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Gods, my first job we used DECwriters to boot a pdp rsx11. That had switchable 12" disks in solid cases, that if you breathed wrong while swapping over would lose data!

In my first software job, you had to write your code on paper forms with a pencil, and take it down to the punch card girls. It would then be turned into a card deck, run overnight and next morning

First basic program I wrote was stored on paper tape - there was a reader/writer on the side of the teletype, which was connected to a distant mainframe. wrote:

The iPad can display PDFs if you put them in the 'Books' app on your computer. There are also PDF displayers available.

That was the second program I ever wrote in Basic! Yep, you could pipe output IIRC, but as no-one had a home printer in those days, the ability to print wasn’t a concern ? Sent: 01 July 2020

I used my zx81 to create star systems for traveller, never considering the inability to print them out!

That brings back memories of using my Sinclair Spectrum for wargaming. I still have the book and the Spectrum in a cupboard somewhere. I wrote a program for WW2 desert warfare which was play tested at

I've ordered the 1st Corps Germanic Tribes but they haven't arrived yet. If they are like the other 1st Corps I have, and the pictures look like they are, they will be big, and the sculpts have some

So true… Sent: 30 June 2020 21:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TooFatLardies] Infamy "The 'Good Good Days' were terrible days, I hope they never come again!"

Ours not so much, once it nearly took the head off the IBM engineer trying to fix it… replaced in the end with STK 4400 Online/Offline Silos… much more reliable.. The most fun storage related

I didn’t buy Ito have a Selucid 25mm army but the price of game and bits was too expensive for a game I am unlikely to play perHaps if there had been a man offer on the pdf but it was full price

Did you ever meet Vince Morley he worked for ICL Kidsgrove Stoke-on-Trent? Best Regards Mike Leese (N. Wales)

I Worked for a large Insurance company. As an agent, in 1980 I asked head office computer department if there was anyone who could help me to use a computer for a customer database. Reply came back

8” on a TRS 80 model II Best Regards Mike Leese (N. Wales)

Sinclair Basic on a ZX81, stored on a C60 cassette, which stubbornly refused to load 90% of the time. A program to generate random D&D encounters. :) It got much too big. Doug Sent: 30 June 2020

Thanks Carole, I’ll take a look. I’ve got some of the magazines on my Amazon App. It’s a pity an iPad can’t connect to a memory stick. Although it could be done via a network I think Computer

I remember calculating that the storage capacity I now have in my phone would have cost many 10s of millions when I started mucking around with computing machines. ? (And taken up most of a decent

It’s funny, but a few years ago I had an mail box nothing else. I I didn’t want to read an email I just deleted it. Now I have a mail box, spam box, a junk box and a trash box, although some

Richard sent me my file. ?Thanks!!!!! ?Now I have an excuse to do no work today while i read it. ?I will be “shopping” in my garage tonight to find all the Brittons/Gauls I have been hoarding

Those MSS storage units were cool for the day - those that our company had worked like a charm. Malc. ________________________________ Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:41 PM To: