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Dog Star said:
I did my degree in Computer Science and French from '87 to '91 at North Staffs Poly. We did Cobol and Pascal on Vax Minis and there was, during the day a limit on how much time you could have on the machines.
So we had the option of submitting them on paper and having little old ladies - "data prep" - typing them in for us.
We soon learned that this was a Bad Idea (tm) as it took longer to debug all their typos to get the programs to compile than it would have done to do it ourselves. Good for test data though, as you'd give them stuff and they'd put errors in it.
I was a couple of years ahead of you, splitting my time between Blackheath Lane and Beaconside, when not drinking in the Bird.So we had the option of submitting them on paper and having little old ladies - "data prep" - typing them in for us.
We soon learned that this was a Bad Idea (tm) as it took longer to debug all their typos to get the programs to compile than it would have done to do it ourselves. Good for test data though, as you'd give them stuff and they'd put errors in it.
We had access to the 8800, but they did make us work on C-CPM and Pascal on the ICL.
Fer said:
I was a couple of years ahead of you, splitting my time between Blackheath Lane and Beaconside, when not drinking in the Bird.
We had access to the 8800, but they did make us work on C-CPM and Pascal on the ICL.
I ended up going out for several years with the ops manager in charge of that 8800; very very big blonde with MASSIVE (and I do mean massive) norks. Always wore really posh high heels.We had access to the 8800, but they did make us work on C-CPM and Pascal on the ICL.
king master system!!! 
Dog Star said:
Fer said:
I was a couple of years ahead of you, splitting my time between Blackheath Lane and Beaconside, when not drinking in the Bird.
We had access to the 8800, but they did make us work on C-CPM and Pascal on the ICL.
I ended up going out for several years with the ops manager in charge of that 8800; very very big blonde with MASSIVE (and I do mean massive) norks. Always wore really posh high heels.We had access to the 8800, but they did make us work on C-CPM and Pascal on the ICL.
You know you want to submit this
nigelpugh7 said:
RDJ said:
My dad had the 506. He would fish for tench with it using a 2lb trace and size 18 hook. I was amazed at the size of some of the fish he managed to get to the landing net with such light tackle (ready for me to lose)!
My reel progression was Intrepid Black Prince, Intrepid Deluxe, then on to Woolworth's 'modern' ball race reel (branded as Winfield).
Edited by RDJ on Wednesday 7th May 09:21
RDJ said:
Very clever reel the little 501
My dad had the 506. He would fish for tench with it using a 2lb trace and size 18 hook. I was amazed at the size of some of the fish he managed to get to the landing net with such light tackle (ready for me to lose)!
My reel progression was Intrepid Black Prince, Intrepid Deluxe, then on to Woolworth's 'modern' ball race reel (branded as Winfield).
Excellent! We used to fish pretty light too, I think we used to mostly catch larger Perch, they were always damn good little fighters!
These days II have moved more into Fly Fishing,,again with a load of old stuff from my dear old dad's days, I have some lovely split cane fly rods too, not sure of how old they are, but they are treasured all the same, now my a Dad is no longer here.
My dad had the 506. He would fish for tench with it using a 2lb trace and size 18 hook. I was amazed at the size of some of the fish he managed to get to the landing net with such light tackle (ready for me to lose)!
My reel progression was Intrepid Black Prince, Intrepid Deluxe, then on to Woolworth's 'modern' ball race reel (branded as Winfield).
Excellent! We used to fish pretty light too, I think we used to mostly catch larger Perch, they were always damn good little fighters!
These days II have moved more into Fly Fishing,,again with a load of old stuff from my dear old dad's days, I have some lovely split cane fly rods too, not sure of how old they are, but they are treasured all the same, now my a Dad is no longer here.
Edited by RDJ on Wednesday 7th May 09:21
Dog Star said:
TheExcession said:
ope, but I do remember using an aluminium snooker cue case to open the Exit Barrier to the VIP parking area at a well known pharmaceutical company based in Cheshire.
It saved us ages of driving around looking for a place to park the car before clocking in.
Alderley Park? My OH is a toxicologist and worked there for about 20 years.It saved us ages of driving around looking for a place to park the car before clocking in.
I was pharmacokinetics/instrumentation (Block 14 and later Block 24, tell her - that'll bring back memories for them - my old man had a lab in Block 19 just up from Tom McKillop!).Taking a 'Kimi' on overtime at the weekend was a great favourite, sat on the bog watching the clock tick by thinking 1 pence, 2 pence, 3 pence each second... and finally that's a beer in the bank! Never have I had it so miserably easy!
Edited by TheExcession on Wednesday 7th May 14:35
Fer said:
Whilst we are looking at old computing. I have on my desk a copy of MS Windows on 5 1/4. A "special offer", including free copies of MS Windows Write and Paint.
I should warn you it does require Dos 2.0 and 256k of memory.
I remember MS Office coming on 32 floppies I should warn you it does require Dos 2.0 and 256k of memory.
and without fail it would crap out on about number 27. It would take a day to install. Utter misery. RDJ said:
It's great to see that the simple things never die out regardless of the relentless march of technology pervading every corner of our lives.
GTIR said:
nigelpugh7 said:
GTIR said:
My parents could not afford to buy me one back in the day!!
So we made the nosies ourselves!! ( cringing with shame!!)
I'm buying two for my twins bikes!
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