ayceejay
Guru
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- Rural Quebec
This is a 5 megabyte IBM hard drive balancing on a fork lift truck in 1956.
the good old days before iPad
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SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
R Kid once asked "what do you want for Christmas" (by txt) so I cheekily replied "an iPad".
On Christmas Day he presented me with a small cardboard box containing a surgical Eye Pad -
Cheeky Beggar.
On Christmas Day he presented me with a small cardboard box containing a surgical Eye Pad -
Cheeky Beggar.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
its the thought that counts surely
Julia9054
Legendary Member
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- Knaresborough
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
No - it's the present that counts & -
Stop calling me Shirley.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
About 10 years ago I used to have a Samsung IZZI tablet running Windows CE. Anyone who saw it thought I was odd and it was replaced with a Samsung netbook.
It was great; reversible touchscreen with a keyboard if you needed. The touchscreen worked fine, although it was a bit slow.
I think I used the keyboard less than 10 times but it was great for what it did. There's even one on eBay at the moment.
It was great; reversible touchscreen with a keyboard if you needed. The touchscreen worked fine, although it was a bit slow.
I think I used the keyboard less than 10 times but it was great for what it did. There's even one on eBay at the moment.
Cyclist33
Guest
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- Warrington
Was that in the days when they still gave computers girls' names in order to appeal to the almost exclusively reclusive beardy no-mates blokes who bought computers back then?
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/profiles/80.html
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/profiles/80.html
Cyclist33
Guest
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- Warrington
I will always remember as a young teen seeing an advert in a mag for the Lisa and the sentence "You can rent a Lisa for as little as £500 a month". This was the late Eighties and I nearly spit my teeth out at the cost.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
"A huge 512 kilobytes of memory"
Cyclist33
Guest
- Location
- Warrington
I like the 5mhz processor speed on the spec sheet!
philk56
Guru
- Location
- WAy down under
Advances in computing power still amaze me.I graduated with a computer science degree thirty five years ago and we were still programming COBOL with punched cards and a day's turnaround. And you try telling the young people of today that...
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"A huge 512 kilobytes of memory"
I had an Amstrad PCW for several years and I upgraded mine to 8MHz speed and a whole 1 MB of memory.
I then added a Mouse!
My Mum, a computer novice has been taking computer lessons lately and I have been helping her with some of the course content, the most recent thing being creating folders, sub directories, moving files around etc. I'm sitting thinking "why are you struggling to do this? I had to learn in MS DOS with typed commands and 8 character file names and wild cards"
SteCenturion
I am your Father
- Location
- The Dark Side of the Moon.
So jealous of you techies -
I am a 'technonumpty' & can't do links or get rid of/change that 'well known member' thingy on my profile.
Or do an Avatar - 'cept on VD Player.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I've helped a few 'older than me' people with this concept too... I told them to think of it like a (physical) filing cabinet. The computer is the metal box, the folders are the drawers. Seemed to help.
