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GPS_fan
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I remember new council offices being built in a town where I once lived and when the new mainframe computer arrived, it wouldn't fit through the doors. 
...and nowadays, there's far more computer power at everybody's fingertips than there ever was on the Apollo missions which took man to the moon
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mostdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| Skippy wrote: | Ahh, you remember them too! Those were the days!   |
Touché! Well recovered that MAN, faith restored!
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MaFt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | ...one of those tennis game thingamajigs that we used to have... |
we had one of those too  with the "paddle" that was a circle you could only turn left and right. the grandstand one we had reckoned it had 15 games built in! each game actually had a different name BUT it was just different size 'bats' and some of them had a line down the middle of the screen to make things more interesting...!
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mostdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| MaFt wrote: | | we had one of those too with the "paddle" that was a circle you could only turn left and right. the grandstand one we had reckoned it had 15 games built in! each game actually had a different name BUT it was just different size 'bats' and some of them had a line down the middle of the screen to make things more interesting...! |
This was our one...
other ones may look like this...
 
Fond memories! 
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Those were the days when you used to have to speak and interact with other people instead of sitting on your **** sending another inpersonal e-mail
As Peter Kay says... | Quote: | we used to have to load up the dishwasher - by hand
we had to manage with a car each
all we had was Sky digital |
This is how much things have changed in our lifetimes, so you can imagine how people felt in the industrial revolution and when things like electricity was introduced into homes
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mostdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | This is how much things have changed in our lifetimes, so you can imagine how people felt in the industrial revolution and when things like electricity was introduced into homes |
Eiy! 23 hours douwn co'l min', fer nout' but loaf o bread!
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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Eigh Up
Trouble at t'mill
Th'arl come to thi cake an' milk.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | There have been two computing disasters over the years - Apple and OS2 failed to be marketed - Bill Gates beat them both even though he had an inferior product in both cases. For me there has been a third, namely MS Office marketed better than Lotus SmartSuite, again a superior product beaten by superior marketing. |
Mac vs PC
| Quote: | | “If we’re going just by what’s better—the ages-old Mac-vs.-PC debate is over. Long over. Yell it from the rooftops; The Mac has won.” Now’s the right time “to buy an Apple computer,” proclaims Manjoo. “Indeed, it’s been that time for the past five years.” After all, “its Macintosh business is now in league with that of the biggest PC companies in the world.” And “everyone who’s used it agrees that Leopard, the operating system that Apple released late last month, is to its chief rival, Microsoft’s Windows Vista, roughly as Richard Wagner is to Richard Marx.” |
read the article here
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philpugh
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If you are starting from scratch then a MAC would be the sensible choice today. But if you already have a significant investment in "can't live without" applications for Windows - then the cost equation is very different.
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Oh dear, Dennis, what's making you change your signature to say this:
| Quote: | | Urgently needs a new, easy compo. |
I said in an earlier post that I'd give you a hand if you needed help with your MacBook.
I'm sure that if I can convert my parents from Windows to Mac OS X, I should be able to help somebody who's significantly more computer savvy 
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mostdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | Oh dear, Dennis, what's making you change your signature to say this:
| Quote: | | Urgently needs a new, easy compo. |
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Same reason why my sinature says
| Quote: | | v.SORE LOOSER! Wasn't in the bag |
See this example of fair judging in the logo compo.
[edited once for good taste]
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Did your mummy and daddy always let you win everything?
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mostdom
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | Did your mummy and daddy always let you win everything? |
Only because I AM that good at everything, apparently! or at least mummy said so 
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Skippy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | when the new mainframe computer arrived, it wouldn't fit through the doors. |
I wise man told once told me "Never trust a computer that is too big to throw out the window"
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Skippy wrote: | | wise man told once told me "Never trust a computer that is too big to throw out the window" |
Another wise man told me "Always open window before throwing computer out"
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