And we didn't have fancy stuff like calculators either, we had to count things up on our fingers... if we wanted to do subtractions we had to have fingers amputated.
Maria. -----Original Message----- From: Martin Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no> Date: 14 November 1999 08:20 Subject: Re: Wincoupe Robert Wilkinson wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no> > Date: 14 November 1999 07:13 > Subject: Re: Wincoupe > > >> >Robert Wilkinson wrote: > > >> My machines a 166 pentium. > > >> > > >> Wincoupe needs a faster machine than this > >> > > > Martin Wilson Wrote > > >Cor somepeople don't know they're born. I'm only using a Amstrad 386 system > with > >built in megadrive and I'm happy to have it. Fast enough for email and a > bit of > >browsing. 4MEG is ample. 166 indeed thats a bloomin powerhouse of a > computer. > >They don't know there born nowadays. I remember when you could get into the > >cinema, a few pints of beer and a 3 course meal for less than half a > crown..... > > > > > Up until 18 months ago I was using a 286, 16 Mhz, 4Mbs Ram, 40Mbs hard > drive. > > I couldn't afford an all singing all dancing machine. I visited sunday boot > sales. > Picked up a cheap motherboard here, a proccessor there, etc,etc. > My machine cost less than £100.00. It can be done. It is also slow by todays > standards. > > And I also remenber those days, plus taking ration books to the shop for my > mum. > > Bob Wilkinson. (getting cranky) Car boots I went to one of them but I found the field too bumpy for my penny farthing so turned back. when I got home me and the family got round the old piano. Apples and pears... apples and pears. Them were the days. It was all fields back then.
