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* GHOST.FMT
@ 0, 0 SAY "+-------------------------------------------------"
@ 0,50 SAY "+"
@ 1, 0 SAY ": -- MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR'S GHOST --"
@ 1,50 SAY ":"
@ 2, 0 SAY ": I wrote this program because I'm interested in"
@ 2,50 SAY ":"
@ 3, 0 SAY ": genealogies and computers. Being on a computer"
@ 3,50 SAY ":"
@ 4, 0 SAY ": should make it easier to pass on to following"
@ 4,50 SAY ":"
@ 5, 0 SAY ": generations because updating and distributing"
@ 5,50 SAY ":"
@ 6, 0 SAY ": it becomes so easy. I only wonder whether"
@ 6,50 SAY ":"
@ 7, 0 SAY ": dbaseII and cpm will still exist when it's my"
@ 7,50 SAY ":"
@ 8, 0 SAY ": grand childrens turn to keep the thing up to"
@ 8,50 SAY ":"
@ 9, 0 SAY ": date!! They'll probobly be updating it on their"
@ 9,50 SAY ":"
@ 10, 0 SAY ": wristwatch or god knows what else."
@ 10,50 SAY ":"
@ 11, 0 SAY ": Well I wrote this thing while living in Paris"
@ 11,50 SAY ":"
@ 12, 0 SAY ": in 1983 and Bill Graham who organised the first"
@ 12,50 SAY ":"
@ 13, 0 SAY ": French Osborne user's group (Osborne was the"
@ 13,50 SAY ":"
@ 14, 0 SAY ": first portable computer) suggested I toss it,"
@ 14,50 SAY ":"
@ 15, 0 SAY ": like a note in a bottle, into the seas and"
@ 15,50 SAY ":"
@ 16, 0 SAY ": rivers of public domaine software. Since you're"
@ 16,50 SAY ":"
@ 17, 0 SAY ": reading this now, it must have washed up on the"
@ 17,50 SAY ":"
@ 18, 0 SAY ": distant shore of your computer. If you like it,"
@ 18,50 SAY ":"
@ 19, 0 SAY ": hate it, use it or whatever I'd like to know so"
@ 19,50 SAY ":"
@ 20, 0 SAY ": please send me a note in a bottle: SAM WASHBURN"
@ 20,50 SAY ":"
@ 21, 0 SAY ": 3 Temple Place, Andover, Ma. 01810 U.S.A."
@ 21,50 SAY ":"
@ 22, 0 SAY ": TYPE ANY COMMAND"
@ 22,24 GET COMMAND
@ 22,50 SAY ":"