Impressive guess (for me anyway... Not so much Keynes!)
IT Jobs..
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Impressive guess (for me anyway... Not so much Keynes!)
I know I started this thread and I was interested in jobs.. but ermm.....
SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLEASE
SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLEASE
The chocolate IS decreasing in size by one piece, but not noticeably. It's physically not possible any other way
Im glad you cleared that one up...!
So hows working in the IT Crowd..?
GeorgeHillier
Prolific Poster
I'm studying Computer Science with a year in industry. Hoping to do something programming related after
keynes
Multiverse Poster
Don't forget our staff meeting starts at 8:30am on Monday.
DeadEyeDuk
Superhero Level Poster
I love working with so many people that don't understand that joke. I've lost count the number of times someone either rings or I am in their office and I tell them to "turn it off and on again". I giggle inside and they sit there with a blank expression, until it fixes the problem and I am suddenly some kind of wizard
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
I love working with so many people that don't understand that joke. I've lost count the number of times someone either rings or I am in their office and I tell them to "turn it off and on again". I giggle inside and they sit there with a blank expression, until it fixes the problem and I am suddenly some kind of wizard
I have a tee-shirt that says "Keep Calm and Reboot".
GeorgeHillier
Prolific Poster
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
For a bit of balance I'm at the other end of the working life. I'm retired from over 30 years working with computers. I started with a 4-bit microprocessor with 256 bytes of RAM, since then I've worked with microcomputers, PCs, minicomputers, LANs, TCP/IP, distributed systems, and large IBM mainframes. I've been lucky to work on lots of stuff and I've watched the personal computer revolution as it happened. Exciting times....
..... and the years seem to go by with ever increasing rapidity. The 3 score years and 10 have long gone and I am now in overtime.
ubuysa, isn't it time for your annual sail on the med to pick up a few migrants?
BTW the last time I saw 'keep calm and reboot' was in a shoe shop.
mantadog
Superhero Level Poster
My first computer had 128MB RAM.
But I have got 2 of these on the way (1 is a devkit) with 2.5KB RAM and I look forward to making games for them
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903888394/arduboy-card-sized-gaming/description
But I have got 2 of these on the way (1 is a devkit) with 2.5KB RAM and I look forward to making games for them
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903888394/arduboy-card-sized-gaming/description
My first home computer was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1KB ram.
I got the 16KB ram pack which suffered from "ram pack wobble" which would reset the computer if you weren't careful.
The thing I remember most about it was that it had standard and fast mode - in fast mode the display was blanked to speed up processing. So for graphically complex games like 3D Monster Maze the screen would blank when you pressed a movement key while it calculated the graphics and then flash back on after some seconds then wait for your next key press.
Can't fit an email in 1KB now
I got the 16KB ram pack which suffered from "ram pack wobble" which would reset the computer if you weren't careful.
The thing I remember most about it was that it had standard and fast mode - in fast mode the display was blanked to speed up processing. So for graphically complex games like 3D Monster Maze the screen would blank when you pressed a movement key while it calculated the graphics and then flash back on after some seconds then wait for your next key press.
Can't fit an email in 1KB now
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ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
Dogbot, please don't mention my boat and migrants in the same sentence, it's actually a very worrying subject for sailors in this part of the world. Some people I know saw a migrant boat south of Sicily and called the Italian coastguard to get them some assistance. They immediately began to chase my friends for giving away their position. A 40-foot sailboat only does 8 knots at best and it was nearly 3 hours later before the migrant boat gave up the chase.
In the days before PCs and standard OS's (like MSDOS and then Windows) every microcomputer has it's own OS burned into an EPROM on the mainboard. So in those days just getting two different computers to talk to each other was a challenge!
In the days before PCs and standard OS's (like MSDOS and then Windows) every microcomputer has it's own OS burned into an EPROM on the mainboard. So in those days just getting two different computers to talk to each other was a challenge!
That does sound somewhat similar to the plot of a recent Tom Hanks movie.