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| Brumby:
... and Czechoslovakia :palm: |
| Brumby:
When you used: - an IBM 082 card sorter - regularly - IBM 3348 Data Modules - which weighed a few kgs each (and reminded me of the starship Enterprise). We had the higher capacity ones that were 70MB each! - the only screen which was the main operator console - punched cards for everything at your first full time job |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: BradC on July 27, 2021, 12:42:54 am --- --- Quote from: ozcar on July 25, 2021, 06:50:26 pm ---but then one open his case and takes out a telephone handset and says “hello”. After a short delay, he hands it to his companion, and says “It’s for you”. --- End quote --- When I first got my license we built a battery powered supply to ring a standard "bell ringer" phone (STC "princess" from memory) and we used to do that at traffic lights. Phone would ring, wait for odd look from the next car over then "answer" the phone and wind the window down, then hold the handset out with an "it's for you". I'd forgotten about that. --- End quote --- One of my mates went one better---he mounted the phone under the bonnet ("hood) of his old Valiant. He liked to do this with an accomplice. He would stop at a set of lights with a busy flow of pedestrians, his mate would be crossing when the phone rang, & would pop the bonnet open, pull out the phone, "listen" for a couple of seconds, then hold it out, saying "It's for you!" |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on July 27, 2021, 02:13:24 am ---you know were Yugoslavi,bombay,peking,saigon,ceylon and burma are. --- End quote --- If you go to Saigon many of the signs still refer to it as Saigon, although its often using the Chinese characters 西貢. |
| themadhippy:
From what i recall Ho Chi Minh is the entire city whilst Saigon is only the central part.Bit like New York and Manhattan i suppose |
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