Author: Lin Harper
Date: 13:58:30 12/31/00
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On December 31, 2000 at 12:14:34, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear Fernando and CCC, > > >This is a good time to be alive. I am going to get myself a brand new computer >sometime this year. She will have twin "golden orb" cooling fans on her dual >AMD 1 Ghz brains and she will also have dual 256 Mb 400Mhz memory modules. I >will be certain that she will get a monster 100 Gbyte serial ATA fast transfer >hard drive and that she will have DVD,CD-RW,3DFX Voodoo 6500 video with 128 Mb >video memory and dat she will have a very nice 21 inch hi-res monitor to look >good. I am sure that she will be blessed will deep Shredder and deep Tiger and >deep Fritz 7 and dat she will have no problem getting a high 2600 elo rating. > >As for seeing an asteroid, I can not nor do I wish to see one heading for us. My >telescope only does the 15th magnitude and most of the asteroids that pose a >threat to us are one hundred times as faint. > > Yes, this is a good time in history to live. I'm a little on the wrong side of 50, wish I was born later, but..oh,well. I fear I won't be around long enough to see the computer advancements much past 2025 or so. I'm confident I'll see a time when humans no longer have any real chance for more that the occasional draw against good freeware chess engines, in full length games. >Tim "I know how to treat a lady" Frohlick > > > > >On December 30, 2000 at 11:17:36, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Tim: >>I have the feeling that you will be the amateur astronomer that will discover >>the first the great asteroid coming in to splash the Earth. It is the least you deserve after so many cold nights out there. In that case, give me a phone call to prepare my luggage. > > >>My best wishes for 2001. >>Fernando > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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