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| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Wolfgang on July 11, 2021, 11:13:47 pm ---... when the first computer you used expected input in the form of punched cards. 8) --- End quote --- And you used to write your shopping lists and "back of fag packet" designs on the back of used/spare one. Also, made great bookmarks. |
| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---back of fag packet" designs on the back of used/spare one --- End quote --- AKA Fagcad Also cigarette papers were an essential to tuning your motor bike,no need for expensive feeler gauges, adjust the points until a paper just dragged across the gap |
| tpowell1830:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 12, 2021, 01:55:41 pm --- --- Quote from: Wolfgang on July 11, 2021, 11:13:47 pm ---... when the first computer you used expected input in the form of punched cards. 8) --- End quote --- And you used to write your shopping lists and "back of fag packet" designs on the back of used/spare one. Also, made great bookmarks. --- End quote --- ...and don't forget, the aluminum coated paper on cigarette packages wrapped around a blown fuse in your vehicle would get you home. :palm: (or a chewing gum wrapper) |
| Neilm:
You realise that the space shuttle last launched 10 years ago (last landing 21st) |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: Neilm on July 12, 2021, 06:08:30 pm ---You realise that the space shuttle last launched 10 years ago (last landing 21st) --- End quote --- I'm not old. If Soyuz is still the most advanced way for people to get into orbit, surely it can't be long since I was a kid and heard about the launch of the first one. |
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