Fairwell

[Gaboon]

I really don't need a life I am retired Navy on 75% disability. I retired in 1992 after 23 years of service you can do the math. I am a Vet of both the Viet Nam and Gulf War's. As for my not having a monster computer in my opinion its a monster to me as follows. (Thermaltake Armor + Ultra X3 1600 Watt Power supply with built in liquid cooling, EVGA X58 classified 4X SLI motherboard, Core I7 975 Extreme CPU, 12 gig's of Corsair core I7 Dominator DDR3 ram, dual GTX 480 hydro Copper video cards, 3X Seagate  Terabyte hard drives, LG super multi scribe and DVD bluray drive and a sony 3.5 floppy, running Windows 7 64bit. I run 7 telescopes on this machine stacking and processing mulit color frames while guiding the telescopes using Meades tracking software. I can run Star Trek OL and World of Warcraft online both on full res without so much as a burp in the system I shoud be able to run AH with no problem. If you have ever played WOW in a 25 man+ instance you know what I am talking about I have never had so much as a skip when running this system of mine. I am also running a docsys 3.0 cable modem with 60 meg speed. 

[LLogann]

Vietnam is one word. 

[Scotch]

That 3.5" floppy drive was the icing on the cake for me...

[68ZooM]

I really don't need a life I am retired Navy on 75% disability. I retired in 1992 after 23 years of service you can do the math. I am a Vet of both the Viet Nam and Gulf War's. As for my not having a monster computer in my opinion its a monster to me as follows. (Thermaltake Armor + Ultra X3 1600 Watt Power supply with built in liquid cooling, EVGA X58 classified 4X SLI motherboard, Core I7 975 Extreme CPU, 12 gig's of Corsair core I7 Dominator DDR3 ram, dual GTX 480 hydro Copper video cards, 3X Seagate  Terabyte hard drives, LG super multi scribe and DVD bluray drive and a sony 3.5 floppy, running Windows 7 64bit. I run 7 telescopes on this machine stacking and processing mulit color frames while guiding the telescopes using Meades tracking software. I can run Star Trek OL and World of Warcraft online both on full res without so much as a burp in the system I shoud be able to run AH with no problem. If you have ever played WOW in a 25 man+ instance you know what I am talking about I have never had so much as a skip when running this system of mine. I am also running a docsys 3.0 cable modem with 60 meg speed. 

WOW  i thought i had a ultra fast homebuilt, Quad Core, Dual XFX GTX285s same amount of memory, DVD same, only have one Seagate Terabyte HD  mine tears the game up, you wont have any problems

[grizz441]

That 3.5" floppy drive was the icing on the cake for me...

 

[USRanger]

[TequilaChaser]

Vietnam is one word. 

who cares, he served his country......... no reason to crack a "grammar police" whip on him......

btw, I have always used a floppy drive on my PC builds... some of my software demands it with licensing, is only way to activate and unactivate my software... lose the floppy lose the license ( has 3 on the floppy, removes one each time you activate, if you don't use floppy to unload/deactivate or lose the HD you lose one of the 3 licenses...... )

Thanks for serving ~S~

[grizz441]

Vietnam is one word. 

I'm sure he knows that, if he fought a freakin war there.

[dunnrite]

who cares, he served his country......... no reason to crack a "grammar police" whip on him......

Thanks for serving ~S~

QFT

Gaboon...Thank you sir

[Fencer51]

I retired in 1992 after 23 years of service you can do the math.

So, assuming you were 18 when you enlisted (in 1969) that means you were born in 1951.  Gordan M. Graham was born in 1918, which makes him 33 when his grandson (you) were born.  That means that he must of had kids when he was real young.  So somewhere in 1936-1940 when he was in college at the University of California he got married (or not) and had a kid.. might have been with Dorothy Huntingdon Graham who was his first wife.  He got married the second time in 1968 to Vivian Fox Graham, who is still alive, bless her.  Which means that somewhere, sometime, someone got pregnant at a real early age.  Amazing what history brings out isn't it.

Gordan M. Graham was an amazing man, doing a search for his bio and reading about him is worth anyone's time.

[IrishOne]

Vietnam is one word.  

spell out the wars you've fought in

[uptown]

So, assuming you were 18 when you enlisted (in 1969) that means you were born in 1951.  Gordan M. Graham was born in 1918, which makes him 33 when his grandson (you) were born.  That means that he must of had kids when he was real young.  So somewhere in 1936-1940 when he was in college at the University of California he got married (or not) and had a kid.. might have been with Dorothy Huntingdon Graham who was his first wife.  He got married the second time in 1968 to Vivian Fox Graham, who is still alive, bless her.  Which means that somewhere, sometime, someone got pregnant at a real early age.  Amazing what history brings out isn't it.

Gordan M. Graham was an amazing man, doing a search for his bio and reading about him is worth anyone's time.

interesting to say the least. Gaboons dad would have had to been somewhere around 15yo when Gaboon was born? 

[bustr]

Gents,

If you want to get really picky about it then the traditional name is: Nam Viet or Dai Viet depending on the era. Viet Nam is a recent change of Nam Viet as of the 1800's. It went out of use until it was reinstated in 1945 as a single word Vietnam. Depending on the source after 1945 it was still refrenced as Viet Nam.

I'm assuming Gaboon is spelling in the traditional usage because of his personal experience.

[Xtrepid]

Vietnam is one word. 

So is... Supercalifragilisticexpialido cious


X     Gaboon, Thank You Sir!