spacesailor Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 new food problem . Now it appears we have a huge increase in '' childhood autism " . That has the finger pointing at plastic . (Common plastic additive BPA ). spacesailor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Is it really a huge increase, or just better labelling? Maybe in the old days they were just the "bad kids" in class and there wasn't a word for it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 I feel sorry for the kids who do not have any physical or mental disabilities. It must be horrible to be scorned by the rest of the school population as a minority. OK. Not PC but wasn't meant to offend. It was a joke, Joyce! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Diet COKE is suss. I grew up during WW2, The food was generally Mums Custard Powder and Jam Rolls. Several of mY Cousins were diagnosed with Malnutrition. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Dunno if the One above is a repeat. Historical whinges of the PAST. We are the ONLY people in the street without a TV Now it's I'm the only kid in the street who's Parents are not getting divorced. Owner of Chinese Restaurant, Depressed almost to the Point of suicide. MY house is the SMALLEST in the entire street. Angry and Jealous friends in the Suburbs. "Oh WE have a new CAR, have WE"? Rob a Bank or something? Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 I was so tired on April 1. It was like I'd just finished a 31 day march. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Q: Why was 10 afraid of 7? A: Because 7, 8, 9. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 When I moved into my igloo, my friends threw me a housewarming party. Now I'm homeless. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 A guy was creating a new password. He was told it had to have eight characters and one capital. His password was MickeyMinnieGoofyDonaldDaisyHueyDeweyLouieDublin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 I launched a book aimed at 9-12 year olds and I'm proud to say that I managed to hit one of the little shits. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 Research has found that most women are satisfied with 3.5 inches. Doesn't matter whether it's Mastercard, Visa or American Express. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Is there something you can take for this? Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Do you remember having a 3.5 inch floppy disk? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 There's still a lot of 3.5 in floppies around. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 They became " Super disk " 250 mb . I have a collection of disk's. 5.25. Less than 2 mg 3.5 . That windows & Dos came on. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 space. I think those naughty men might be being RUDE. Nev 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Thanks . F H, We're was that little. . LoL A disk is a disk . spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Able to be discussed as can a Discus,. Carry On. Most of us do at times. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 How things change! The first storage devices were similar in size to a LP record. Then we got 5-1/2' floppies, which were replaced by 3-1/4" floppies in a hard case. Then we got CDs and USB drives. And now it's all in the Cloud. Twelve years ago, my wife had some professional photos done of our grandson and they were delivered on a CD. I gave it to my son yesterday and he said that he could not access them because none of his computers had a CD drive. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 This is a photo of an early IBM 5Mb hard drive being loaded onto an aircraft. That's right...5 megabytes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintonB Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 4 hours ago, old man emu said: How things change! The first storage devices were similar in size to a LP record. Then we got 5-1/2' floppies, which were replaced by 3-1/4" floppies in a hard case. Then we got CDs and USB drives. And now it's all in the Cloud. Twelve years ago, my wife had some professional photos done of our grandson and they were delivered on a CD. I gave it to my son yesterday and he said that he could not access them because none of his computers had a CD drive. A disc came with my new printer I’ve just set up, if your computer is old enough to have a drive, it might not be working all that well now, with the built in made to die functions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 You WILL be DONE. Of that you can be sure. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 Now you've got to buy CD/DVD drives as a USB accessory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 (edited) When I worked for AV Jennings, this was the system I worked on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_30 They decomissioned it not long after I left (can't remember how long I was there - maybe a year or so).. As I recall, there was a tall filing cabinet sized disk, which held a whopping 64mb - or maybe it was 128.. it was some time ago. Gigabytes were not for those However, while that was the oldest system I used (had core memory which where like ferris doughnuts), the fiirst system I worked on that got my career started was a Prime 750 (last photo here): https://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/icf/mums/p014.htm That big box to the left is a line printer - oh the fun we had with thise thinhs... The phot above shows the removable disk drives we used - they were a whole 300mb each... And they were heavy. The latest in the lineup I used was a 9955 Mod II here: https://www.banjohangout.org/photo/71150 Their downfall was they claimed they had a 64 bit system,. but it was really 32 bits... they just moved two "words" (32 bits) at a time to make the operating system think it was 64 bits.. Of all the systems I worked on, I still preferred the Primos operating system the most. Rock solid, easy to use, and super flexible in programming.. Apols for the thread drift... Here is a corny joke to make up for it: Why is Cinderella so bad at football? She keeps running away from the ball. Edited April 8 by Jerry_Atrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 Here's a dirty Joke, The school bully tripped in the gutter. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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