Huh! Call that hardship, lad? Ney, t'were pure luxury. Back in the 1700s we had major problems with power supply during the summer months for our water powered logical gates in the Monastry of Mathmatics in Couterbury Cathedral ....
E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Rowson Sent: 12 November 2007 17:53 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane,was: Please can someone look at this and try to help > Ian Pascoe wrote: > > Well I cut my teeth on a Model B and the first major enhancement I did to it > > was .... to add a 5.25" floppy drive. > Mmm, not sure I should confess to this in a public forum but: > I also started on a Beeb, had to install the floppy-disc interface one > chip at a time and installed a word-processor on a ROM (there's flash!). > No hard drive then! > And all that 32K of RAM!!! such luxury. > Eddie > Meh lightweights.... My first forage into computing in the 1800's was much more hardcore. You don't know you're born! I would often be called to the analytical machine late at night, because a tiny misalignment of a brass cog had caused it to render an ascii image of her majesty incorrectly (thus greatly angering subscribers of the then pigeon powered t'internet.....). Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/