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Test run on 11/08/2014 @ 08:52 PM Mirror: iiNet Data: 1 MB Test Time: 10 secs Your line speed is 1.23 Mbps (1234 kbps). Your download speed is 154 KB/s (0.15 MB/s). rgmwa

Hey, that was my first computer too. They were early versions of portables, more accurately described as luggables. rgmwa

Yes, but they would have only been about four at the time. rgmwa

You haven't lived until you've punched cards with a manual hole punch. rgmwa

CP/M....floppies..... CRT.... Ah those were the days - brings tears my eyes... rgmwa

The first PC I ever had access to was a Tandy TRS80 that our engineering firm bought. It had a 2.1Mhz 8 bit CPU, 2x87MB floppy drives and 32k of useable RAM after the Basic Interpreter was loaded. Very exciting!! There wasn't really any engineering software around in those days (or much else) so a few of us jumped in and started writing our own. Great fun! I quickly moved on to my most serious project - exploiting this vast computing power to improve my chances of predicting next week's Lotto numbers. However despite a valiant effort, I eventually had to admit that the complex multi-variable algorithm I developed after exhaustive analysis of previous winning results wasn't quite up to scratch. Sadly, I had no alternative but to keep working. rgmwa

Doesn't sound very hopeful does it. That wouldn't be April 1, 2015 would it? rgmwa

It seems to me that Windows more or less peaked with XP and progress has all been downhill from there. More complicated, fatter and less intuitive to use. Some should tell Microsoft that perfection is the enemy of good enough, but I guess that won't keep them in business. rgmwa

I have a recipe for gunpowder and some ideas for a release mechanism if that would be useful. rgmwa

Yep, I've evolved to understand myself perfectly well. On the other hand, my wife is a mystery. rgmwa

I'm in the wrong business. Work out the cost of recovering a 500 Gig drive. You'd need to be in the mafia to afford it! rgmwa

First I couldn't see them, but now thanks to Sloper's helpful links, I can't get them off my screen. Ian's money counter must be going into overdrive. rgmwa

Let me know if she comes back. I missed it all as usual. rgmwa

Actions currently under consideration depending on who wins: Gillard: leave home Rudd: leave country Abbott: leave planet rgmwa

Don't blame you. Those bowls must weigh a ton! rgmwa

I recently read somewhere that for the same distance travelled, taking a commercial flight is about 7 times safer than driving a car, while flying a light aircraft is about 7 times more dangerous than driving. Don't know if it's true ot not, but it sounds plausible. rgmwa

Maybe you need to clean the windscreen? rgmwa

And he went to jail for it too. Then took up lecturing to the inmates on financial planning as a sideline while he was there. Eventually left prison in a Merc when they let him out to start all over again. He did win us the Americas Cup though (even if it was with OPM - other people's money), so I suppose he must have been OK. I shared a lift with him once in our building. Didn't do me any good, though - I'm still working. rgmwa

Looks real good to me! rgmwa