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Watney's Red Barrel...Originally posted by DS23 View Postred barrel
There was a sign for that hanging rustily off a pub in the Cotswolds...
Wot we want is Watneys.
Yeah.
Right.Comment
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one of my favourite boozers had* a can in a glass box on the wall. "for emergencies only"Originally posted by zeitghost View PostWatney's Red Barrel...
There was a sign for that hanging rustily off a pub in the Cotswolds...
Wot we want is Watneys.
Yeah.
Right.
*maybe still has.Comment
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That sounds familiar...Originally posted by zeitghost View PostI used an ancient (& ripped off) version of Wordstar for Dos on an Amstrad 1512 many moons ago.
It was great.
An infinite improvement on the General Automation line editor I'd used for the previous 7 years.
@1/5,P
to display the first 5 lines....
@C=Y to end the edit session... etc. etc. etc.
@K=Y did something, but I can't remember what... it may have inserted text from another file.
At college everyone was encouraged to use SOS as the editor. I didn't like it. I preferred TeCO. And I'm a squillion per cent sure it stood for Text Editor and COmpiler.Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard pointsComment
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