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*showing my age*

I when I started work there was a computer. It needed to be in a temperature controlled room and needed about five staff. It took up the space of a small car, and used "tapes" about two foot in diameter. All it did was the invoices. :unsure:

We did not have fax machines, but something called Teletext, that could only send words, not pictures.

I met someone years ago who started work cleaning the valves on computers. He remembered someone saying that Britain would only need two computers. One for Income Tax and one for MI5.

:blink:
Telex machine not teletext I think? I vaguely remember being shown how to use the telex thing but fortunately it got phased out very quickly.
 
Are you being deliberately mean to me. It is bad enough that Mr S grows them in the garden and pickles them, but to talk of them lovingly is just sick :tongue:
The smell of them cooking is double yuckxx(
I have to be out of the house when Mr Hop decides to cook them.
 

raleighnut

Legendary Member
*showing my age*

I when I started work there was a computer. It needed to be in a temperature controlled room and needed about five staff. It took up the space of a small car, and used "tapes" about two foot in diameter. All it did was the invoices. :unsure:

We did not have fax machines, but something called Teletext, that could only send words, not pictures.

I met someone years ago who started work cleaning the valves on computers. He remembered someone saying that Britain would only need two computers. One for Income Tax and one for MI5.

:blink:
My fathers 'introduction' to computers was soldering the valve sockets into place. (English Electric/GEC @ 1963)
 

midlife

Legendary Member
[QUOTE 4587903, member: 21629"]ICQ, Pascal, DOS ...

p.s. I love sprouts. :smile:[/QUOTE]

....the cafeteria system for using the Computer at Hull University.....punching cards in FORTRAN......

Shaun
 

mybike

Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
I am a bit behind you then, we did have a fax machine, it printed on that thermal paper that went brown and faded after a while...

We had these huge black cabinets, one for sending, the other for receiving pictures over the radio. The pictures were received on photographic paper, developed and sent to the papers in Fleet Street. Mind, we were the GPO CTO.

Telex machine not teletext I think? I vaguely remember being shown how to use the telex thing but fortunately it got phased out very quickly.

We had those as well, I could strip down a teleprinter, put it back together and get it working.
 

midlife

Legendary Member
We had these huge black cabinets, one for sending, the other for receiving pictures over the radio. The pictures were received on photographic paper, developed and sent to the papers in Fleet Street. Mind, we were the GPO CTO.



We had those as well, I could strip down a teleprinter, put it back together and get it working.

Always amazed me that the pictures sent from the first soft lander on the Moon were in radiofax format and were printed here in the UK before Russia released them....

Shaun
 

Smithbat

Getting there, one ride at a time.
Location
Aylesbury
Just to upset @Smithbat, I've decided to serve tonight's Ginger Loin of Pork (which is marinading away in the fridge) on a bed of steamed, shredded sprouts...

Thanks for the inspiration! :okay:^_^
I am rapidly going off you.

Never heard of it. Does that mean I'm not as old? :biggrin:
Definitely!

[QUOTE 4587903, member: 21629"]ICQ, Pascal, DOS ...

p.s. I love sprouts. :smile:[/QUOTE]Glad you can remember ICQ, Bad that you like sprouts :biggrin:
 
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Guest
Not long back from our senior citizens Xmas dinner, a full three courses, soup turkey and Xmas pudding and all the trimmings all washed down with a couple of glasses of wine and a cup of coffee. Entertainment afterwards and a good time was had by all. Tomorrow I'm having lunch with the ladies from the yoga class, another three course Xmas dinner.
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
Funnily enough, I'm not a fan of sprouts with chestnuts.

I do love beetroot though - particularly some of the more unusual/heritage varieties. We grow some ourselves. I love them scrubbed, topped and tailed, and roasted (in their skins) with garlic and sea salt. I also like the pre-prepared pickled baby beetroot with chilli that Waitrose do.
Err some of ours get left too big to top and tail them.....
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The big one made two days worth of soup!
 

TVC

Guest
I had to go and have an assessment this morning whilst away with the fairies, so my wife had to sit in as an interpreter. 2 1/2 hours later it was over and I was completely shattered and shaking. I slept for 2hours this afternoon.
Hope you are feeling yourself again.... as it where.

The doc phoned with the X-ray results today, all clear, so the mystery continues. Next episode on Friday morning.
 
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