Tut, that watch was naff in the 70's, just as it is now (though the smartphone boys seem to think these things are cool once more ... they are wrong).
Cheers,
Robin
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Slide rule ... never used one .... we did have log tables at school, but calculators were already in vogue and so no need to use them . My first calculator was a TI 50-something (55, 57?) programmable calculator. It was also awesome, but in a different way from the sheer madness of the fixed-point reverse-polish Sinclair ... If you knew what you were doing you could flick the power switch on/off fast enough to glitch the "cpu" in the calculator and get into the "hidden" memory
Tut, that watch was naff in the 70's, just as it is now (though the smartphone boys seem to think these things are cool once more ... they are wrong).
Cheers,
Robin
Tut, that watch was naff in the 70's, just as it is now (though the smartphone boys seem to think these things are cool once more ... they are wrong).
Cheers,
Robin
I is in your loomz nibblin ur wirez
#bemoretut
#bemoretut
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No, it wasn't around when I went to school either.tut wrote:Am I the only one that had no aids when at school?
Came a bit later after someone buggered a monkey or something.
Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow ...
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We had one kid with HIV from a blood transfusion. But no aids.
/gets coat
/gets coat
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It came on the scene (remember the "Don't Die of Ignorance" ads?) towards the end of my secondary schooling...Eric K wrote:No, it wasn't around when I went to school either.tut wrote:Am I the only one that had no aids when at school?
Came a bit later after someone buggered a monkey or something.
Why isn't it still as heavily publicised?
Seems the focus is on less serious (but undoubtedly more prevalent) STDs
Ross
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2004 Bentley Conti GT
2017 Schkoda Yeti
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We learnt to use log tables before moving on to calculators.
The calcs of choice were either a Texas Ti30 (IIRC) or Casio 'whatever'. The Texas being the school's recommended. After writing 60436034, 5318008, 7730017, etc... I remember we had 69 factorial (69!) races - and the Texas took some 6s whereas the Casios about 1s.
Us kids were easily entertained in the early 80s!
The calcs of choice were either a Texas Ti30 (IIRC) or Casio 'whatever'. The Texas being the school's recommended. After writing 60436034, 5318008, 7730017, etc... I remember we had 69 factorial (69!) races - and the Texas took some 6s whereas the Casios about 1s.
Us kids were easily entertained in the early 80s!
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Brilliant Niz, made me LOL 
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2000 Elise S1 Sport 160
2004 Bentley Conti GT
2017 Schkoda Yeti
2x Hairy GRs (not Toyota)
Now browsing the tech pages
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BiggestNizzy wrote:http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... on-1009701
It's people like this dragging us down.
Really????!!!! FFS ... does not surprise me that much I suppose. Where's Darwin when you need him?
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Unbelievable
"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.
Even funnier that the woman in the shop was as thick as she thought she had won too
"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.
Even funnier that the woman in the shop was as thick as she thought she had won too
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