On 23-12-2014 15:43, Francois Labreque wrote:
> I don't believe a single bit of it.  You're just pulling our leg.  Next
> thing you're going to tell us you had to stand up and walk to the tv to
> change the channel!
>
> Sheesh! old folks with their made up stories to make us feel bad!

Ha! My lad! What do you know! I remember the days we had radio's with 
glowing lamps inside! And you had to turn a dial until - through the 
static - you could hear a /voice/ talking! /Music/ sometimes!

That was before we had television even... And they told wild tales of 
the past in those days too: about people taking a Hansom cab to get 
places, and horse-drawn tramways... phew!

THomas

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Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> I don't believe a single bit of it.  You're just pulling our leg.  Next 
> thing you're going to tell us you had to stand up and walk to the tv to 
> change the channel!

> Sheesh! old folks with their made up stories to make us feel bad!

I have heard stories that in antiquity you had to buy games in these
square-shaped disks. Square shaped disks! That doesn't make any sense.
That's like saying that wheels are square.

And seemingly they could only hold like a megabyte or so of data. Can
you believe that? That couldn't hold even one single HD jpeg image,
and that was supposed to hold an entire game? Hah.

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                                                          - Warp

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On 23/12/2014 08:33 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Now, I really am feeling old! I realise that whole generations are
> living now who do /not/ know what a typewriter looks like nor how it
> worked. Incredible and sad but that is progress ;-)

For what it's worth, my parents had a typewriter. They never *used* it 
for anything (as far as I can tell), but my sister and I had endless fun 
playing with it.

...fun, that is, until you make a mistake. For typewriters offer no way 
of correcting a mistake, other than to retype the entire page from scratch.

Now that I think about it, it's kind of odd that I spent so much time 
playing with a typewriter, given that I hadn't learned to read or write 
yet...

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Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> ...fun, that is, until you make a mistake. For typewriters offer no way 
> of correcting a mistake, other than to retype the entire page from scratch.

Sheesh, kids these days. You used correction fluid or correction tape
to white out the mistake, and re-typed it over.

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On 23/12/2014 22:12, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> ...fun, that is, until you make a mistake. For typewriters offer no way
>> of correcting a mistake, other than to retype the entire page from scratch.
>
> Sheesh, kids these days. You used correction fluid or correction tape
> to white out the mistake, and re-typed it over.
>

Don't tell him that. He needed the practice. ;-)

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     Stephen

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:23:57 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2014 22:12, Warp wrote:
>> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> ...fun, that is, until you make a mistake. For typewriters offer no
>>> way of correcting a mistake, other than to retype the entire page from
>>> scratch.
>>
>> Sheesh, kids these days. You used correction fluid or correction tape
>> to white out the mistake, and re-typed it over.
>>
>>
> Don't tell him that. He needed the practice. ;-)

The phrase "the gift that keeps on giving" comes to mind. ;)

Jim



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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On 23-12-2014 17:04, Warp wrote:
> Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>> I don't believe a single bit of it.  You're just pulling our leg.  Next
>> thing you're going to tell us you had to stand up and walk to the tv to
>> change the channel!
>
>> Sheesh! old folks with their made up stories to make us feel bad!
>
> I have heard stories that in antiquity you had to buy games in these
> square-shaped disks. Square shaped disks! That doesn't make any sense.
> That's like saying that wheels are square.
>
> And seemingly they could only hold like a megabyte or so of data. Can
> you believe that? That couldn't hold even one single HD jpeg image,
> and that was supposed to hold an entire game? Hah.
>

Well, the data were wood and/or cardboard so the megabyte was rapidly 
filled up.

Thomas

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