Turned on my VPN, it's loading pages much faster now, in fact just as it should do.
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I will feel really old if no one recognises any of that.
ZaphodB
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I will feel really old if no one recognises any of that.
My first PC ran on Dos 3.2, it was a Schnieder EuroPC, no hard drive, it looked just like a keyboard with a floppy disc drive at the end, you put the disc in to start then removed it and put in a very basic office program on 760k disc? I bought it and a Brother dot matrix printer from a Holiday Camp Auction, it was what they ran their whole company from! Incidentally that was a 8086 chip so the fore runner 286,386,486 until finally the first Pentium.
Just found this in the attic Windows For Work Groups 3.11and Dos 6.22 that you had to install first to load Windows on to.
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I have no idea what language you are speaking or anything that you said guess you ARE really oldMy first PC ran on Dos 3.2, it was a Schnieder EuroPC, no hard drive, it looked just like a keyboard with a floppy disc drive at the end, you put the disc in to start then removed it and put in a very basic office program on 760k disc? I bought it and a Brother dot matrix printer from a Holiday Camp Auction, it was what they ran their whole company from! Incidentally that was a 8086 chip so the fore runner 286,386,486 until finally the first Pentium.
Just found this in the attic Windows For Work Groups 3.11and Dos 6.22 that you had to install first to load Windows on to.
(or more likely i am completely computer illiterate!)to be honest the earliest experience of using a computer was at work in the early 1990s
ZaphodB
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I have no idea what language you are speaking or anything that you said guess you ARE really old
to be honest the earliest experience of using a computer was at work in the early 1990s
You can't fool us
, early 90's was about the time of the operating system BugsyMike is talking about (MSDOS6.22)I bought my kids a PC for Christmas around 1998, I think, they would have been about 9 & 10. I had no Idea what I was thinking about anyway I was completely clueless and the kids were like 'oh great dad, how do we use it?'You can't fool us
I remember really struggling to enter a password cause I couldn't type.
Slow as a week in the jail too it was, well internet wise anyway, think it cost me about £1500 at the time.
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MP: You were lucky, In them days, we’d a’ been glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
GC: A cup ‘ COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness.”
EI: ‘E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN’. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we re all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin’ in a corridor! Woulda’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say “house” it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Ah the legendary sketch, never forget that. Many a time with various workmates, we used to extrapolate our own versions of that banter with equally stupid senarios. Went on to watch MP in Ripping Yarns.
Thx for the memory
Thx for the memory
ZaphodB
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Ah yes, Barnstoneworth UnitedAh the legendary sketch, never forget that. Many a time with various workmates, we used to extrapolate our own versions of that banter with equally stupid senarios. Went on to watch MP in Ripping Yarns.
Thx for the memory
and The testing of Eric Olthwaite:
Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records.
So many good episodes
ZaphodB
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Apologies in advance to Ben, I forgot to appreciate you'll be getting alerts for this thread for actual problems with the site 
As for the original topic , still running at full speed for me.
As for the original topic , still running at full speed for me.
Absolute junk for me unless I use a VPN, but then Youtube won't let me view vids without signing in.
That's interesting, which isp do you use?
I am using BT, and I am still finding Fiat Forum is still causing problems as I have mentioned before sadly, however I do not notice it on any other sites.
Even on uploading this short message I got the yellow bars/arrows.
Even on uploading this short message I got the yellow bars/arrows.
