The TMA is looking for Webmaster Admin assistance!

[Rob DiStefano]

Currently there is one TMA person to webmaster admin the TMA website and forum - me.

The TMA requires at least two persons to maintain website and forum software.

The only requirement is having at least a very minimum basic understanding of HTML. 

Our forum software is SMF (Simple Machines Forums) which is relatively easy to understand, make changes, maintain. 

For the extreme most part, the forum software pretty much runs itself.  Making changes to the forum is on an as-need-be basis, which isn't very often, if at all for months at a time.

But IF software changes/issues arise with the website software (HTML) or forum (SMF) someone has to pick up the ball and tend to issues resolutions.

The TMA is a non-profit organization.  Any and all help is strictly on a volunteer basis.

Please PM or email me directly if you are interested or just want to know more about the TMA Webmaster Admin position.

Rob@TradMLA.org

Thank you!

 

[Winter Hawk]

Unfortunately my confuser skills have been dwindling at a rapid rate, the older I get.  Heck, I'm just lucky to find the on/off switch some days!  Otherwise I would be very willing to help out.  I hope someone else will pick up the ball and run with it here!
   

~Kees~

[Darren Haverstick]

I can help out, Rob.

Darren

[Bigsmoke]

Unfortunately my confuser skills have been dwindling at a rapid rate, the older I get.  Heck, I'm just lucky to find the on/off switch some days!  Otherwise I would be very willing to help out.  I hope someone else will pick up the ball and run with it here!
   

~Kees~

I feel you pain, Kees.  I kinda recollect times 50 years ago or so when I worked at a fair sized farming operation.  I did their payroll, data processing, developed programs and such.  A few years later, I got my own little computer and wrote an entire accounting system including sales, shipping, inventory, etc.  As the world of personal computers has advanced, my skill and understanding has retreated.  Now, making sure I know which button to press to turn the darn thing on  is about the top of my computer skills.  And you know what?  I don't really give a fat rat's derriere.  Stupidly, I updated my computer to Windows 11 and I am totally lost.  To my mind, it sucks swamp water.  Fortunately, I do have my own inhouse guru that helps me out from time to time.  I don't know how she got so darned smart.
Last year, I bought a data base program which updated one I used to use all the time.  I still haven't figured that out.

[Rob DiStefano]

... Stupidly, I updated my computer to Windows 11 and I am totally lost.  To my mind, it sucks swamp water.  ...

Load, or have some kid load the Linux Mint OS beside yer Win crap as a dual boot and enjoy the simplicity and speed and no nonsense.  It looks and feels lots like Win, is free, comes with a full suite of software that's compatible with Win apps.  Though I need to have a Win machine handy for customers, my other 3 machines are all Linux Mint.

www.linuxmint.com

[Winter Hawk]

I've heard and thought about Linux for quite a few years.  I may just try it this go-around, thanks Rob!

~Kees~

[Rob DiStefano]

I've heard and thought about Linux for quite a few years.  I may just try it this go-around, thanks Rob!

~Kees~

If you've been a Win user for any length of time Linux Mint will set you free.

[Winter Hawk]

I was perfectly happy with DOS, thank you very much.  Windows is just an attempt to make a DOS computer run like an Apple.  Plus of course, to force people to buy upgrades to their programs so they will run on the latest, greatest issue of Windows, or to buy the latest, greatest edition of W so they can keep running programs which are not supported by the older software.

~Kees~

[Rob DiStefano]

WinXX is a proprietary OS that is based on Apple "influence" research (aka "stolen" research).  These are both GUI OS platforms.  Graphical User Interface Operating System,

Linux, and all its derivatives is based on UNIX, which is a scientific, military, business, government OS.

Linux Mint or Ubuntu are totally FREE consumer grade Linus OS systems, complete with their own suite of apps that are compatible with WinXX.

Based on what one's computing app requirements are these dayze, there is NO way that any form of DOS will be either compatible or friendly.  DOS is dead.  Period.

Set up yer PC to select what device order to boot up in (1.USB 2.CD/DVD 3.Hard Drive).  This means that without an OS device in a USB port or CD/DVD disc, nothing will happen other than yer PC boots up into WinXX.  Put the Mint USB or disc in yer PC and boot up - it will default to the peripheral that has the Mint OS in it, and it will boot directly into Mint.  You will now be temporarily functioning off the USB or disc in a Mint demo mode - NOTHING is changed or added or removed from yer PC!  Check it out.  Click on the Mint install link on the home page, select it to be loaded along with yer current WinXX system.  When loaded, you will reboot your PC and you will be given the choice to boot into WinXX or Mint.

Most folks will read the above and say "what??  no way!!".  Understandable.  Go get a kid to do the above for ya.  Easy peasy, promise.

[Bigsmoke]

DOS IS DEAD??

Goodness, I guess there is not much hope for CPM then, is there?   

Frankly, I really liked my first computer.  It was a CPM machine with no hard drive, two disc drives and a built in 5" green tone screen.  No modem, either.  Pure simplicity in a 35 pound package.  Hah hah, they called it portable, too.  I ran two small businesses on it and it worked just fine.  When I got rid of it many years later, I just donated it to a computer museum.

For some reason, I get accused of living in the past.  Go figure.

[Hank in WV]

Rob took the words right out of my mouth.   

[Rob DiStefano]

There's far more power in the cheapest of cell phones (of which ALL are computers) than any DOS or CP/M computer, ever.  It is what it is.

When I was a database manager way back in the '70s a buddy in the computer room called to get me over to see the incredible new memory installed on one of our PDP 1170 machines.  I ran down and we both ooh'd and ahh'd as he pulled out the file drawer under the refrigerator sized computer and there before our gleaming eyes was box chock fulla 2 dozen 8"x12" sized chip filled boards ... a whopping 256k of memory.  Wow!  Awesome!  Yes, for 1970s.  Today, that amount of hard memory would take up half the real estate on a clothes fabric pin head.

So yeah, DOS and CP/M are both dead as the dodo bird.  That is, unless yer only need for a computer is to write text files and play pong. 

Back to the real world, yer basic choices are WinXX, AppleXX, or Linux, where each will have slight variations but each on its own proprietary hardware/software theme.

When it comes to data productivity, can Linux read/write all the WinXX Office apps?  Yup. So save all yer data files, images, videos, etc to a USB drive (CD and DVD are officially now old school and near dodo bird dead - it's all flashdrive media storage) and load back on a Linux machine. 

The one and only things that Linux is not great at is games and some multimedia software (high end pro audio, image, video).  SO, my only need for a WinXX OS is to run a flight simulator for r/c fixed wing practice, or to help someone with a website/forum on their WinXX PC.