our accent?

On a second note, reviving the discussion of Coco / PC file transfer, 
how difficult would it be to connect an external 5.25" drive to an old 
IBM laptop running MSDOS or Windows 3.1 ?  Newer PC's seem to like 3.5" 
drives only, and this might be a convenient way to make transfers.  
Mark, without taking you away from your more pressing Coco projects, is 
this something you can do easily?  The 5.25" drive would need a cable 
and a power supply I guess.

Happy Holiday, everybody !!

-- Steve --



Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 10:34 AM 12/23/2003 -0800, you wrote:
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>> Then there's the opposite extreme, Roger.  That's when you want to 
>> relax and take the slow lane, and find that there are always a few 
>> that want to go 5-10 mph under the speed limit.  Up here in the 
>> Northeast corrider on I-95, trying to blast yourself into another 
>> lane to get around them is  just as unnerving as bumper to bumper at 
>> 75.  Driving seems to be a no win situation unless you carefully plan 
>> your route and time of travel.  Then there's upstate NE .... aaaaahhh 
>> ... don't relax too much and fall asleep.
>>
>> Griz 
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> The way people talk
> The way people drive
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> It's nice to know that the whole world is dealing with the same issues.
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