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Originally posted by WTFH
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Ah, the dear dead days beyond recall when you could draw an arc off the top cap of a PL504 (or PL36) without blowing everything to shreds.
Originally posted by vetran
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It also lit up if the chassis was live, as I well remember.
Originally posted by customer after DrS switched off at the mains socket only to find the set was still live
If only I'd known then what I know now I'd still be poor.
And I'd have avoided wasting 2 years of my life in Luffbra, even if it was the first time I used a computer.
I wonder if that chap ever got his "cross compiler" to compile on the ICL 1900 mainframe.
I do miss a functioning multiquote facility, it did make things a bit easier, like. .
In other news, I have no idea what I "studied" for GCE "O" level English Lit since it was 53 years ago.
I have vague recollections of The Merchant of Venice, some poetry about potato clamps, and that's about it.
I got a 6, which is just short of a fail. (it went from 1 to 9 in those dim & distant days, with 1 being good & 9 being abysmal. I got a 9 in history cause I didn't like the teacher).
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