Poor big T. I shall lend him some tape if I see him.
The current state of officiating is catastrophically inept. By accident, or by design, is the only real debate.
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A Yahoo link!
Genuinely thought they’d long gone.
Got anything from AOL?On Times website too, says he had an abdominal operation on a "serious injury".
Just as Yahoo did!
I can hear my modem dialling up as we speak. Championship Manager 97/98 is firing up on MS Dos...
Compuserve are on the line. Your account is in arrears....
We were ahead of the curve with Demon Internet at our student gaff.
And Netscape was was the browser of choice.
I'll raise you kevintoms.games/
You youngsters with your modern fangled technology. I didn’t even see a computer during my student days (did drop some punch cards into a box on a few occasions but they always came back with comments like “missing a comma on line 72” or something).
Then when I started working we were taken to look at the computer guys loading tape reels behind a glass wall. A few months later the front page of the local paper had a story about the largest crane on the south coast being used to install a new server.
I worked on the launch ad campaign for one of the first ranges of office personal computers in the early 80s, for Olivetti. Then the agency I worked for actually went and bought a word processor which sat in its own sealed glass cubicle. Nobody knew how to operate it apart from one specially trained secretary. Yes, I also remember when secretaries existed.
I moved to Demon after compuserve. I was on Demon when we started the talkback journey.
I fondly* remember writing programs in fortran on punch cards.
When I left after my first degree, I inherited the physics departments old PDP-11 (it had been replaced by PC's at that point...largely Amstrads). It came complete with whirry tape drives, floppy drive (single side, 8") unit, and punched tape terminals. I set it up in a double garage, got it working, then threw it away.
I remember the time I saw my first Osborne 1. Witchcraft.
* Lie.
My dad bought an Olivetti PC. I used it to make fake IDs.
My Dad had a PET computer to do payroll - I remember it was bloody expensive at the time.
I never committed a crime on it
Sales.
Accountancy.
If there was a CM 97/98 version of this, I'd be bang in trouble. Lost hours and hours to that game in my youth - fucking loved it.
I realised that I bought it years ago on a previous laptop and had forgotten about it. So I donwloaded it and played for a while. Found myself watching the stick figures meandering about and muttering 'defends like Morato, finishes like Taiwo'.
We always had computers in the house because of Dad. Being a high school deputy head it was more educational than nerd with him, but I remember having a ZX81, a Spectrum* and then a BBC something or other with the enormous external disc drive and accompanying ribbon. Once Dad spent ages typing in the programming from a computer magazine for a golf game on the Spectrum. He then test played it, pressed <n> when asked if he wanted to play again, then watched the computer wipe his unsaved programming. He worked out that he must've typed something like if <reply>='n' then NEW rather than STOP, as they were the same key differentiated by SHIFT. He didn't bother doing it again.*old joke alert - at school I used to be on the spectrum, then I bought a better computer.
