howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
4 November 2009
12:0832378you cannot beat service like that, surely the council tax precept to the town council from district should be doubled?
i wonder if they have a spare state of the art high definitition telly knocking around doing nothing?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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4 November 2009
13:0032379Of course that was just a tongue in cheek posting I made there re the Town Council.(Post No 20)
In case anyone gets the wrong end of the stick ...none of it had actually anything to do at all with the yer actual Town Council !!
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,303
4 November 2009
14:3632380It's taken me all morning to get over a shock like that. Far too early in the day for pictures like that Paul!
And me with a heart condition!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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4 November 2009
14:3932381They've also done away with the emergency button Howard. My mother thought it was a retrograde step when she had to dial the number herself, it was much easier to say which number she wanted.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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4 November 2009
16:3032384 lol!! Terry ..I know, I know... subjecting you to such a shock first thing in the morning, well it shouldnt be allowed. I shouldnt have dunnit! Hope you are doing okay all round though despite the picture!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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4 November 2009
18:0532392Well done Big Dave - and Jan for delivering it up all those flights of stairs.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
4 November 2009
18:1632398terry
good to see you back posting, i am having trouble keeping up with all this new fangled technology.
they have now taken the doors off of these boxes so that it is most embarrassing when you use them for their other purpose after the pubs close.
4 November 2009
19:5232402Good old Paul, keeping the VCR tradition alive. Don't laugh - there is a huge number of people out there who prefer their entertainment with retro hardware. Loads still listen to records, many still use video VHS, and there are even an army of people who still like to dabble with old 8-bit micro-computers such as the Commodore 64 (anyone remember that?).
And I proudly include myself in that last category, I love the old C64 despite having a high-tech PS3 attached to a HD 1080p projector!
Paul, don't forget that if ever you need old hardware (including Betamax players - saw one on there tonight) then Ebay is always crammed full of it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
4 November 2009
20:1532404betamax?
i always wondered how foolish the purchasers must have felt when the penny dropped that could not get and videos to match the system.
as for vinyl, i still think that has the best sound, i am not the only one.
there are small shops all over the place that still sell the old 33 LP's.
4 November 2009
20:4932423and in the middle of this crisis my beautiful Philips 30inch wide screen surround sound cathode ray tube tv went chest up last night!
Thanks to a quick call to no3 son who makes such things (?) a new one is on its way to me - only after I asked Linda if I should get it fixed - the reply was quite positive that it had to go to the tip! When I bought it 8 years ago (second hand from a Dover shop!) I carried it in myself - this time she had to help me to the car with it and I had to get help at the tip to unload it -- I suppose that over the years they gather dust and put on weight - just like some of us.....
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
4 November 2009
21:0932424howard,i thought you were a 78 man and not a 33 man.
4 November 2009
21:1332426Yes Rick - I well remember the commodore 64 - spent nights copying sw from tapes then disk drive. my boys were raised on them thus two are in high tech businesses (one is an international figure in freesat technology). All because they spent hours trying to sort out the software when they were under ten. We went on to a commodore PET then apricot XI10 and then our own IBM compatibles ( anyone had a Solitaire PC? ) until the far east compatibles put making PCs a waste of time.
Now when I look at our XP Dells I wonder if we have really come so far since the 10MB icl 8086 with ten terminals running concurrent dos in 1986 as we did from Commodore 64 (?1983) to the ICL. Wordperfect was a super WYSIWYG sw that went on a floppy and did all we do now. Lotus was much better than excel but thats disappeared now.