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    Use Windows 8.1 like Win 7

    in Science and Technology

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    Others, i can remember getting my first what you could refer to as a PC (portable computer)...it was called a Kaypro 64. The lid of the box came off which was the keyboard, it had for memory a 6" amber screen and twin 5.25" floppies. It was the big banger in the day running cpm and cost just over $2,250 33 years ago

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

     

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    Use Windows 8.1 like Win 7

    in Science and Technology

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    And BASIC. How I miss programming in BASIC on my 1985 Amstrad with the green screen and tape drive. If I could have looked forward 30 years and seen what was possible with PC's, it would have seemed like magic. Imagine the next 30...

    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.

     

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    Use Windows 8.1 like Win 7

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    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.

     

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    Spelling

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    The rate of discovery is mind bending. ( Unprecedented in history) We have the opportunity to understand ourselves better than ever thought possible.. Nev

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

     

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    Backup

    in Science and Technology

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    ... £80.00 per megabyte of recovered data. . . . .Phil

    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!

     

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    Risk of Dying today ?

    in General Discussion

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    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.

     

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    Small flying insects & flies

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    I had a similar thing happen last week while driving. Stopped at the lights and a fly landed on the windscreen and wandered about. I expected him to be blown off when I moved but NO-- the little bugger just turned to face the wind and stuck there while I did 85kmh! Happened every time I stopped.

    Maybe you need to clean the windscreen? spacer.png

     

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    Who's working for themselves

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    Alan bond is pretty good at making something from nothing!!!

    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.

     

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