Re: Infamy
I bought the books for the Amiga and a Couple assembler but I used Z80 code on the TRS 80 and 6502 code on the BBC Model ¡®B¡¯ with its built in assembler.
It was fun
Best Regards
Mike Leese
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Mike Leese
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My wife was a comptometer operator And then general office manager for Lewis¡¯ the department store but left 49 years ago, courtesy of my sons arrival.
Best Regards
Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
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Mike Leese
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Re: How long before we all go goofy...or goofier as it is.
I¡¯ve not used my desktop for over a year
Best Regards
Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
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Mike Leese
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Yep. I put that in my calculation
Best Regards
Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
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Mike Leese
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Yes but I have a lot on the memory stick for safety but I do use kindle and Apple Books and there are some I¡¯ve not swapped over
Best Regards
Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
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Mike Leese
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All the possibilities for Wargaming yet no company has produced a game where troops could be moved as an army to invade a country and take the capital city by using a mouse pointer, Click on the on
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Mike Leese
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Not as bad as the 1403, massive impact printer with an automatic lid that would come up when it needed more paper. Incredibly noisy.
How did you get over tinnitus? I have had it for around 30 years
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Carole Flint
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Hi Carole,
Funnily enough, I¡¯ve just got over a bout of tinnitus...
If it¡¯s printers, how about 3800s and 3211s?
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Tim Drewett
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I learned PL/1 around 1976. The company I worked at paid another company to come in and teach PL/1 programming for 8 weeks. A couple of years after that, I learned IBM assembler the hard way - here's
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Malcolm Sleight
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In my case the punch operators were all female and between the ages of
about 18 and 22; so always a pleasant visit for me. I recall that the
keyboards they used on the machines were not Qwerty but
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Steve Burt
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I remember those days. We also had access to card punches too, so that we could correct our own problems without sending the stuff back to punch girls.
The most off the wall machine I ever worked with
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Malcolm Sleight
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I worked in a DP agency in St Martin's Lane, on the edge of Soho, for a while after Uni. We ran lots of work for marketing companies. Many of them had their data punched in by the punch "girls",
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Carole Flint
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Yes, the 3420 drives. They are part of the reason I now suffer from tinnitus. Them, plus the aircon, the 3330, 3340, 3380 etc disk drives and, most of all the 1403 printers.
Carole
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Carole Flint
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If you really want to do fantasy Infamy you could use the Pax Bochemmanica
range, http://www.maveryc.co.uk/Shop/Pax-Bochemannica/pax-bochemannica.html
[email protected]> wrote:
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Dave Humm
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JCL! Had to love it. One misplaced space and you could lose a week's work
(speaking from experience)
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Steve Burt
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If you plug your kindle USB port into your computer, you can drag and drop pdf files straight in there. No need to send emails. If it's a "real" kindle the pictures are monochrome and not great
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Andrew Holmes
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wow that beats me!
I began on PDP but my first IBM IPL deck was a 3081 in 85.
I was doing some Corona-Kondo last week and found my last OS/390 JCL book (the last of the Gary DeWard Brown Books)
and
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Bob Blanchett
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I read my TFL stuff through Kindle on my I-pad. Just need to send the PDF
to your Kindle account. You can also get Kindle on your lap-top.
Mike
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Mike Irvin
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Ah yes, I also remember using a PDP11 - to boot it you had to toggle in the
boot loader using the switches on the front, then it booted off its 8"
floppy disk. Once running though, it retained its
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Steve Burt
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PDF only options were not included in the pre-order offer for ¡°Infamy, Infamy!¡± but will be going onto the TFL website later this week Rich has said. You would still need to buy the Infamy card
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John Ewing
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