Tashar59 opened this issue on Feb 15, 2004 ยท 57 posts
maclean posted Sun, 15 February 2004 at 3:04 PM
"Luxury! Now, we had it really tough... We used to have to get out of the paper bag at 2 o'clock in the morning, clean the paper bag and lick road clean wit tongue! We used to have to go down t'mill, work 27 hours for 3/2d every four years.... and when we got home our mum and dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah'!!" ROTF. Sorry..... I couln't help it!! Seriously.... (and I really mean this sincerely, folks!) Ahem..... er... where was I. Oh yes, first computer was made of bamboo and rice-paper, had a huge 8 smegs of RAM and a teacup for a floppy drive, used enough electricity to power a small 3rd world country, and could only be programmed by climbing inside and banging on vacuum tubes with a hammer.... mac