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[Onlyguessing23]

I remember doing programs on computers with punch cards, 1980. We had a machine to make the punch cards, and you made the program, and put the punch cards in the computer. LOL.

Totally! I learned keypunch in college. And then COBOL. Geez….

 

[Mo Thuairim]

I learned a programming language called COMAL at secondary school. Cannot remember a single thing about it.

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

Or that a printer with ink costs about $40.

When I went to college, the whole college had five printers. In the printer lab. Bring your floppy disk, wait to print. Tear off the perforation thread.

Crazy to think my own life arced from the Atari 2600 to the 286 to a desktop PC, and now our phones hold more data than all of them.

Still, I pity the young fools who don't have to stake their knowledge on an incomplete set of outdated Encyclopedia Britannicas.

We lost our "I" so please don't ask me what know about Ireland, Italy, or Iceland.

Your post reminds me of the issue I had with the Encyclopedia Britannica. Well, it was really the cat who had the issue.

Don't put precious things on the bottom shelf is the lesson I learned.

Before he got his little issue taken care of, Terry Lee sprayed the "S" volume. ("S" is for spray? Could he have been that smart?)

"S" is also for "soured". It soured my enthusiasm for researching space science and supply chain management.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Talk about floppy discs has reminded me of a little job that I never got around to doing.
I destroyed most of the discs I had, the ones that I knew the contents of.

But there were some that I didn't label and meant to look through them, except that for a long time now computers don't come with floppy disc readers. Most don't come with CD readers.

A friend had a USB floppy disc reader that he was going to lend me, but I kept putting it off, one reason was that I moved and had not unpacked and found the discs.
Then my friend passed away.

Since then I've found the discs and possibly on some are family photos that can't be replaced so I don't want to throw them away without checking.

I checked on eBay and you can buy USB floppy drives for about $26 so I think I might get one..

Who knows, the floppy might make a comeback like Vinyl and I read the other day that young people are really getting into cassettes. They want physical media that they can hold in their hands (like we used to)

I think the cassettes should come with a pencil, just saying

 

[Gemmie]

Talk about floppy discs has reminded me of a little job that I never got around to doing.
I destroyed most of the discs I had, the ones that I knew the contents of.

But there were some that I didn't label and meant to look through them, except that for a long time now computers don't come with floppy disc readers. Most don't come with CD readers.

A friend had a USB floppy disc reader that he was going to lend me, but I kept putting it off, one reason was that I moved and had not unpacked and found the discs.
Then my friend passed away.

Since then I've found the discs and possibly on some are family photos that can't be replaced so I don't want to throw them away without checking.

I checked on eBay and you can buy USB floppy drives for about $26 so I think I might get one..

Who knows, the floppy might make a comeback like Vinyl and I read the other day that young people are really getting into cassettes. They want physical media that they can hold in their hands (like we used to)

I think the cassettes should come with a pencil, just saying

That reminds me of a funny story... I needed a new car and wanted one with a cassette player like my old one had. The guy just looked at me like I had 2 heads. They didn't make them anymore, everyone was going to CDs. Sheesh, it's not like I asked for a darn 8-track player in the dash. lol

He was a fleet guy (I'll NEVER buy from a dealer after my fleet experience. Just wow). But he found one. lol Brand new too and everything I had asked for except it came with a scoop on the back of the car that I didn't want to have to pay for but they don't come off so the car came as is. But I had my cassette player!

Now if I could just get a darn true landline and not VoIP.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Just testing because none of the formatting tools on WS work for me anymore so I'm going to get together a list that I can just type in.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

No don't worry Gemmie, I'm just going to hover over other members emoji's and make a list that way.

Since I can't access the list of emoji's and haven't been able to for weeks now.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I did something that ungreyed out the emojis


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[Gemmie]

No don't worry Gemmie, I'm just going to hover over other members emoji's and make a list that way.

Since I can't access the list of emoji's and haven't been able to for weeks now.

I was terrified for you having limited access. I've seen that before.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I seem to have got the emojis working but the other tools like bolding, highliting and changing text size etc are all still greyed out.


Oh wait there it all seems to be working again now.
I just don't know what I did to get it all going again.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I remember this. Me waiting for a lick of the ice block from my big brother.

 

[Gemmie]

I remember this. Me waiting for a lick of the ice block from my big brother.


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SO cute!!

Stupid question.... why were you guys licking an ice block? Just curious as that's not something I've ever done. We want some back story!

 

[TootsieFootsie]

That's how you eat ice blocks. And ice creams.
Licking comes into it.

 

[Gemmie]

That's how you eat ice blocks. And ice creams.
Licking comes into it.

I've never eaten an ice block which is why I was curious about it.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Years ago I noticed a bit of fluff on the bottom of my panasonic phone.
This was before mobiles. I had this phone with handsets in different parts of the house.

One night I noticed that my bedroom one had a little bit of fluff under it, where the four feet were.
I carefully scraped off the fluff, then noticed more fluff on the other corner. I scraped that off too.

I praised myself for a job well done before an unsettling feeling came over me

The set was now crooked.

With a sinking and stupid feeling I turned the phone over slowly only to come to realise just what I had done.

I could see clearly now the two remaining felt pads at the other end.
And saw the teeny remains of the felt feet pads I'd scraped off.

I set to work scraping off the remaining two felt pad feet.

And never told anyone til now

 

[iamshadow21]

I've never eaten an ice block which is why I was curious about it.

Ice block is what Australians call a popsicle.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Thanks @iamshadow21 !

I was thinking that maybe something got lost in the translation.

And I always think that popsicles are like our lollipops

I don't always think that they're like our ice blocks, or other names they're known by, ice confection, water ice etc

Icy Poles was another name that became generic in Australia in the past.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Thanks @iamshadow21 !

I was thinking that maybe something got lost in the translation.

And I always think that popsicles are like our lollipops

I don't always think that they're like our ice blocks, or other names they're known by, ice confection, water ice etc

Icy Poles was another name that became generic in Australia in the past.

I was so confused when I first lived in Australia that adults would often offer me lollies. That's short for a lollipop for us and only children would would eat them. After a while I twigged that lollies are any kind of sweets, or what Americans would call candy. Lol I must have looked so rude in the beginning just staring in a confused way at anyone who asked me if I wanted a lolly.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Frozen ice confection is another name.

They're just frozen treats on a stick. Ice blocks to Australians.

Or Icy Poles in some areas of Australia.

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Frozen ice confection is another name.

They're just frozen treats on a stick. Ice blocks to Australians.

Or Icy Poles in some areas of Australia.

We call them ice lollies