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Re: Cakes
Posted by: Jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: December 10, 2002 08:03PM
<HTML>Eeee, kids today ... they don't know they're born, do they? I remember when I were at school, we didn't have none of this here fancy internet stuff. The most high-tech device we had was a plug-in calculator, and you had to go and ask permission to use that. And if you wanted dubious literature you had to wait until Gaz Leach nicked his brother's porn stash. But I tell you this; they were t'happiest days of our lives. Not.</HTML>
School
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 10, 2002 08:08PM
<HTML>When I was at school, we thought a 64K Commodore Pet was the cutting edge of technology. And I had (don't laugh) an unmodified 1K ZX-80.
Oh, all right, then, you can laugh if you want...</HTML>
Oh, all right, then, you can laugh if you want...</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: poestscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: December 10, 2002 10:57PM
<HTML>No - wouldn't be so cruel. My school was late onto the bandwagon - hence us being old enough to really take advantage of it. And dubious literature also made its way into the classroom. That's a traditional thing handed down from first year to first year.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Rob Johnson (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 09:25AM
<HTML>We were posh. We had a ZX-81 <b>with 16K RAM</b>
Luxury.</HTML>
Luxury.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 09:39AM
<HTML>I thought ZX81 had 1k of RAM? We had a 48k spectrum...which I think was unique as it worked out of the box, and never broke down.... Still going to this day I believe.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Rob Johnson (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 09:56AM
<HTML>As I say, we were posh. We got a 16K additional plug-in RAM.
Except the connections were very dodgy and doing anything as
outrageous as typing caused it to crash.</HTML>
Except the connections were very dodgy and doing anything as
outrageous as typing caused it to crash.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: ScarletBea (194.196.168.---)
Date: December 11, 2002 10:01AM
<HTML>I had a 64K Spectrum too, the games were so great lol
Oh kids these days don't know how easy they've got... even at uni I learnt Lotus 123 (the non-windows version... there was no windows...), Dbase IV... all those nice and easy to use programs ;)</HTML>
Oh kids these days don't know how easy they've got... even at uni I learnt Lotus 123 (the non-windows version... there was no windows...), Dbase IV... all those nice and easy to use programs ;)</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 11, 2002 12:58PM
<HTML>My first computer was a 48k Spectrum (with dead flesh keyboard). My first foray on to the internet was on a Commodore Amiga (512k) with a 2600 modem, this was in the days before the www was invented and playing a text based adventure game (you remember: n,n,n,kill troll, search corpse, get gold from corspe, w,s...etc) over a telnet connection was cutting edge!</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: dave (---.addleshaw-booth.co.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 12:59PM
<HTML>I think you can still play that...</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:29PM
<HTML>Cool, maybe it's time to revisit my youth, erm actually I would have to have grown up first wouldn't I?</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Jacques Merde (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:31PM
<HTML>He has the body of a 21 year old, you know. And he keeps it in the fridge.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:32PM
<HTML>I had to move it from the fridge, it was taking up valuable lager space, it's now in the outside lav.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Jacques Merde (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:33PM
<HTML>Btw, buggerlugs, did you get the Xmas pressie instructions?</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:35PM
<HTML>Yes I did, I'll pop along to Halfords to see if they have one, Dawn was most upset "That's not a very good present!", she said.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Jacques Merde (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:36PM
<HTML>That's OK ... It's my job to purchase goods from the feminine frippery dept.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:38PM
<HTML>Er .... I've given away my secret identity there, haven't I? Damn. Or even merde. And that bloody monkey is still in the tree.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Adam (212.137.30.---)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:52PM
<HTML>Bonjour singe</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Minsky Cat (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 11, 2002 01:54PM
<HTML>Damn it, Merde, you were supposed to wait for the denouement! Now what am I supposed to do?</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: December 11, 2002 02:04PM
<HTML>Do what all good authors do with bloopholes .... ignore it.</HTML>
Re: School
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: December 11, 2002 02:13PM
<HTML>Fair enough... we shall!</HTML>
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