Things we used to do

[mybike]

Almost getting glue in your eye as you tried to pierce the small rubbery bulb of glue that you got with the plastic kits with a pin.

And which almost immediately emptied themselves so you had to go back to the shop to buy some.

 

[vernon]

Using Microsoft Word when it fitted on a 3.5" floppy disc and still had room for document files.

 

[mybike]

Using Microsoft Word when it fitted on a 3.5" floppy disc and still had room for document files.

With a blue background if I remember rightly.

I also, at the time, had a word processor package that would guess the words so you could save typing.

 

[midlife]

I need to print so that's shift F7, 7.

Now *that's* a word processor, perfect in fact

Shaun

 

[mybike]

Strange how we take all those key combination as standard.

 

[mybike]

TSR that you could load on a colleagues computer that would wreak havoc on the display.

 

[midlife]

Terminate and stay resident . That was the stuff of magic. Better than flying toasters LOL

Shaun

 

[vernon]

Using handscanners before flatbed scanners became affordable.

 

[mybike]

Terminate and stay resident . That was the stuff of magic. Better than flying toasters LOL

Shaun

Or the shipwrecked sailor?

 

[mybike]

Using handscanners before flatbed scanners became affordable.

I feel your pain. I even had (have) one that worked with my Psion.

 

[Gravity Aided]

TI99, which could work with a cassette tape as data storage. You could get a game, set it up to run, and then go downtown for a few hours and hang out, and when you got back, your game might be ready to play.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Get up off the sofa, select which of the 4 channels you want, sit back down to have someone say "I don't like this show... turn it over"

Probably already been done, but Im not reading 53 pages just to check.

 

[PaulSecteur]

"Got, got, got, need, got, need, got need, need...." <------ Comparing your mates Panini football stickers to your own collection.

 

[raleighnut]

Get up off the sofa, select which of the 4 channels you want, sit back down to have someone say "I don't like this show... turn it over"

Probably already been done, but Im not reading 53 pages just to check.

4 you were lucky 3 til I bought my own house.

 

[Illaveago]

When I was in infant's school in the pre decimal era I used to go through my mums loose change sorting out all the different heads of Kings and Queens from the past.