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Go on......'net use' a shared resource, you know you want to......Originally posted by Mordac View PostI just opened a DOS prompt full screen, and felt a warm fuzzy glow...
When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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Aye, them were the days, going deaf punching out a 2000 card deck.Originally posted by BR14 View Postwhen i started contracting, it was punched cards and tape, with teletype terminals.
no screens, no internet, no pizza munching webdevs.
Getting electric shocks off the metalised punch tape.
Repairing paper tape with those funny patches.
The absolute joy when the rubber band holding the card deck together finally rots & they cascade all over the floor.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Do you get your grandkids to program your BluRay player? :fogey:Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostAye, them were the days, going deaf punching out a 2000 card deck.
Getting electric shocks off the metalised punch tape.
Repairing paper tape with those funny patches.
The absolute joy when the rubber band holding the card deck together finally rots & they cascade all over the floor.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostYet you've not retired yet......
Hey I very nearly got a job with punched cards in the 80s!Comment
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostDo you get your grandkids to program your BluRay player? :fogey:
oi not so fast whippersnapper!Comment
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You have to program bluray players?Originally posted by LondonManc View PostDo you get your grandkids to program your BluRay player? :fogey:

I just stick dvds or blurays in it & it plays stuff.
It'd be nice if it remembered where it was on the bluray, mind you, the way it does on a dvd.
My job came along in '79 and the Univac card punch was sold to another company that wanted it in about 1987 after a regime change.Originally posted by vetran View PostHey I very nearly got a job with punched cards in the 80s!
I was out of there in April '89 with 10 years work in the skip.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 5 May 2020, 15:01.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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no.Originally posted by LondonManc View PostDo you get your grandkids to program your BluRay player? :fogey:
i've kept up, which is why i'm working with the latest software and hardware.
and not that toytown windows/apple/android crap either.Comment
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OS/2 Warp Server ??Originally posted by BR14 View Postno.
i've kept up, which is why i'm working with the latest software and hardware.
and not that toytown windows/apple/android crap either.When freedom comes along, don't PISH in the water supply.....Comment
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no.Originally posted by TestMangler View PostOS/2 Warp Server ??
no toy stuff

i did like OS/2 as an off host OS thoughComment
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