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    Your answer to question number one is wrong! The correct answer is one.

By the way I have some of the same Papyrus stickers that the driver ran. I'm
amazed
you missed the obvious answer. Papyrus also had stickers on some cars that
didn't
run in the cup races.

If you want to know who wrote what manuals I suggest you ask Steve Smith.

Not that I'm Papyrus' number one fan but you have also been wrong on a
couple of
other posts. After spending time at their shop and seeing things first hand
plus talking
with employees I did get a bit of an insight into what was going on.

I'm not interested in a pissing match because whats the point in *** a
dead horse.
When I came to the conclusion that Papy was dead in the water I was verbally
pummeled
for expressing that view.  The writing was on the wall many years before it
happened.

Pete

     I know of those stickers......and they weren't even fender contigency
sponsorships(which EA has done for approx. half or more of the field for
years)
 Papy just did in-car camera shot buys.

  I'm not the least bit interested actually.

Not that I'm Papyrus' number one fan but you have also been wrong on a
couple of  other posts.

  K.  How so ?

After spending time at their shop and seeing things first hand
plus talking
with employees I did get a bit of an insight into what was going on.

I'm not interested in a pissing match because whats the point in *** a
dead horse.
When I came to the conclusion that Papy was dead in the water I was verbally
pummeled
for expressing that view.  The writing was on the wall many years before it
happened.

  Yep.

But I agree that without his track and setup tips, the manual would've
been pretty run-of-the-mill.

-Will

Heh, well, even my Dragon ownership only dates from around 1996,
though I did know about OS/9, and a very impressive achievement it
was too. My general retro preference is for the BBC Micro, though - I
have a Model B+ - basically a B with the disk controller and Shadow
RAM as standard, the latter meaning an end to the chronic memory
problems that any serious graphics programming produced on the
original machine. One of these days I may even learn 6502 assembly
properly! (The Beeb had an inline assembler capability you could use
from within BASIC programs.) Oops, I must restrain myself before I
really start to go on about the BBC. ;P

In the 1980s I had a ZX81 and then an Amstrad PCW. The latter was
marketed as a word-processor, but ran CP/M Plus, which to people like
me was far more interesting thanks to the great heap of CP/M software
around that was given a new life in the mid-late 1980s by the PCW's
success. Not that I was all that good a programmer, but my experience
there has meant that I don't run away screaming at the very sight of
a command line. ;)

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    You never mentioned contingencies. :-) They did give some money to one
lower division car but I have forgotten his name.

    On how decisions were made and who made them. The "guy" at the
top made the decisions. One look in the parking lot told me who was calling
the shots. The staff turnover of key people started very early in their
history.
    If you don't pay people they don't stay.

    Pete

  Not interested in the least actually.

  k.  How so ?

 After spending time at their shop and seeing things first hand

  Don't follow what you're even talking about here; Papy ?  Examples ?   I'm
wrong in how decisions were made, is that what you mean ? .......though I
don't recall stating anything about "how decisions were made"....

  But I can see how it would be confusing.

  Anyway, the point is, EA spent WAY more money, over WAY more time, on
Nascar than Sierra/Papy ever did.   Thats Sierra/Papys fault; they made that
choice too.

-Larry

-Larry

The BBC was my "dream machine" of its day, but those were even harder
to come by in Germany than the Dragon 64 (which was the first computer
I *owned*, not the first to hack on, just to clear things up). I
scooped up the Dragon 64 for a meagre 500DM (half of the price tag for
a new machine) from the local bank when they switched their computer
lab to microchannel machines, I believe (yep, they ran Dragon's before
that, if only for educational purposes ;-)

The first machines I had physical access to were a Genie 16 and a TRS
80 at our local school (early 80's, I think), followed by a ZX/81 with
a whopping 16kb of RAM and a real keyboard at a friend's
place... <slap> must stop pining for the good ole days </slap ;->

cheers,

uwe

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