Imagine

[Rod]

How should I effin know you plantpot. (VBG :-) )

[ARWadsworth]

Better weapons for fighting wars with:-(

Adam

[Tim S]

PeterMcC coughed up some electrons that declared:

28 years ago, they might!

:)

Cheers Tim

[meow2222]

Yes - but the bit they wont believe is that anyone would buy pickled mussels ;)

NT

[meow2222]

Lol, too funny. The Apple 2 & BBS era.

NT

[meow2222]

Tell the kids today people used to access discussion groups on a 1MHz

8 bit machine with no hard drive - and if you were really fancy a screen that would only display green - and they'd laugh, and find it hard to believe it ws possible. What browser they'd say - but IIRC browsers didnt exist until much later.

NT

[BigWallop]

Tell the kids today people used to access discussion groups on a 1MHz

8 bit machine with no hard drive - and if you were really fancy a screen that would only display green - and they'd laugh, and find it hard to believe it ws possible. What browser they'd say - but IIRC browsers didnt exist until much later.

NT

I could get my green screen to auto-scroll up and down at he touch of an arrow key. I couldn't believe that myself at the time. :-)

[John Rumm]

My primary school teacher would have said, "why do you want an electric drill?" ;-)

[John Rumm]

And that came after UUCP doing something similar...

[Cicero]

========================================== About forty years ago a university boffin suggested the possibility that we might one day see computers weighing less than a ton.

Cic.

[BigWallop]

And they also laughed at him. A ton of pocket computer would not be a good selling point these days. Especially with two suitcases full of batteries to make it portable. Whereas, a ton of computer equipment in your house now-a-days, is something I think we all dream of. :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

I think my first usenet post was on a VT100...

[Doctor Drivel]

What happened to that?

Both yuk! Harp was made by Guinness, the other by ICI.

[Tony Bryer]

Prior to emigrating I (sadly) had to chuck out lots of stuff from my past. The earliest (1989-90) SuperBeam manuals said that a hard disk was recommended, but not essential; a slightly later one had a detailed explanation of what a mouse was and to use it!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

Really? In that case the decent-quality Makita drills I was using on the job ~35 years ago must be a figment of my imagination, then.

They most certainly weren't cheap tat.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If you're talking about the Prius you claim to own it certainly isn't faster than an MGB while running on electricity.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Doctor Drivel" saying something like:

They were cheaper than the competition, iirc, but they weren't exactly cheap. Made sense, to get a foothold.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like:

He means it will beat the average MGB to the scrapyard.

[John Rumm]

Remember when the first Microsoft mice required a dedicated ISA card to plug them into...

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Could well be - I saw a MK1 Prius the other day and it occurred just how rare they have become. Considering it wasn't when they were current, at least round here.