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.
9 May 2025
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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!
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I can hear my modem dialling up as we speak. Championship Manager 97/98 is firing up on MS Dos...
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Compuserve are on the line. Your account is in arrears....
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We were ahead of the curve with Demon Internet at our student gaff.
And Netscape was was the browser of choice.
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I'll raise you kevintoms.games/
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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.
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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.
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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When I left after my first degree, I inherited the physics departments old PDP-11 (it had been replaced by PC's at that point...largely Amstrads).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.
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My dad bought an Olivetti PC. I used it to make fake IDs.
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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
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Sales.
Accountancy.
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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.
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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.
