Telephones.
Leave me alone for just 5 minutes, FFS.
Leave me alone for just 5 minutes, FFS.
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And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014 -
In my mainframe days I became convinced that IBM had shares in forestry and paper mills.Originally posted by alreadypacked View PostYes I forgot the eco friendly requirement
“Reduce paperwork and save a tree”
7 more weeks, 7 more weeks
In "We really need a 1200 line per minute printer" mode.
(we got one too
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Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostIn my mainframe days I became convinced that IBM had shares in forestry and paper mills.
In "We really need a 1200 line per minute printer" mode.
(we got one too)
I dont know about nowardays but BigBlue was once the biggest Publishers in the World.Comment
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I helped a neighbour's daughter with a BBC BASIC project for school. The book she had (recommended by some education department or other) not only promoted the use of GOTO but devoted a whole chapter to saying how useful it was.Originally posted by Monster Munch View Post
I delegated the job to one of our junior programmers
Now where's that :screaming: smiley?Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Can't beat a good red book (to get you to sleep at night).Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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I prefer a Blue Book for insomnia.Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
You know VTAM Buffer internals - NCP Diagnostic Trace - that kinda stuff.Comment
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Ditto. Rats. The Psion was a disaster too. The last couple I bought died within a few months and I learnt the hard way that when you've bought stuff in duty free you can't simply "take it back to the shop".Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
VAX DATATRIEVE. I gather later versions were much improved but the one I had available was so "unpredictable" that you could have written the COBOL equivalent faster by the time you got it working. Associated with DATATRIEVE was an 'orrible data dictionary called CDD which also had the merit of being as slow as molasses.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Delphi. About a thousand quid (special offer) for the full development license which allowed you to distribute the run time Interbase binaries.Originally posted by zeitghostVuTrax for dos... (
another £1600 down the tubes).
I quite liked it, but the marketplace didn't.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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dBase IV
MercatorComment
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Oh yeh, Forth. Forgot that one.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)Comment
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