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Previously on "The Horror! Oh The Horror!"

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by OrangeHopper View Post
    You are the type who leaves one or two glaring mistakes in your documents
    to satisfy the reviewers aren't you? Works for me.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    Threaded, I find it hard to believe that you can get all so excited over a Cockatoo.
    HAB , maybe


    Yeah, evil blessed things, but still one of Gods creatures.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I have copies of "Program Now" and "EXE" upstairs.

    IIRC In a basement at one of my homes I've several copies of Elektor, Wireless World, Practical Wireless, Practical Electronics, Byte, .EXE, RadCom, Electronics Today International, Everyday Electronics and many many others.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
    You can bet that as soon as the dustman has taken them away that I'll have reason to look something up in one of them.
    I once inherited a cupboard full of DEC PDP-11 manuals. Cleared them out into a cardboard box and wrote on it "Chuck if nobody needs them by <date-one-year-from-now>".

    Sure enough, about a week after flinging them along came the ex-employee who was maintaining some legacy systems ...

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Hey, some of us are still developing in COM thank you very much
    You can bet that as soon as the dustman has taken them away that I'll have reason to look something up in one of them.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
    I still haven't gotten around to throwing out thise VC/VB 6.0 MCSD training kit, and COM books, etc.
    Hey, some of us are still developing in COM thank you very much

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    People used to ask me why I kept an old x-ray tube carefully stuffed away in a box with lots of other old tubes, and I used to tell them that one day I might well need it.

    Well, as it so happens one day someone came to me with a very sick parrot and I was able to build an x-ray machine from junk, took this photo and an emergency vet used it to save his life.

    So, you just tell them: NO!
    Threaded, I find it hard to believe that you can get all so excited over a Cockatoo.
    HAB , maybe


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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I have copies of "Program Now" and "EXE" upstairs.

    I've got a few copies of EXE.

    I also have an extensive collection of Personal Computer World spanning three decades. The oldest has the TRS-80 on the cover; I think it was the fourth issue, dated September 1978

    My oldest issue of Byte appears to be the May 1985 one.

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post
    I still haven't gotten around to throwing out thise VC/VB 6.0 MCSD training kit, and COM books, etc.

    I found old copies of Oracle's magazine the other day; I don't even use Oracle anymore.

    I'm due for a good clean out. Last one was in January when I threw away copies of the now defunct Trader Monthly Magazine. I think I had copies going back to late 2006.
    And now, I don't have any of them.

    There is something curiously therapeutic about throwing things out. It has a sort of Zen feeling to it.

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    I still haven't gotten around to throwing out thise VC/VB 6.0 MCSD training kit, and COM books, etc.

    I found old copies of Oracle's magazine the other day; I don't even use Oracle anymore.

    I'm due for a good clean out. Last one was in January when I threw away copies of the now defunct Trader Monthly Magazine. I think I had copies going back to late 2006.

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  • OrangeHopper
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    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    But leave a bit of (more) useless tat in place to give them the impression that they've cleared you out...
    You are the type who leaves one or two glaring mistakes in your documents
    to satisfy the reviewers aren't you? Works for me.
    Last edited by OrangeHopper; 26 February 2010, 17:22.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
    They're finally going to throw away all my and my predeceased predecessor's carefully horded junk.

    I is devastated.

    Life will never be the same again.
    People used to ask me why I kept an old x-ray tube carefully stuffed away in a box with lots of other old tubes, and I used to tell them that one day I might well need it.

    Well, as it so happens one day someone came to me with a very sick parrot and I was able to build an x-ray machine from junk, took this photo and an emergency vet used it to save his life.

    So, you just tell them: NO!

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  • DaveB
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    But what about all those cunning plans that relied on that junk as a source of parts?

    Is this the end of the GAL invasion force?

    Will ZG manage to hide his junk and fool the authorities?

    All these questions and more will be answered in next weeks episode of...

    Who Ate All The Students?

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by Drewster View Post
    You need to quickly hide the lot of it..... just chuck out all the Tulip thats clogging up your desk drawers, filing cabinets, desk footwells, store rooms, corridiors etc and hide all your stuff there.......
    But leave a bit of (more) useless tat in place to give them the impression that they've cleared you out...

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  • Drewster
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    Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
    They're finally going to throw away all my and my predeceased predecessor's carefully horded junk.

    I is devastated.

    Life will never be the same again.
    You need to quickly hide the lot of it..... just chuck out all the Tulip thats clogging up your desk drawers, filing cabinets, desk footwells, store rooms, corridiors etc and hide all your stuff there.......

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