<p>Ahh... them were the days...</p><p>Running in to Dixons/Comet, going to the
C64's and doing the old:<br />10 PRINT "DIXONS SUCK!"<br />20 GO TO
10<br />... then bolt and watch the 'assistants' panic.</p><p>A few years ago
the stock taker in my work still use an old ancient 'laptop' I use the term
'laptop' loosely as this thing was as big and thick as a suitcase! He was using
a stock taking program that was written in Cobol, wasn't even compiled or
anything, the file he used to 'start' it was actually a batch file to compile
and run it! He even had to use old dot matrix printers with the condensed
switch enabled to get the wide Cobol page onto the paper!</p><p>I nearly wet
myself laughing when I saw his set up and this was only about five years ago! I
managed to get his Cobol app onto a modern laptop and he was all happy.</p><p>In
fact, I think I still have my first 486 CPU chip at home, an AMD DX100 I think
it was...</p><p>Eee... I remember when this were all fields lad... :D</p><p
/><p /><p>Quoting Alan Pope <alan@popey.com>:<br /><br />><br />>
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:36 +0000, Sean Miller wrote:<br />><br />><br
/>>> These youngsters, eh? When I started in IT greenscreen was
cutting<br />>> edge, lol ;-)<br />>><br />><br />> My first
PC had a mono green text only MDA "video card". I had to<br />>
_upgrade_ to a Hercules graphics card.<br />><br />> <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_Display_Adapter"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_Display_Adapter</a><br
/>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card</a><br
/>><br />> Those were the days..<br />><br />> It were all trees
round here you know..<br />><br />> Cheers,<br />> Al.<br />><br
/>><br /></p>